Capital of spirit, art and poetry
Where Appennino and the Adriatic finish ignoring themselves and they draw near up to the embrace, there is a land with a glorious past that that does competition for suggestion and greatness, with the present.
Pesaro and Urbino, sea and mountain modernity and Rinascimento, constitute an unusual combination that confirm the multiplicity of affairs that dresses again this zone punctuated from serene suburbs and from medieval castles.
The duke Federico from Montefeltro has been among the most sensitive and illuminated despots of the Rinascimento, to testimony of the fact, Urbino exists.
A thrilling city from the sublime human and aesthetical values, this has been the objective centred in full of the Duke.
Difficulty is to describe the harmony of its lines, the breath of its spaces, the artistic value of the works that contains and it guards today jealously still. Abandoned on the summit of a hill of 450 meters, up to a little while ago it was inaccessible and out of every street of communication, today it is still a world to itself one "small republic" of art history and culture.
The most important attractions are:


•    The Ducal building, defined already "not human but divine building", splendid for the line and the architectural purity thought by the architect Laurana (1645)
•    The National Gallery of the Brands, important works of the greatest Italian artists, from Paul Uccello, to the urbinate Rafael Sanzio, from Titian to the Verrocchio.
•    The church of St. Domenico, in front of the side it is of the Ducal Building, beautiful construction of the '300 enriched by an important fanlight of L. of the Robbia.
•    The building of the university of Urbino (among the most ancient of Italy) with the interesting Library
•    The house Rafael's Sanzio native '400.
You cannot go to Urbino without purchasing a lithography fusion of the artistic fancy and the handicraft job jealously handed down by father in child.
Useful Info:

Azienda di Promozione Turistica Marche IAT

Piazza Duca Federico, 35 Urbino

Infotel : ++39 0722 - 2613

E-Mail iat.urbino@regione.marche.it

Visita guidata al Palazzo Ducale ½ giornata Euro 3,00 per persona su base di partecipazione 50 persone:

Ingresso al Palazzo Ducale:

da 0 a 17,99 anni gratis

da 18 a 23,99 anni Euro 2,00

da 24 a 64,99 anni Euro 4,00

da 65 anni in avanti gratis

Visita guidata alla Casa di Raffaello :

(non meno di 15 persone)

Euro 2,00 (pagano tutti)

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