Oliveto is an olive farm set in the hills of Le Marche. The owners, Tamsin Hickson and Aldo Montecchiari, have created a home for their family, and two self catering apartments in the two hundred year old farmhouse, where they run courses all year round and entertain holiday guests during the summer.

For someone wanting to immerse themselves in Italian culture and language from a place of peace and quiet, Oliveto, Le Marche is the perfect base. Tamsin and Aldo can organise lessons in the language and cooking, trips to local vineyards to try different wines, the opportunity to help with the olive harvest and see how olive oil is made.

Le Marche is known as the hidden jewel of Central Italy. It lies between the Sibillini Mountains and the Adriatic coast with a gently rolling landscape of hills with a medieval town on almost every hilltop.
On a clear day the hills unfold towards snow capped mountains or the cerulean blue of the Adriatic, on misty days the landscape changes constantly as different towns appear through the mist.
The lifestyle here has been relatively unchanged by modern development, there is still small scale farming, with olive groves, vineyards, and most of the fresh produce grown locally.

Culturally the area is rich, the churches are filled with Renaissance paintings and there are several trails which people follow seeking out individual paintings of great beauty hidden in churches in tiny towns. There is also a lively programme of music all year round.
The area around Oliveto is active throughout the year. Macerata is the nearest university city, just fifteen minutes away with a theatre and open air amphitheatre.

Oliveto is just five minutes by car from Mogliano or twenty minutes on foot through the countryside. It is ideal for anyone looking for a base of outstanding beauty from which to explore Central Italy. Oliveto is three hours from Rome and Bologna, five hours from Venice and Florence, and eight hours from Naples. All cities can be reached by train from Civitanova Marche just twenty minutes away.
Oliveto is a perfect setting for courses on photography, painting, art history, language, creative writing, life coaching - anything which requires a place with large spaces for working indoors and outdoors, the opportunity to think and concentrate amidst natural beauty, with the chance to explore new horizons.