Pesaro Urbino
Visiting Pesaro Urbino: Much is known and visited the Palazzo Ducale, characteristic for torricini that demarcate the posterior. La Casa di Raffaello is located in the street at number 57. Here you can admire a fresco in his youth, as well as the environments and furniture of the house where he lived the famous painter.
Pesaro Urbino
The Cathedral, the neo-classical style (architect Giuseppe Valadier) contains some paintings by Federico Barocci. Of particular interest is "the monastery of Santa Chiara, which saw the intervention of the famous Sienese architect Francesco di Giorgio Martini.
The Monument to Raphael (the sculptor Luigi Belli). The faculties of the Magisterium (former orphanage) and Economics (Battiferri palace) are examples of modern architecture in a balanced urban-old without creating false or historical anachronisms, and the University Colleges, located on the hill of the Capuchins, are considered globally masterpieces of the early seventies, for the density of meanings they contain. (architect Giancarlo De Carlo) Urbino For there is also Giovanni Pascoli College where he studied until the age of 12 years.
Visiting Pesaro
the Ducal Palace, now headquarters of the Prefecture, was built by Alessandro Sforza in the second half of the fifteenth century. The facade consists of an arcade of six arches supported by heavy pillars and a draft of an upper floor with five windows crowned by coats of arms, garlands and putti. On the right side (the only visible side) has the arc of the terminal and the Gothic porch, upstairs, two large windows, similar to the front but without crowning
Recently renovated (January 2006) is the Cathedral Basilica, erected on the ruins of a late-Roman building in Romanesque. The façade, in Romanesque-Gothic style, is unfinished: it has a simple ogival portal surmounted by a range of arches. Very interesting heritage mosaic [3], also recently reported to the original splendor
Already used as a prison, the massive Rocca Costanza is waiting for the new destination. Opera fifteenth a square, reinforced by cylindrical towers, is surrounded by a wide moat
A few meters from the Palazzo Ducale stands the small house of Gioachino Rossini, flanked by two typical shops of the eighteenth century. Inside the house was built a museum dedicated to the composer, consists of a collection of posters, prints, portraits. Inside the museum is also kept his spinet
Villa Imperiale, San Bartolo on the hill, built in the fifteenth century and enlarged in the next century. The rooms are decorated by authors of major importance such as Bronzino, Francesco Menzocchi, Raffaellino Colle.
