Santa Maria a Pié di Chienti in Macerata | Travel + Leisure
Montecosaro
Macerata, Italy
39-073-386-5241

Near Montecosaro, the bare-brick Romanesque church of Santa Maria a Pié di Chienti, flanked by a smoke-filled café teeming with men playing cards, has veined alabaster windows that look like abstract stained-glass designs and bathe the interior in pale golden light.

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From Travel + Leisure, Jul 2006

“The artist Enzo Cucchi, one of Italy's finest, and a native of Le Marche, has a craggy profile that competes with the craggy cliff of Conero, where he told us to meet him at the Hotel Emilia, or rather, hotel emilia, as it modestly bills itself...” MORE>>

–Gini Alhadeff, “The Other Side of Italy”

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