Following the course of the Aso, from hill to hill, from the sunny villages of Altidona and Lapedona to the Farfensi Montelparo to the woods of Vettore, the journey passes through an incredible variety of landscapes and colours, fields and glimpses of settlements, through modern constructions and traces of the past. The fertile valley displays the perfect outlines of vegetable gardens and orchards; the hills, dotted with houses, are covered in olive trees and vines: the villages, perched on crags and guarded by heavy medieval walls, cluster around abbeys and bell tows. Moresco and Monterubbiano are number among the most beautiful hamlets in Italy, Campofilone solemnly faces onto the valley with its abbey complex and gates, Monte Vidon Combatte has views that stretch to Gran Sasso, Petritoli, Ortezzano, Monte Rinaldo, S. Vittoria in Matenano, Montefalcone, follow the ancient design of the roads of the Farfensi monks, whose memory lives on in the remains of castles and monasteries and the agrarian methods of the territory. The Tenna valley is the natural junction between sea and mountains; it’s for this reason that the Romans chose Falerio, the ancient Falerone, to found a flourishing colony. Faleriense is the beautiful road that runs through all from Porto Sant’Elpidio to Amandola, and once a picturesque little train ran through this land, and all the little stations remain. The Tenna, emerging from the fearful Infernaccio to lap Amandola, desends into the fine lake of S. Ruffino, habitat of Cinerini herons and on whose band the splendid Romanesque abbery of S. Ruffino e Vitale was built. It then runs through the plan between sunflower fields and villages that rising from the ancient settlements have introduced new activities: Surveilling, a perfect 18th century town built to a quadrangular plan, Falerone with its Roman theatre, Montegiorio opposite Belmonte, Magliono with its imposing towers atop the city walls, Grottazzolina, Rapagnano and Monte Urano, alive with craftsmanship and industry. Beyond the Tenna and at Aso, the territory of Fermo is traversed by two little rivers bearing very similar names. To the south, the Ete Vivo runs down through the territory of Monteleone, renowned for the natural phenomenon of sulphur flares, passes by Monsampietro Morico, Montottone, Monte Gilberto and Ponzano wrapped in a silence broken only by the sounds of ancient trades being plied. To the north is the Ete Morto. Travelling through Monte Vidon Corrado, the villages of Licini, Massa Fermana, Montappone and Francavilla d’Ete, the tourist cannot but be enchanted by the golden mounds of grain, the unending horizons, the mysterious full moons that inspired the canvasses of great painters, while at the same time discovering the ancient artisan skills such as the making of straw hats. But continuing in turn to Monte S. Pietrangeli, Torre San Patrizio, Montegranaro and Sant’Elpidio a Mare, the tourist encounters modernity and is surrounding by the dynamic industrial landscape of the Made in Italy brand of footwear production.