The Romantic Night in Italy’s Most Beautiful Villages
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The Romantic Night in Italy’s Most Beautiful Villages (La Notte Romantica nei Borghi più Belli d’Italia) is an annual event that celebrates love and beauty in Italy’s charming historic villages. Organized by the association I Borghi più Belli d’Italia, this event is held on the Saturday following the summer solstice, transforming the historic centers into enchanting settings illuminated by candles, soft lights, and magical atmospheres.
During the evening, squares and narrow streets fill with live shows, concerts, dances, artistic performances, and tastings of typical local products. Restaurants offer special “Romantic Menus,” designed to enhance the local flavors with a refined touch.
On Saturday, June 24th, the first weekend after the summer solstice, and following a “Fairytale Valentine’s,” the romantic atmospheres and musical candlelight walks return to Morro d’Alba. The village is preparing to host its first edition of the Romantic Night, the National event of The Most Beautiful Villages of Italy Club, which in previous years has drawn an average of one million visitors to the network’s villages.
In the land of Lacrima wine, many events will revolve around wine. There will be tastings in the square guided by sommeliers from the AIS Marche Jesi and Castelli Delegation, and aperitifs in bars, restaurants, pizzerias, and even in the winery. Most importantly, Lacrima will certainly be the wine accompanying dinner in the village’s restaurants, where it will enhance the aromas and flavors of the best Marche cuisine.
The rich program offered in Morro d’Alba will begin in the morning with a musical walk along the ‘La Scarpa’ rampart walk, an architectural structure unique in Europe, from which it is possible to admire the Marche countryside from the Sibilline Mountains to the Adriatic Sea and Mount Conero.
Throughout the day, every activity in the village will be dressed in love, welcoming customers and tourists. The friendliness of Morro D’Alba will be represented by its merchants: love is every day, toujour, in everything we do.
The free guided tour to discover the village, a journey through culture and tradition, could not be missed. For this event, the fascinating evening atmosphere will frame the discovery of the secrets of the rampart walk, the mysterious castle underground areas, amidst anecdotes and legends to reveal the soul of Morro d’Alba. (Booking is mandatory at 328 5487491).
For this occasion, the underground areas of the Utensilia Museum, which house a curated collection of tools from sharecropping culture and the exhibition of the Master Photographer Mario Giacomelli, will be open exceptionally at night.
After sunset, the village lights will be turned off, illuminating itself with Love. Music and a romantic atmosphere will characterize the walk along “La Scarpa” by candlelight.
7:00 PM: Sunset concert “unplugged” duo Irene Piazzai (harp), H. Domenico Durante (violin), with a final toast in the romantic Teodorico Tower (Torrione Teodorico) (La Scarpa Rampart Walk). Free admission.
10:00 PM: Amarcord Napoli Concert in Piazza Barcaroli
Valeria Lombardi (Soprano), Salvatore Moscogiuri (Piano)
Free admission.
At midnight, in this charming setting, lovers will exchange the traditional kiss and toast, renewing their promises of love, and the music will continue to envelop them until late at night.
A village with such a romantic and magical backdrop is surely the ideal setting for taking a photo in one of the many picturesque panoramic spots or on the lovers’ bench.
So, all that remains is to immerse oneself in the magical dimension of the Romantic Night in Morro d’Alba, the village of Lacrima wine and the most evocative rampart walk in the Marche region.
Self-taught, Enzo Cucchi initially explored conceptual art before moving toward figuration, becoming one of the main figures of the historic core of the Italian Transavanguardia, as theorized by Achille Bonito Oliva. In his canvas works, often accompanied by numerous drawings and sometimes introduced by poetic texts written by the artist himself, he reclaims myth, art history, and literature with a visionary gaze (e.g., Cani con lingua a spasso, 1980; Eroe senza testa, 1981; Sia per mare che per terra, 1980), creating compositions of great symbolic intensity, in which the world is frequently depicted as a battlefield between opposing principles.
After creating large compositions using charcoal and collage, he experimented with various materials, including earth, burned wood, neon tubes, and iron (in the Vitebsk-Harar series dedicated to Arthur Rimbaud and Kazimir Severinovič Malevič), while simultaneously embracing an almost Caravaggesque use of light, allowing for remarkable spatial depth effects.
In 1986, he responded to the call of Neapolitan gallerist Lucio Amelio, who, following the 1980 Irpinia earthquake, asked leading contemporary artists of the time to create a work on the theme of the earthquake for the Terrae Motus collection. Cucchi’s work Untitled consists of four aged and rusted iron panels, evoking the violence of time’s wear, with a circular motif of a ship at the center, a symbolic image dear to the artist. He has also created several sculptures and contributed to the decoration of the Monte Tamaro chapel near Lugano (1992–94, architect Mario Botta). In 2016, he collaborated on the project for the Church of San Giacomo Apostolo in Ferrara, opened in 2021, where a cycle of black ceramic works depicting biblical episodes is installed.
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