Agriturismo Il Crinale

In the past it was a typical cottage and today it is a smart country house characterized by a warm and pleasant furnishings and a friendly atmosphere, renovated and provided with all comforts and services to offer always the best welcome.
It has a restaurant, a swimming pool, a horse boarding house (also for cats and dogs) and there is the possibility of making use of the near riding track for riding courses, rides and obstacle races; biological and agricultural products are sold on the spot and proposed in traditional and typical menus: Il Crinale means experience, passion and care of details, together with the choice of a wonderful territory such as the gentle hills of the Marches and of the Piceno.

Il Crinale farm holiday stems from specialized competencies bind to the world of agricultural production, horses-breeding, horse-riding and passion for nature in general, environmental contact and respect, genuineness and life in the open air.
It is in this way that arises Il Crinale, a complete farm holiday which can boast the experience of Quitadamo family in the selection of the best agricultural production of fruit and vegetables, thanks to the wholesale of fruit and vegetables which still runs in Brianza and nowadays in the Piceno territory.

Il Crinale farm holiday gives you the opportunity to appreciate in the best way the Piceno territory and its rich natural and cultural resources thanks to a very pleasant stay in its own facility too.
The choice is large. There are completely renewed rooms, in perfect and comfortable country house style which are in the main country house where there is also the restaurant. There is a very comfortable cottage, located 250 metres for the main building, in a dependence near the restaurant, surrounded by vineyard and olive trees.

Il Crinale can also make use of another important facility, the Piccolo Ranch horse club (in Pagliare del Tronto, running down the Tronto River Valley from Castorano). It is a new reality created by Quitadamo family for the pleasure and the satisfaction of everyone who likes horse-riding. The Piccolo Ranch horse club has a riding track, a horses boarding house and a riding-horse school provided with work fields, training and steeple chases.
You may bring here your pets too (cats, dogs and horses) and there is the opportunity of boarding them. The main country house offers you a striking view overlooking the hills. You may also make use of the large swimming pool where, immersed in the scent and the colours of nature, you may have relaxing and regenerating baths.
Thanks to the different solutions offered, there are rooms for every need. In detail, the rooms at your disposal are: double room with private toilet, independent entrance and additional single bed; double room with toilet; communicating single room and double room with toilet in common; double rooms with toilet in common located on the ground floor, with French windows face the square near the entrance to the swimming pool.

Thanks to its comforts and services, its independent kitchen and a nice fireplace for a homely warmth and atmosphere, the cottage offers you the opportunity of a holiday to your measure.

The restaurant of the farm holiday Il Crinale is ready to delight the costumers with typical and natural products of its farm and of the area: tasty cold meat and salami, fresh and matured sheep milk cheeses (pecorino), boletuses and truffles, olive oils and high quality wines, seasonal fruit and vegetables, traditional cakes and finally sweet-smelling liqueurs of the best rural tradition.For the costumers who don't stay at the farm holiday, the restaurant is open on Friday and Saturday evening and on Sunday lunch only on booking.
On request it is also possible to make use of the restaurant for parties, meetings and receptions, tasting the products of the farm and the typical cooking.

Il Crinale farm holiday, in Castorano, arises in the centre of a wonderful area, the Piceno, which is as varied as the landscapes which compose it are different and the villages which characterize its ridges and valleys are picturesque, from the mountain to the sea. In fact the Piceno, the southern part of the Marches which borders on Abruzzo, is a territory deeply characterized, from the point of view of the structure and the landscape, by an articulation of many ridges and valleys which influences and distinguishes the life of its inhabitants, from the birth of the villages and the first urbanization downstream and along the coast.

In fact hill ridges go down from the Sibillini Mountains to the Adriatic Sea and at the same time narrow valleys run down from the mountains to the sea, widening out and spreading out progressively, with rivers and torrents.
Coming closer to the coast the hill ridges become terraces overlooking the sea where, since the Middle Ages, unique and precious urban towns stand, for needs of defence and wholesome air, far away from the marshy valleys. In the same way, since the XIth - XIIth century, fortified castles stand on the ridges, located side by side, protected by towers and walls and they try to preserve their independence towards the two powerful cities in conflict: Ascoli and Fermo.

After noticing the structure, the landscape and the history of this territory, we have thought that Il Crinale is the more suitable name for a farm holiday structure which has the purpose to promote a conscious tourism sets out to discover historical and natural treasures of the Piceno through the exploitation of a territory with its own activity. In fact the best way for visiting the Piceno is following its history and life for better appreciating art places, landscapes and traditions, typical products and oenogastronomy.

However it is particularly right to talk about history in a territory like Castorano, in the area of the "Crinale dei Piceni" which winds for about 40 kms, going up the slopes of the hills between the Tesino River Valley and the Tronto River Valley, going across the Rosso Piceno Superiore AC wine way and passing through other wonderful towns such as Acquaviva Picena, Offida and Castignano, which are ancient settlements of the Picenis' population.
The Picenis are an Etruschis' coeval people, settled on these hills between the IXth and the IVth cent. BC: it is testified by many archeological findings found in Acquaviva Picena and Offida and by the stele of Castignano (VIIth - VIth cent. BC), a village characterized by Romanesque architectures, located on a particular gully territory.