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Tours
The Wine Regions
The Wine Regions

A journey from the sea to the mountains to sample wines and gastronomic products from the regions that shaped Italy's culinary history. Landscapes from the Renaissance. Set your watercolours in the same location where world-renowned artists such as Leonardo da Vinci, Giotto, and Piero della Francesca created their masterpieces. This tour is unique in that it includes visits to nearby villages as well as tastings of traditional local food and wine. (read more)

Renaissance Landscapes
Renaissance Landscapes

Landscapes from the Renaissance. Set your watercolours in the same location where world-renowned artists such as Leonardo da Vinci, Giotto, and Piero della Francesca created their masterpieces. This tour is unique in that it includes visits to nearby villages as well as tastings of traditional local food and wine.

E-Bike Tour on the Apennines
E-Bike Tour on the Apennines

This electric bike tour winds through the mountains that form the borders of three Italian regions: Emilia-Romagna, Marche, and Tuscany. We will pass through nature reserves and parks where we can lose ourselves in admiring the landscapes facing the Adriatic Sea or the Tuscan countryside. A route that is accessible to everyone, thanks to the use of electric bicycles, that will take you to lesser-known Italy and its food and wine specialties.

Geotrails
Geotrails

Discovering the geological and environmental itineraries of the Marecchia Valley. (read more)

Traces of Faith
Traces of Faith

A journey to the places of worship of Christianity.An encounter with architecture, art and sacred music.-Tempio Malatestiano (Rimini) - San Leo - Parish church of P.te Messa- Franciscan Sanctuary La Verna- Sansepolcro - Civic Museum - Assisi Duration: 5 days (read more)

Events
 International Performing Arts Festival
International Performing Arts Festival
June

Since 1997, the town of Pennabilli welcomes performers and artists from all over the world. The municipality, like other few Italian cities, decided to allow street artists performances, even if an old national security law prohibited them. A whole long weekend, in Pennabilli, is dedicated to art. (read more)

Montefeltro Festival
Montefeltro Festival
July

Montefeltro Festival is the showcase of the activities of the Opera Academy. In it artists and students from all over the world come to perfect their vocal art with particular attention to the aspect of Italian phonetics that helps them to improve the comprehensibility of words, the quality of sound and to respect the principles of Belcanto. Their performances in front of the Italian public are the test of the improvements made in the Academy, often truly surprising. (read more)

Sant'Agata Feltria White Truffle Fair
Sant'Agata Feltria White Truffle Fair
October

The Fair enhances traditional products by selecting excellences, most notably the precious white truffle. The precious tuber is transformed directly from our territory, from its natural habitat, the woods, into a kitchen to create dishes of high gastronomic value, which release intoxicating aromas far from the globalization that often overwhelms us, to protect the integrity of our environment. (read more)

Medieval Reenactment
Medieval Reenactment
May

The event takes place in the historic center of Casteldelci, a small village in the Romagna Apennines, and has over 100 participants who set up a genuine medieval market with craft shops, food kiosks, the reopening of old pubs, and the use of vintage wood-burning ovens. (read more)

Honey Festival of Montebello
Honey Festival of Montebello
September

A few kilometres from Rimini, Montebello, one of Italy's most evocative villages, comes alive to celebrate the honeys of Romagna. For the occasion, restaurants, trattorias, and pastry stores set up recipes from ancient tradition derived from "the gold of the bees" throughout the streets of the village. (read more)

Credits: Romagna a Tavola
Worth visiting
Stamp and Coin Museum of San Marino

MFM is the museum that San Marino offers to enthusiasts, collectors, tourists and onlookers to learn about the history of the Republic through two centuries of coins and medals, stamps and works of art, unpublished and exceptional objects and documents.

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San Leo Fortress

The Fortress of San Leo located at the highest point of a rocky plate bordered by imposing vertical walls, the fortress represents the main architectural emergency of the entire village of San Leo. The origins of the fortified town are certainly pre-Christian, although the first documented news of a real settlement are linked to the presence of the holy Lion between the fourth and fifth centuries. The remarkable strategic position made San Leo a disputed place throughout the early Middle Ages: from the Goths to the Byzantines, passing through the Lombards (Desiderio built the first defensive garrison in masonry) up to the domination of the Church, attested from the mid-eighth until most of the tenth century.

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Nature Reserve Alp of the Moon

The Alpe della Luna Nature Reserve is located in the heart of the Apennines, on the mountains that extend between the towns of Pieve Santo Stefano, Badia Tedalda, Sansepolcro and Sestino, between silent hamlets and ridges covered with woods. This beautiful and mysterious place inspired the sublime artist Piero della Francesca five centuries ago.

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Cloister Santa Croce

The Convent of Santa Croce stands on the place where St. Francis of Assisi, passing through Villa Verucchio on the occasion of his trip to S. Leo in the year 1213, according to tradition would have planted the stick to which he supported himself during the journey around which roots and leaves were born: the gigantic cypress tree over seven centuries old that is still visible in the cloister.

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Fregoso Fortress

The fortress was built about the year 1000 on the crag known as Sasso del Lupo, Wolf Rock. Its historic name, “Petra anellaria” derives from the circular shape of the rock on which it stands. It was restored and fortified by Francesco di Giorgio Martini in 1474. From 1506 to 1660 it was a fief of the illustrious Campofregoso family of Genoa; they transformed it into an aristocratic residence suitable for their elegant court.

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The Malatesta Fortress

The Malatesta Fortress is located in the upper part of Verucchio: also known as Rocca del Sasso for its position at the apex of the spur of rock that dominates the whole territory, it enjoys a remarkable state of conservation.

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Roman bridge of Casteldelci

In ancient times it was built in wood, the first plant dates back to Roman times, it was at the time the second bridge in the Marecchia Valley after that of Tiberius in Rimini. It has been rebuilt or remodeled several times, the last in 1790, but retains its medieval layout. The Ponte Vecchio of Casteldelci crosses the Senatello river and was in ancient times the only access route to the town from the valley below. It is, without a doubt, a small jewel that blends with the river landscape and with the sandstone outcrops that characterize the area.

Saint Peter in Messa Parish Church

The Pieve di San Pietro dates back to 1100 and was erected on the ruins of an ancient Roman temple that has now disappeared. Its admirable façade is divided into large quadrangles. The portal has a hanging porch, surmounted by a small mullioned window. The interior has three naves divided by pillars with an elevated presbytery and a crypt. The church was included by the French actor Alain Delon in his film "The First Night of Quiet".

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Parish of Santa Maria Assunta

La Pieve is the oldest religious monument of San Leo and the entire territory of Montefeltro. It is the first material testimony of the Christianization of this area of the hinterland: the primitive cell of a history that mixes and confuses with tradition.

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Credits: San Leo
Sasso Simone and Simoncello Park

The Sasso Simone and Simoncello Interregional Natural Park is a 4791-hectare territory located in the provinces of Pesaro-Urbino and Rimini, on the border with the Homonymous Tuscan Nature Reserve of the municipality of Sestino (AR), located in the heart of Montefeltro, falls in the municipalities of Carpegna, Frontino, Montecopiolo, Pian di Meleto, Pennabilli and Pietrarubbia.

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Tower of Bascio

Of the castrum Bascii or Biscii, originally belonging to the Olive Trees of Pignano, there is news since 1145, mentioned among the lands confirmed by Pope Eugene III to the Camaldolese monastery of San Salvatore di Monte Acuto.

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Cathedral of San Leo

It is certainly the highest example of medieval architecture preserved in Montefeltro and is one of the most unique and important testimonies of Romanesque-Lombard architecture. The church preserves an exceptional sculptural kit that includes, in addition to the Corinthian capitals of the third century (d.C.), numerous Romanesque capitals variously figured, the oldest of which represent the symbols of early Christianity.

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Credits: San Leo
Sulphur Museum

The Sulphur Museum sees itself as a fundamental instrument in the diffusion of the history of mining culture and of the historical reconstruction of mining activity, which, during the industrial revolution, pushed the rural economy towards a new economic fabric, a new concept and organisation of work through constant and systematic production. Mines are a vital piece in the jigsaw of our history and culture, representing an element that unites us to the past of other European countries.

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Maioletto Stronghold

The curious and fascinating fortress known as Maioletto is easy to spot from even the most isolated part of the valley.

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Sanctuary Madonna di Saiano

This fascinating solitary rocky spur rises from the water; on its summit stands an architectural complex in the heart of the Nature Oasis. The sanctuary stands on a rock and is where a miraculous Our Lady of the Rosary (16th century) is venerated by pregnant women in particular. Known as the Sanctuary of the Madonna di Saiano, it is surrounded by lush greenery and is mirrored in the lakes and water of the Marecchia river. Just a few ruins and a Byzantine-style cylindrical tower remain of the old fortifications.

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Montecopiolo's Castle

The Montecopiolo castle was built in the 10th century on the homonymous mountain relief at the behest of the bishops of Montefeltro or their emphyteutes (the Counts of Carpegna). It is located upstream of today's hamlet of Villagrande di Montecopiolo, the municipal capital of the municipality of Montecopiolo (province of Rimini), in the Montefeltro area. The remains of the castle are located at an altitude of 1,033 m a.s.l. at the watershed between the valleys of the Conca and Marecchia rivers. The area occupied by the castle reached 9,000 m².

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Credits: Wikipedia
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Carpegna Pennabilli
The 'Passo Marco Pantani' on Mount Carpegna was launched on Saturday, the first in Italy dedicated to the latest cycling great who died 19 years ago.
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