Anise (Pimpinella anisum) is a herbaceous plant native of the East, spread to Europe and around the Mediterranean basin. It has an annual life cycle and produces its grayish-green berries in the period of August, about a month after flowering. The Lands of Piceno, the Anise is grown mainly in the municipality of Castignano, thanks to the peculiarities of soil and climate (Badlands). From the second half of 800, in Italy the…

Giovanni Di Matteo Colucci

Ferdinando Cicconi painter(1831-1886), a pupil of Tommaso Minardi in Rome and Francesco Podesti.

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Eugenio Federico Massi was born in Monteprandone on 13th August 1875. He was a catholic missionary in China between 1903 and 1944, when he died in an air raid on the city of Hankow. He arrived in China during the Boxers’ persecution of christians.  In 1910, Pope Pio IX appointed him Bishop and Vicars Apostolic of Northern Shansi. He built churches, hospitals, orphanages, aqueducts, schools. Chinese authorities too have always considered him a man of…

Centobuchi (in English, “one hundred holes”) is the most populated area of the Monteprandone’s territory. Its growth is due to the development of the agroindustrial, mechanical and manufacturing businesses. It is also a very dynamic district, due to the presence of many young families. Surely, the name “Centobuchi” is quite strange. One might ask where this name comes from. From the research of the historian Saturnino Loggi, we learn that a Monteprandone map of 1753 informs…

The Sunday after the Feast of SS. Trinity is the feast of the Body and Blood of the Lord. Before the liturgical reform was known as the Feast of Corpus Christi (distinct from the feast of the Blood of Christ celebrated in July) The feast of Corpus Christi has its origins in the fervent atmosphere of Gallia belgica – that St. Francis called friend Corporis Domini – and especially thanks the revelations…

The sausage meat Carassai is unique in that in the flesh of the ground which forms the dough is made, in addition to the usual flavors, even ham ground. It is celebrated mainly during the famous Festival of the sausage on the grill, where the sausage, cooked quickly on the grill so that it does not dry out, is served ‘chops’ with fresh bread and traditional side dishes of the gastronomy of…

Simple to implement, the pancakes are typical traditional massignanese and date back to many years ago. It is fried sweets, soft and very tasty, with a delicate aroma of lemon and cinnamon. In their honor, in 1958 was born the characteristic and namesake festival, by a group of citizens of Massignano.