Cupramontana, capital of Verdicchio

Located in the heart of the Marche region at 505 meters above sea level, Cupramontana is the ideal place for a relaxing stay, good food and good wine, for an active, sporting or cultural holiday.

Cupramontana: Horto de I Semplici

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This new botanical garden is located in the former vegetable garden of the 18th-century St. Catherine monastery, with a collection of herbs and medicinal wild native plants for educational purposes.

This botanical garden Horto de i Semplici refers to the medieval city gardens where Semplici was cultivated; simple native wild plants and herbs with medicinal properties.
On a surface of 75 square meters, the more than 100 plants were subdivided into 8 groups according to their medicinal properties: airways, urogenital, digestive, nervous system, skin, heart and blood vessels, purifying, balsamic.

In the middle of the 4 intersecting paths is a pomegranate tree, the tree of life, because already in antiquity the symbol for fertility.

The bench under the rose arch invites every visitor to relax in this beautiful historic place.