Urbino, treasure of Montefeltro
Urbino and its precious treasure, the great Ducal palace built by the will of the Duke Federico II of Montefeltro. Urbino is the home-place of its most famous citizen, Raffaello. Urbino and its countryside spread with tiny medieval villages and charming towns such as Urbania, where another residence belonging to the Montefeltro family is located, less famous but interesting as well.
On the same noble floor there are the Duke’s apartments where you can visit the very famous “studiolo” built by Baccio Pontelli by using a wood-inlay technique known as intarsia from the drawings by Giorgo Martini and Bramante. But the whole building deserves to be visited and the Archaeological Museum as well with its collection of sepulchral epigraphs; the underground area is interesting too. When you leave the palace, in the main square’s background featured by an Egyptian obelisk dating back to the year 580 B.C. ,you’ll see the University building founded in the XVIth century and moved to this ancient residence belonging to the Montefeltro in 1882. You mustn’t miss Raffaello’s home-place where the great artist was born and where a number of engravings and reproductions of his works as well as a few frescoes are still kept in his bedroom – a Virgin with Child ascribed to an already young talented painter.
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