“The world endlessly spins in space” and somehow Giro-E has ended up in Camerino, hometown of singer-songwriter Jimmy Fontana, who famously penned those lyrics. Today’s stage, the fifth, is the second hilly stage of the Giro-E Enel 2025 and the e-bike race begins in this town, located on a hill between the Sibillini Mountains and Mount San Vicino, land of the Da Varano family, surrounded by strongholds and castles.
The town is famous for its university, founded in the Middle Ages, and this area was heavily damaged by the earthquake of 26 October 2016. Today it is a success story in terms of resilience and effective reconstruction activities, with the many cranes of the building sites forming part of a breathtaking landscape.
Sitting in the middle of a pristine mountainous area, Camerino’s architectural beauty, ancient university, the cult of Saint Camilla Battista Varano and the first Order of Friars Minor Capuchin, its cultural traditions and good cuisine make it an extremely attractive destination. Indeed, it was awarded with the Orange Flag of tourism in 2009.
For years Camerino has been a symbol of sustainable mobility: the local government continues to invest in the town’s infrastructure network and promote this new form of environmentally friendly mobility. So much so that soon its urban transport system will include almost exclusively electric buses. Camerino is also investing in the green transition by creating a Renewable Energy Community with eight other public bodies in the area and will become one of the most important of these communities in the Marche region.
The historical re-enactment of the Corsa alla Spada e Palio is a long-standing, historically accurate event. Since 1982, every year in May the town returns to its age of greatest splendour (mid 1400s), when the De Varano family ruled over a vast territory. There are many rigorous ceremonies, cultural events, initiatives and delicious food.
People should visit Camerino multiple times to see a place that is renowned for its beauty and always eager to welcome tourists. “A stranger who climbed up through the fog would suddenly see it before him like a vision… its distant shape evokes a noble destiny.” This is how poet and playwright Ugo Betti, who was also from Camerino, once described the town.
