Back Itinerario romantico all'insegna della bellezza

Level of difficulty: media
Target: Wedding
Seasonality: Estate

The stages of the itinerary

  • Gabicce Mare
    Via Cesare Battisti , 66 Gabicce Mare (PU)
    0541.820611
    The stage includes the following destinations: Gabicce Mare

    Gabicce Mare is a sea town along the northern coast of the Marche region, on the Romagna border of the Marche. It stands on a small bay called the “Bay of the Angels”, in the last stretch of the Gulf of Rimini, on the northern slopes of Mount San Bartolo, housing the homonymous natural park. It's one of the Marche's busiest holiday spots with a large number of hotels.
    It is famous because of its wide sandy beach (Lido Bandiera Beach, Blue Flag in 2017), even though there are also gravel beaches and deep water. Heading south from Gabicce, following the "strada panoramica" you reach Pesaro. Along the winding coast road you'll have impressive views and a handful of charming coves and good-value fish restaurants. 

    Gabicce Mare boasts about 40 beach resorts, providing top quality facilities. That's why many families with children chose Gabicce Mare for their summer holiday. Important additional services are available, such as anti-loss bracelets offered by some resorts, nursery cabins, reading areas, entertainment activities and stroller parkings.  It is also well organized for the practice of cycle tourism: indeed, many bike hotels offer services to bike lovers. At Easter, Gabicce Mare hosts the famous Settimana Cicloturistica Internazionale (International Cycle Tourism Week). A number of sport events widens the tourist proposals, including soccer and volley matches.



      
  • Natural Park of Monte San Bartolo
    Viale Varsavia , Pesaro (PU)
    0721.268426
    The stage includes the following destinations: Tra colline e mare: il Parco Regionale del Monte San Bartolo

    Europarc Federation Certified

    The Natural Park of Monte San Bartolo covers an area of 1600 hectares of protected land; it was established in 1994; the towns included in the park are Pesaro and Gabicce Mare. It has very striking landscapes : the cliffs, narrow pebbled beaches and coves and large agricultural areas. The vegetation of Mount San Bartolo is varied: there are oaks, hornbeams and rare species such as the flax sea, the reed and the bright brooms. The park is also rich in bird life - the peregrine falcon, the honey buzzards, the seabirds, the cormorants , the heron, the mute swan live there, but other types of animals can be found : the deer, the fox, the badger, the porcupine and the weasel. Walking tours all around the protected area are fully available. Must see attractions are the ancient villages of Gabicce Monte, Casteldimezzo Fiorenzuola, Santa Marina Alta and the amazing Baia Vallugola. Cultural interesting sites are: Villa Imperiale, Villa Caprile and the archeological area near Colombarone, boasting a villa built in the III century AD.

    Info
    Paleontological Museum
    ‘’Lorenzo Sorbini’’
    P.zza Dante Alighieri 1,
    61010 Fiorenzuola di Focara, (PU)
    Tel. 0721 268426

  • Gradara
    Via Mancini , 23 Gradara (PU)
    0541964673 (Gradara Innova) -
    The stage includes the following destinations: Gradara

    A few miles from the Adriatic beach resorts, Gradara is one of the most popular Marche’s tourist destinations. Gradara boasts the Orange Flag award, it belongs to the Association of The most beautiful villages in Italy and to the National Association of Wine Cities.

    The imposing 14th century walls surrounding the town are some of the best preserved in the Marche, with their crenellated battlements and bristling towers. The single main street leads up through the city gates to the fortress at the higher end of the town. The squared fortress, a polygonal tower on the northern side, dominates the town: it was here, according to tradition, that the murder of Francesca da Rimini and her lover Paolo, the lovers immortalized by Dante in his Divina Commedia, took place in 1289. It dates back to the twelfth century, but was changed under the rule of the Malatesta and the Sforza families. Pieces of 15th century furniture, valuable frescoes and altarpieces can be admired inside. Around the castle people can walk along the Lovers’ path, which surrounds the hill. There you can enjoy a nice view of the farming landscape. In the wonderful setting of the Medieval castle there’s also a bird’s park, which is also a falconry centre ( The Teatro dell’aria” or Theatre of the air”). It’s a park of environmental education entirely dedicated to the art of falconry. Here you can enjoy exhibitions of flying birds of prey and intriguing shows with them. Must-see attractions are also the little theatre, which can accommodate 70 people; Rubini Vesin Palace, built by local artists in the second half of the 19th century and now used for several cultural events: theatre, music and literary conferences.

    The most typical dish is the "bigol," a kind of homemade spaghetti seasoned with mushroom or gravy sauce.

    The most remarkable events taking place in Gradara during the year are: Gradara d’amare ( Gradara for lovers) in February, Solstice at the castle, Thursdays at the castle ( June/September) and Siege to the castle ( July).

  • Fossombrone
    Corso Giuseppe Garibaldi , 8 Fossombrone (PU)
    0721 7231; 0721 723263
    The stage includes the following destinations: Fossombrone
    Fossombrone, once the Roman settlement of Forum Sempronii, looks splendid from afar on the slopes of the Metauro Valley. Named after the plebeian tribune Gaius Sempronius Gracco who built the forum between 133 and 126 BC, the town was laid out on a grid-like plan which ran parallel with the Flaminian Way. Excavations have brought to light the remains of a domus, or family house, with thermal heating system, and a long stretch of basalt paving running parallel to the Flaminian Way.

    ATTRACTIONS: The most remarkable religious sites include: the Church of St. Philip, the fourteenth-century Church of St. Augustine, the Church of San Francesco and the Cathedral with its neoclassical facade. Church towers and the upper storeys of larger noble palaces peep out through the terracotta roofs of the town's terraced streets, while above it stands the 15th Century Corte Alta Palace, now home of Art Gallery the Civic Museum, housing prehistoric finds and a large collection of finds dating back to Roman Forum Sempronii; must see attractions are also the sixteenth-century Palazzo Cattabeni and Palazzo Dedi. In the fortified citadel that dominates the city are the remains of the pentagonal Malatesta fortress, whose courtyard boasts the Church of S. Aldebrando. Along Via Pergamino -  in the direction of Urbino -  is the Palazzo Pergamini - Negri, which houses the  Quadreria Cesarini, containing over 60 paintings and graphic works made by Anselmo Bucci, as well as works of modern and contemporary art. Safely locked up on the edge of the town is one of Italy's most secure prisons.

    The most typical delicacies of Fossomobrone are the " Ciambella di Pasqua" (Easter ring-shaped cake), "coniglio in porchetta" (rabbit stuffed with wild fennel) and "crescia sfojata" ( stuffed flat bread). In March there is the "Fair of Bianchetto Truffle"; in May there's the Renaissance Festival  "Triumph of the Carnival".
  • Cagli
    Piazza Giacomo Matteotti , 1 Cagli (PU)
    0721.78071
    The stage includes the following destinations: Cagli
    Cagli is located on a plateau closed by the Bosso and Burano rivers. The town is bordered to the south on Mount Catria , Mount Nerone and Mount Petrano and further north on Mount Paganuccio that, with the Mount Pietralata form the steep walls of limestone massif of Furlo. Once inhabited by the Umbrians and Romans, later joined the Byzantine  mountain Pentapolis (with Fossombrone, Gubbio, Jesi and Urbino). It finally fell under the Duchy of Urbino. The hand of the great 15th  military architect Francesco di Giorgio Martini is unmistakable in the dramatic oval torrione, or tower to the west of the piazza, all that remains of the citadel that Duke Federico da Montefeltro had built above Cagli towards the end of the 15thC. The tower now houses a  Center for Contemporary Sculpture.  The most remarkable churches are : the church of San Francesco and the church of San Domenico,full of frescoes; the Cathedral, almost entirely rebuilt in the 18th century, the church of Sant'Angelo minore, the church of S. Peter, the church of Santa Maria della Misericordia, the Church of St. Joseph, the church of Santa Chiara, the church of St. Philip and St. Bartholomeo , decorated several paintings by  Gaetano Lapis, the famous painter born in Cagli. Must see attractions in Cagli are: the medieval Public Palace (now the Town Hall and the Archaeological Museum); the fifteenth century Palazzo Preziosi-Brancaleoni, the sixteenth century Palazzo Tiranni-Castracane and the 19th century Municipal Theatre. The most important Roman site is Mallio Bridge, built during Roman republican time.  The "Game of the Goose" that was held in Cagli in 1543, currently takes place in August.
  • Sant'Angelo in Vado
    Piazza Umberto I , 1 Sant'Angelo in Vado (PU)
    0722.88455
    The stage includes the following destinations: Sant'Angelo in Vado
    Sant'Angelo in Vado is a town located along the valley of the Metauro river, at the foothills of the Apennines flanking the main road leading up to the Bocca Trabaria (m.1044). The town was once the Roman Tiphernum Metaurense and when rebuilt after the wars between the Byzantines and Ostrogoths was dedicated to the Archangel Michael, hence its name Sant'Angelo. In the mid-fourteenth century was under the Brancaleoni family and later became of the duchy of Urbino. The old town is full of beautiful monuments:  the fourteenth-century Palazzo della Ragione dominated by contemporary Civic Tower ('el Campanon'); the eighteenth-century cathedral, the ancient palaces Santinelli, Griffins, Clavari Mercuri and the seventeenth-century Palazzo Fagnani (majestic town hall since 1838). The most remarkable churches are: the church of St. Mary extra muros,  with the adjacent former convent of the Servi di Maria, the church of St. Clare with its monastery, the church of Santa Caterina del Corso and Santa Caterina delle Bastarde;  the seventeenth-century octagonal church of St. Philip and the oratory of the Immaculate, San Bernardino, St. Francis and St. Mary of the Angels with the sixteenth-century cloister. One of the most remarkable sights in the town is the Domus del Mito, or House of the Myth, the remains of a 1st century BC Roman villa with some 1,000 square metres of elaborate, polychrome mosaics. Only recently discovered, they represent some of the finest ancient Roman discoveries in central Italy over the last half century. Another spectacular room is the triclinium depicting a hunting scene surrounded by a festive repertoire of geometric patterns in black and white. The town is the birthplace of a number of important Baroque artists and architects including the brothers Taddeo and Federico Zuccari, who achieved fame in Rome during the second half of the 16th century. Sant'Angelo in Vado is the capital of Tartufo bianco pregiato (White Truffle); during the last weekends of October the town hosts the Mostra Nazionale del Tartufo Bianco Pregiato (National White Truffle Fair), an excellent chance to taste white truffles and see the town decked out to look its best. The town also boasts  a Research Centre of Truffle.