Belvedere Park

B

elvedere Park has a surface of three hectars, completely covered by a pine forest planted in the Forties of the last century.

The big terrace on the top of the hill offers a wide panorama on the coast, from Mount Conero to Porto San Giorgio.

The pinewood is an ideal place  for pic-nic and outdoor walking; the services (bar, restaurant, swimming pool, tennis field, trail, etc.) let you have a relaxing time.

History of the camping

Belvedere Camping is open since 1986. Located on the hill called Monte Cucco, it is nowadays mapped as Villa Belvedere (from which the camping took its name).

The hill is located at midway between the Fontespina district of Civitanova Marche and the medieval Civitanova Alta, now both unified in the same Municipality.

The oldest trace of history in the camping is the Palazzaccio, a building used at the beginning as an observation tower and then as a cloister. It was renovated in 1792, when the hill was afforested with olive trees by Napoleonic soldiers and the Palazzaccio was used as a colonic house; the last olive tree of that plantation still towers over in the middle of the camping. Recently reorganized, it is nowadays a private villa.

A documented theory says that, during the Middle Ages, on the top of the hill (where now there is the Park) was located the Castle of Torliano, of which there is a trace in a cadastral map of the pontificial age.

In the Forties of the last century, all the property was bought by a doctor from Morrovalle, Bernardo Ercoli; in that period, all the site was afforested with more than 2500 pine trees, that make it the most wooded hill of the area. The Ercoli family owns the land since more than half a century and directly manages the Camping.