Immersed in the smooth hills of Marche surrounding the ancient town of Fermo, Farm MadonnaBruna takes its name from the commemorative aedicule dated back to the XIX century and situated at the entrance of the Farm. The statue represents Our Lady of Loreto and recalls the small church built in times past by the local land-owners to thank the Virgin Mary after a miraculous intervention.

During the centuries the temple had been destroyed, but popular devotion has always remembered this area as particularly fruitful and pleasant, a clear evidence of the special favour reserved to this land by the dark-haired Mighty Lady (in Italian Madonna Bruna).

The farm lies only 4 Km from the sea, between the town of Fermo and the village of Lapedona, and enjoys a beautiful panoramic view of the green hills and the Adriatic Sea. The extent of the farm is 50 hectares devoted to fruit-growing, vineyard and to the rotation of sown fields. The farm joins the CEE regulation for low environmental impact (F 1).

Madonnabruna has 14 hectares planted with specialised vineyard registered in the Official List for the DOC Rosso Piceno.

The vineyards are situated on the hillside between 100 and 200 metres from the sea level and cultivated with vines of the varieties Sangiovese and Montepulciano. Recently, small vineyards have been planted with international species of vines as Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon.

All the vineyard are cultivated following the "Guyot" system that provides for the annual renewal of the fruitful branches. During the pruning, buds are strongly reduced and this allows the control of the production and permits an excellent ripening of the grapes. During vintage, grapes are gathered and put in small boxes, furthermore it's important to underline that gathering is carried out strictly by hand and takes place in two or three subsequent passages in order to choose, every time, the best ripen bunches of grapes.

The farm includes two farmhouses, one is devoted to the reception of tourists willing to spend their holiday enjoying the landscape and the pleasure of the countryside, and the second one is the very centre of all the activities of the farm. Near this house there is the area designed to the breeding of the horses of the small riding-ground and to the breeding of several species of poultry.

Lately Farm Madonnabruna has been reorganised and restored, completing this process with the building of a new and modern wine cellar in order to transform directly and without any external intervention the grapes grown in the farm into wine. Madonnabruna wines are very typical of the Piceno territory and are produced following the tradition and the careful processing of the two most important local vines, Montepulciano and Sangiovese. The core of our work is to create wines of a great quality but always strictly linked to the territory.

Anyway, the farm efforts face the future. Research and new technologies are allowing great results employing also international species of vines recently introduced in the farm vineyards, as Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon.

In 2002 Farm Madonnabruna started the construction of the new and modern wine cellar, completed in 2004, where are applied the most recent and effective technologies of the wine sector: automatic control of the fermentation temperature, "delastage" technique for wine making, cryo-soaking and any other method tested in order to obtain high quality wines.

The BARRICAIA is located in the old farmhouse, separated from the technical area of the cellar. Here small barrels (barriques) made of French oak are lined up.

This is a room specially designed to receive the best production of the Farm, here the finest wines Madonnabruna are carefully controlled and mellowed before being distributed in selected wine shops and restaurants.

The activity of the country Inn "Agriturismo Madonnabruna" is carried out in an ancient farmhouse completely restored preserving the features of old rural Marche houses and consists of four self catering apartments all with independent entrance and parking.
Particular attention has been paid to privacy, every apartment is composed of two-three bedrooms, a living room with kitchen , bathroom and a private veranda or terrace. The farmhouse is situated on the top of the hill in a panoramic location at the end of a private path, is far from traffic roads but only 4 km from the beach that can be admired from the house.
The farmhouse is in the very heart of the farm, surrounded by high trees, vineyards and orchards; the absence of noise is really agreeable: at Madonnabruna our guests will find silence which only a country inn, lost inside nature, can assure and will regenerate with long walks in the paths of the farm observing the countryside activities.
Holidays at Madonnabruna mean to meet country people and also to experience the activities of agriculture and breeding and tasting country products. Agriturismo Madonnabruna is the ideal place for a calm farmstay because offers relaxing environmentally friendly holidays thereby allowing the visitor both time to have fun at the beach in Porto San Giorgio and also discover the numerous cultural beauties which Marche is very rich in.
In the Farm our guests will have the opportunity of tasting our traditional local products with their genuine flavours and fragrances: they will taste our extra virgin biological certified olive oil and fruit and will sip the excellent wine produced and mellowed in the barriques of our cellar. In the area, visitors can find many taverns and small restaurants and experience the local cuisine, which offers skilfully prepared regional dishes.
For those who don't only want to relax in the country but also wish to visit the most important cultural centres of the area, a wide range of short day trips is possible, the surroundings are rich of art and history and really deserve a visit. The country Inn Madonnabruna is an excellent base for excursions in the Piceno area to visit the historical towns of Fermo, Torre di Palme, Grottammare and the antique town of Ascoli Piceno only 25/30 km away from Madonnabruna.
Another very interesting place to visit is the pre-roman and medieval town of Ancona (40 km from the farm) with nearby the very famous sanctuary of Loreto containing the house of the Virgin Mary transported here from the Holy Land and rebuilt during the Crusades.
Moreover, there are plenty of ancient unknown little villages in this area, where our guests can enjoy charming walks inside medieval walls and through delightful ancient narrow streets.