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Rentaing a Car is Best for Le Marche

Although there are two main train lines that go through Le Marche [the Milano-Bologna-Ancona-Lecce line and Roma-Falconara Marittima-Ancona line], it is much more convenient to have a car to cover the Le Marche region which is just under 10,000 square kilometres.

We rented from Auto Europe [before we left]. The car was a Peugeot 206 stick shift car. For ten days, the cost was $529.38 or about $53.00 per day. We picked it up at Rome Fiumicino Airport [Leonardo Da Vinci] and delivered it back.

If you want to cover the four provinces [Ancona, Ascoli Piceno, Macerata, Pesaro-Urbino], see both the mountains and the beaches, then a car is necessary. We rented our car through Euro Car Rental before we left the United States. We picked up and dropped off our car at the Airport in Rome. We just took our printed sheet to them when we arrived at the rental desk and submitted the sheet upon return. We had already paid everything before we left the States.

The Marche is right in the middle of the Italian peninsula and the surface area is between Emilia Romagna to the north; Toscany and Umbria to the west; Lazio and Abruzzo to the south. In our stick-shift car, covered most of that entire territory.

I will say that when in the historic city that were walled, we parked our car in a car park and walked within the town itself.

Since we had already been in Italy three other times and had always driven either leased or rental cars, we were fully aware of the driving habits of the Italians. Thus, it just seemed "normal" to us this time. Driving in the mountains with all the Italians can be pretty intimidating, I must admit.

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