Montelupone

A village on the gentle hills of the Marches, Montelupone still preserves its castle walls, its entrance gates to the town and its original stone pavement, the 14th-century Palazzetto del Podestà (or dei Priori) and its civic tower. But this small village also tells its story in the peculiarities of its table and its traditions, and the product that best symbolises the town is the artichoke, to which a festival is also dedicated every year in May: for a weekend, the Montelupese artichoke becomes the protagonist of tastings accompanied by music and local folklore, because the identity of a table is always intertwined with the soul of the people who inhabit the territory, with its traditions and deepest roots.