Placed in the northern part of the region Marche, Pesaro is an important city from the tourist, industrial and historical-cultural point of view.
It is important at tourist level because as the greatest part in the cities bordering the Adriatic coast, it has known how to exploit the sea becoming in the course of the years a great bathing resort at international level. The well equipped beaches, the modern hotels endowed with every comfort and the numerous tourist initiatives that every year is organized, make of Pesaro the ideal place for the typical holyday on the sea.
But Pesaro is also history and culture: the city has in fact gives the natives to the great composer Gioachino Rossini, to which the theatre of the city is dedicated. Of relief is the Rossini Opera Festival, that every year recalls followers of the lyric from the whole world.
Pesaro is as great industrial centre as well. The city in fact has the greatest industrial pole of furniture in Italy.

Main sights:

• The Ducal Palace, constructed by Alessandro Sforza in the second half of the 15th century. The façade has a portico with six arcades supported by six heavy pilasters and an upper floor with five windows crowned by coats of arms, festoons and puttoes.
• The Romanesque Cathedral Basilica, built in the 5th century over remains of a late Roman edifice and dedicated to St. Terence during the Middle Ages. The façade, in Romanesque-Gothic style, is unfinished: it has a simple ogival portal surmounted by a band of small archs. A recent restoration has brought to light a precious set of floor mosaics.
• St. Augustine, with a splendid Gothic portal.
• The massive Rocca Costanza (Castle), built in the 15th century by Costanzo Sforza, once used as prison. It has a square plan with four cylindrical towers and a wide ditch.
• The birthplace of Gioacchino Rossini located at 34 Via Rossini. It has a museum dedicated to the composer, with manifestoes, prints, portraits and his spinetta.
• The Town Museum houses the noteworthy Pesaro Altarpiece by Giambellino. The Oliveriani Museum is home to several interesting archaeological findings.