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Municipality of Recanati – Comune di Recanati

 

Recanati is a remarkably hill town of Marche Region, just inland from the Adriatic Sea. It is situated on a ridge between the valleys of the Potenza and the Musone rivers, with a wonderful view that stretches from the Sibillini Mountains to the Adriatic Sea.

Recanati is close to the heart of many Italians as the birthplace of one the country's greatest poets, Giacomo Leopardi, and one of the most world famous tenor, Beniamino Gigli. Palazzo Leopardi, at the southern edge of town, where he was born and brought up, holds memorabilia, manuscripts and his fascinating library, containing 20,000 volumes. Further places connected with Leopardi and his poems are: the square of "Il sabato del villagio", just in front of the eighteenth-century Palazzo Leopardi; the "House of Silvia; the "Hill of Infinity", the peak of Mount Tabor, which inspired the eponymous poem composed by the poet when he was 21 years old and now home to the Colle dell'Infinito literary Park; the ancient vegetable garden of the monastery of the Poor Clares and the World Center of Poetry and Culture, the Leopardi National Studies Centre, the Tower of the "Passero Solitario", located in the courtyard of the cloister of Sant'Agostino, Palazzo Antici Mattei, Leopardi's mother birthplace.

 

Municipality of Recanati: http://www.comune.recanati.mc.it/

Tourist information: http://www.italythisway.com/places/recanati.php

History of Recanati: http://www.italythisway.com/places/articles/recanati-history.php

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