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Private minibus tours (up to 8 persons) to Urbino
with Maurizio Manuelli

Cell: 339 45 29 858 Tel/Fax: 055 86 56 731

• Pre-organised full day Urbino tours from the Florence and the Chianti Classico area to Urbino. Fixed prices offered.

• Full day tours to Arezzo, Cortona, Sansepulcro and Assisi, or your own itinerary, starting from Florence and the Chianti Classico area.

• Pisa, Florence, Bologna and Forlì Airports, Livorno cruise ship port and Florence railway station transfers to and from your accommodation in Florence or Chianti.

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The Roman town of Urvinum Mataurense ("the little town on the river Mataurus") became an important strategic stronghold during the Gothic wars of the 6 C and was captured from the Goths in 538 by Count Belisarius on behalf of the Byzantine Emperor. Pippin presented Urbino to the Papacy and around 1200 it came into the possession of the nobles of nearby Montefeltro. They had no direct authority over the municipality, but, by means of intrigue, Bonconte di Montefeltro was elected podestà in 1213, with the result that the Urbinese rebelled, formed an alliance with the independent municipality of Rimini in 1228, and by 1234 were masters of their city again. In the struggles between Guelphs and Ghibellines, by now associated with individual families and cities, rather than the struggle between Hohenstaufen emperors and the Papacy as they had been, the 13 C and 14 C Montefeltro lords of Urbino were leaders of the Ghibellines of the Marche and in the Romagna.

The most famous member of the Montefeltro family was Federico, Lord of Urbino 1444 to 1482, a very successful condottiere, a skillful diplomat and an enthusiastic patron of the arts and literature. At his court, Piero della Francesca wrote on the science of perspective, Francesco di Giorgio Martini wrote his Trattato di architettura ("Treatise on Architecture") and Raphael's father Giovanni Santi wrote his poetical account of the chief artists of his time. Through the descriptions in Il Cortegiano ("The Book of the Courtier") written by Castiglione, Federico's brilliant court, set standards of what characterised a modern European gentleman that were valid for centuries.

Cesare Borgia dispossessed Guidobaldo da Montefeltre, Duke of Urbino, and Elisabetta Gonzaga in 1502, with the connivance of his father, Pope Alexander VI. After the Medici Pope Leo X's brief attempt to establish a young Medici as Duke, thwarted by the early death of Lorenzo II de' Medici in 1519, Urbino was ruled by the dynasty of Della Rovere dukes.

In 1626, Pope Urban VIII definitively incorporated the Duchy into the papal dominions, the gift of the weary last Della Rovere Duke in retirement after the assassination of his heir, to be governed by the archbishop. Its great library was removed to Rome and added to the Vatican Library in 1657. The later history of Urbino is part of the history of the Papal States and, after 1870, of the Kingdom (later Republic) of Italy.

Urbino: Palaces and fortresses

• Palazzo Ducale, begun in the second half of the 15 C by Federico II da Montefeltro. It houses the Galleria Nazionale delle Marche, one of the most important collection of Renaissance paintings in the world.

Piero della Francesca. The Senigallia Madonna

• Palazzo Albani (17 C)
• Palazzo Odasi
• Palazzo Passionei
• The Albornoz Fortress, built by a Papal legate in the 14 C. In 1507-1511, when the Della Rovere added a new series of walls to the city, the rock was enclosed in them. It is now a public park.
• Raphael's house and monument (1897).

Churches of Urbino

• The Duomo (Cathedral) is a church founded in 1021 on the site of a 6 C religious edifice. The 12 C was turned 90 degrees from the current one, which is a new construction also started by Federico II and commissioned to Francesco di Giorgio Martini, author of the Ducal Palace. Finished only in 1604, the Duomo had a simple plan with a nave and two aisles, and was destroyed by an earthquake in 1789. The church was again rebuilt by the Roman architect Giuseppe Valadier, the works lasting until 1801. The new church has a typical neo-classicist appearance, with a majestic dome. It houses a San Sebastian from 1557, an Assumption by Carlo Maratta (1701) and the famous Last Supper by Federico Barocci (1603-1608).
• The church of San Giovanni Battista, with frescoes by Lorenzo Salimbeni da Sanseverino
• Sant'Agostino, built in Romanesque style in the 13 C, but largely modified in the following centuries. The façade has a late-14th century almond portal in Gothic-Romanesuqe style, while the interior is greatly decorated. It houses a precious carved choir from the 6th century, manufactured for the marriage of Costanzo Sforza and Camilla of Aragona. The bell tower is from the 15th century.
• San Francesco (14 C) was originally a Gothic-Romanesque edifice of which an 18 C restoration has left only the portico and the bell tower. The interior has a nave and two aisles, and houses the Pardon of St. Francis, a 15th century work by Barocci.
• The Oratory of San Giuseppe (early 16 C) is composed of two chapels, one of which contains a 16 C presepio or Nativity scene by Federico Brandani. The stucco figures are life-sized and highly naturalistic.
• The Church of San Bernardino is located outside the town and houses the tombs of the Dukes of Urbino.

Famous natives of Urbino

• Donato Bramante was born nearby and witnessed Laurana's work going up while he was a youth
• Raphael was born in Urbino, where his family's house may be visited
• Giovanni Santi, painter and poet, father of Raphael, was born nearby
• Ottaviano Petrucci, inventor of the music print with movable type, was born nearby
• Bartolomeo Carusi, theologian and professor at Bologna and Paris
• Federico Commandini (1509), mathematician
• Federico Barocci, painter
• Federico Zuccari and Taddeo Zuccari, painters, were born nearby
• Bernardino Baldi, mathematician and writer
• Polydore Vergil or Virgil, also known as PV Castellensis, was an English historian and chronicler who remains a primary source for the Tudor period.
• Umberto Piersanti, poet
• Raffaello Carboni was the author of an important eyewitness account of the 1854 rebellion by miners in Ballarat, Australia, a defining event in Australian history.

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