Food shopping over Easter weekend

[Anniet2]

If we arrive in Le Marche around Easter, will the supermarkets be open? I imagine the large ones like Iper at Civitanova Marche and Cityper at Piediripa will be, maybe with reduced opening hours, but I would like to know for certain. Can anyone enlighten me please?
Annie.

[anne2]

Here in Italy only Easter Sunday and Monday are public holidays - all shops open as normal on the Fri and Sat. Whether they will open on Easter Mon, I don't know, many are closed on Mon am anyway so I suspect not, but each year more and more shops seem to ignore some of the public holidays.

[Biagio]

Good question Anniet2. I'm arriving on Easter Saturday so I would also like to know if shops/supermarkets/restaurants are open on Easter Monday or do we have to stock up on Saturday? I presume that restaurants will be open on Easter day.

[alan h]

Originally Posted by Biagio

...................... I would also like to know if shops/supermarkets/restaurants are open on Easter Monday or do we have to stock up on Saturday? I presume that restaurants will be open on Easter day.

Unless you can get local info to the contrary, you should assume that shops will be shut on Easter Monday - our local bread shop opens, and he sells some 'provisions', but the supermarkets were all closed last Easter Monday when we were there.

Restaurants - some/many will be open, but they may well be heavily booked up by family parties - so unless you can book in advance [difficult from over in the UK], I wouldn't bank on being able to go out for a meal.



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[emaland]

Shop typical 'Le Marche' food on www.mymarca.com.
Are special food and is possible to order and recieve at home all that you desire.
Contact at skype name: mymarca.com
Thanks
E.

[jepsonclough]

Originally Posted by alan h

Unless you can get local info to the contrary, you should assume that shops will be shut on Easter Monday - our local bread shop opens, and he sells some 'provisions', but the supermarkets were all closed last Easter Monday when we were there.

Restaurants - some/many will be open, but they may well be heavily booked up by family parties - so unless you can book in advance [difficult from over in the UK], I wouldn't bank on being able to go out for a meal.
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We visited last Easter and while we weren't able to get into the first choice of restaurant we were able to get into one and had a great experiecne - we were the only English people (and only one man spoike English - he came to chat with us which was lovely), lots of big Italian families - our kids were out playing football (well it's an international language) - one of the experiences that made us decide to buy a property in Le Marche.

With the internet (or cheap calls available with VOIP or even without VOIP - it's not that much to phone Italy) you should be able to make reservations from the UK.

Chirs