In this edition
No dispatches in today's edition.
Recent headlines from this bureau
- Jinjiang fire kills 28, exposes Marche's reliance on Chinese footwear
- Chinese factory fire kills 28, shaking Marche's footwear supply chain
- Chinese shoe factory fire kills 28, raising questions for Italian leather exporters
- Four Seasons orders third luxury yacht from Ancona shipyard
- Ancona secures third Four Seasons yacht order as luxury cruise market expands
- Adriatic dolphins learn to hunt with trawlers as overfishing reshapes marine behaviour
- Four Seasons orders third luxury yacht from Ancona shipyard
- Florence rail works fracture Italy's north-south connection, disrupting Adriatic trade routes
Geography & climate
Mediterranean on the coast, continental inland.
Between the Apennines and the Adriatic — parallel river valleys, hill towns, a long beach coast.
Economy & culture
Shoes and leather, furniture, mechanical districts, fishing, tourism.
Urbino and the Renaissance, Leopardi and Rossini, a dispersed town-and-country life.