Day 1
˜Ore 15.30 - Arrival in Mercatello Metauro accommodation at Farmhouse Il Casale del Barone.
˜Ore 18.00 – Orientation talk about the Tour.
˜Ore 19.00 Pre-Dinner based on tipical local bio product.
˜Ore 20.30 Dinner at Il Casale del Barone restaurant.
˜Free time evening – Guests may visit Mercatello sul Metauro, Sant'Angelo in Vado, Borgo Pace, spending time in tipical local.
Overnight
Day 2
˜Ore 8:30 Breakfast in agritourism fallowed by bus tour to:
˜Cagli
Frontone
Piobbico
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Ore 13:00 Lunch at "Taverna della Rocca" in Frontone. Tipical medieval restaurant.
˜Ore 18:30 Return to Agritourism
Ore 20.00 Dinner at Il Casale del Barone restaurant
Overnight
Mercatello sul Metauro is a municipality in the Province of Pesaro e Urbino located about 100 km west of Ancona and about 50 km southwest of Pesaro.
Main sights: Pieve Collegiata (with walls from the originary 10th century Romanesque edifice), rebuilt in 1363; Gothic church of St. Francis (13th century), wit ha notable collection of paintings from the 12th-17th centuries (including a portrait of Federico III da Montefeltro attributed to Benedetto da Maiano or Francesco di Giorgio Martini); Ducal Palace (15th century), also attributed to Francesco di Giorgio Matrini;
Palazzaccio (16th century).
Mercatello sul Metauro
Urbania ancient Casteldurante
It is a famous ceramics and majolica production centre. In recent years, it has become more closely associated with the Befana folk tradition. Originally known as Castel delle Ripe, it was a free commune of the Guelph party. In 1277 it was destroyed by the Ghibellines, then rebuilt by the Provençal Guillaume Durand in 1284 and christened Castel Durante. In 1631 it became part of the Papal States. Five years later its name changed to the current one, in honor of Pope Urban VIII. Main Sights: Ducal Palace, housing a museum and a library with globes made by the Flemish-born, German natural scientist Gerardus Mercator between 1541 and 1551. Chiesa dei Morti (Church of the Dead), with 18 natural mummies from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance exposed behind the altar. The Medieval Walls. Barco Ducale erected in 1465.
Cagli
The origins of Cagli are very ancient, maybe in the VI century AD. One of the most famous monument is the "Torrione". Tha ancient "Torrione" was built in the year 1481. The mighty war machine, designed by Francesco di Giorgio Martini, after having been captured in June 1502 by Valentino with a ruse, was partially dismantled before the second new invasion of the Duchy of Urbino by the Borgia. Cagli was one of the most important place of the history of the Italian Middle Age.
Main Sights: San Pietro di Massa Abbey, Santa Maria Nuova Abbey, Castle of Naro, Palazzo Berardi Mochi-Zamperoli (1600), Palazzo Felici, Palazzo Preziosi Brancaleoni, and the "Mallio Bridge" of Roman Republic epoch.
Meals
Restaurant: Meals are served in a charming restaurant, situated in the ancient cellar with original arch. Meals include: rustic appetizer with cheese and meat, produced by Il Casale del Barone farm; Homemade pasta; meat and vegetables produced by the farm; cakes, wood oven baked, coffee and wild rose brandy.
Including a bottle of wine, red or white, produced by Guerrieri Company in Piagge (PU) and water.
Apartments and Rooms
Info e booking
Price per person:
€ 460,00 (room and board, guide visits to castles, transfers to castles and entrance tickets are included)
Info e Booking: http://vacanzagriturismo.wix.com/tuttoagriturismo#!contact/c3kh
Day 4
˜Ore 8:30 Breakfast in agritourism fallowed by bus tour to:
Mercatello sul Metauro
˜Urbania
˜Ore 13:00 Lunch at Il Casale del Barone restaurant.
Return to home
Frontone
The history of Frontone is mainly linked to its castle, contested by princes and warriors to dominate the surrounding villages. Frontone represents one of the clearest examples of military architecture of the eleventh century. For long period, was submited to the jurisdiction of Cagli and then to that of Gubbio. From 1291 to 1420 the Lords of Frontone were the Gabrielli of Gubbio. Gabrielli wer overthrown by Guidantonio Count of Urbino. For over a century, Frontone was part of the of the most famous family of Montefeltro and Della Rovere. In 1445, Sigismondo Malatesta of Rimini in the war against the Duke Federico da Montefeltro, tried to take away the Castle, but the personal intervention of Duke Federico, put Malatesta on the run.
Piobbico
Although the area was settled in Etruscan and Roman times, Piobbico is known from the Middle Ages as the seat of Brancaleoni lords, who held it from c. 1000 until the 19th century. Starting from the 12th century they ruled over the whole Massa Trabaria, until, after their opposition to Papal commander Gil de Albornoz and Pope Martin V they gave away their title of Duke to Federico Montefeltro in 1474, before receiving from the same Federico Montefeltro the coat of arms of the Duke of Urbino. Again in 1576, the Duke was given an oath of loyalty from Antonio Brancaleoni. After the male lineage of Brancaleoni ended, on the 25th of May 1729, the church took judicial control from the Brancaleoni family for just three years - after this, a papal bill extended the rights to Piobbico to the female line of the family - it thus stayed in the family's control until 1816.
Gradara
The ancient town is characterized by a double line of medieval walls and by the massive Castle, one of the best preserved in Italy. It is famous as being the location of the episode of Paolo and Francesca described by Dante Alighieri in the V Canto of his Inferno. The construction of the castle was begun in the 12th century by Pietro and Ridolfo del Grifo. Later, Malatesta da Verucchio captured the Grifo tower, which became the mastio of the current castle, which was to be finished in the 15th century.
After the Malatesta seignory, the town was conquered by the Sforza in the September 1289. Here, in 1494, arrived Lucrezia Borgia, wife of Giovanni Sforza. After a short domination of Lucrezia's brother, Cesare, Gradara was handed over to the della Rovere. After the end of the latter's dynasty, the city was administrated directly by the Popes.
San Leo
San Leo is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Rimini in the Italian region Emilia-Romagna, located about 135 kilometres (84 miles) southeast of Bologna and about 35 km (22 mi) southwest of Rimini. San Leo is home to a large fortress at an altitude of 600 metres above sea level. The Fortress of San Leo is a castle on the border of the Marche and Romagna regions of central Italy, and famous as the death-place of Count Cagliostro. It contains a museum.
It was one of the palaces owned by Federico da Montefeltro and his wife Battista Sforza and was a fortified, palatial retreat.
Fortress of San Leo It played a large part in the 1991-film Hudson Hawk as the fictional castle of Leonardo Da Vinci.
Day 3
˜Ore 8:30 Breakfast in agritourism fallowed by bus tour to:
Gradara
San Leo
˜Ore 13:00 Lunch at Mastin Vecchio Restaurant
˜Ore 15:00 Visit to Rocca di San Leo
˜Ore 18:30 Return to Agritourism
Ore 20.00 Dinner at Il Casale del Barone restaurant
Overnight
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