From Pesaro to Loreto
Length: 211 Km
Travel time: 3,5 h
time: 1 day
The path extends between hilly landscapes until reaching the Gola Rossa Natural Park, you will be able to enjoy suggestive landscapes among nature, castles and historic villages, also touching the Macerata coast.
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Stage by stage
Pesaro is the starting point of this itinerary. The city offers a wide cultural choice, you can start by walking through the historic center, where you can visit the birthplace of the famous composer Gioacchino Rossini (Free admission) and the museum dedicated to him where prints are exhibited, engravings, lithographs, portraits, tools, caricature, documents including autographed letters and scores, original booklets. A Forte-Piano is housed in the music room, keyboard instrument built in Venice in 1809 and some autographs of the master. At Palazzo Mosca we find the civic museums, the first room houses one of the Renaissance masterpieces: the shovel the latest example of industrial archeology in Pesaro Giovanni Bellini, the latest example of industrial archeology in Pesaro, in via dell’Abbondanza, the Domus, an archaeological area, example of a stately home from the early Roman imperial age, great impact is had with the virtual path, a real unicum in the Marche Region. Also very interesting Synagogue the latest example of industrial archeology in Pesaro 23, in the area where the Jewish ghetto established in 1632 there were two connected synagogues.
Leaving Pesaro behind us, we continue in the direction of Novilara ancient fortified village, strategic for its position, built in the fourteenth century and subject to the domination of the Malatesta, Sforza and Della Rovere. Continuing along a pleasant road you pass Poggio Castle and from here we continue towards Mondavio
In an ups and downs of soft hills you get to Mondavio, upon entering the village you feel enveloped and protected by the rustic walls of ancient red terracotta, between the houses overlooking the alleys to admire the’ severe but harmonious architecture of the Rocca. Commissioned by Giovanni della Rovere, it was built between 1482 and the 1492 by the greatest military architect of the time, the Sienese Francesco di Giorgio Martini, and is considered one of the greatest Italian expressions of the art of fortifications. Continue towards San Lorenzo in Campo, town full of charm. It preserves the original urban plan with characteristic internal lanes, access arches and castle walls with towers currently lacking only battlements. In the highest part the fortress, of which remains quite legible, under which the suggestive little square opens up “Cooking pan”. Here the severe Palazzo della Rovere overlooks, seat of the Archaeological Museum of the Territory of Suasa and of the municipal theater Mario Tiberini, the sixteenth-century Palazzo Amatori and that of the Roman princes Ruspoli. A stone's throw from the Benedictine Abbey, among the most beautiful Romanesque-Gothic monuments existing in the entire Marche region.
The next stage will take you to a mountain resort, Arcevia, a watershed between the hilly Marche countryside and the first mountains of the Umbrian-Marchigiano Apennines. In the vast complex of the former convent of S. Francesco, in addition to the Archaeological Museum, there are two collections of contemporary art dedicated to the sculptor Edgardo Mannucci and the painter Bruno d'Arcevia.
Moving around 20 Km. towards the inside we find Genga famous for its Frasassi Caves, karst caves, which we recommend visiting. The complex is made up of a series of caves, the first of which, can be visited from the current entrance, is there’Abyss Ancona, a huge cavity that has an extension of 180 x 120 m and a height of 200 m; it is so wide (beyond 2 million m3 of volume) that the Milan Cathedral could easily be contained within it.
From 1972 it is under the protection of the Frasassi Consortium, consisting of the municipality of Genga and the province of Ancona, with the aim of safeguarding and enhancing its scientific and tourist usability.
From 1 September 1974 part of the caves is open to the public, over time becoming one of the major tourist attractions of the Marche; it has been estimated that since then 12 millions of people have visited them
Continuing on our tour, we come to You are. Surrounded by one of the best preserved walls in the region, it holds the title of Unesco "exemplary city" for its ability to preserve the architectural heritage, artistic and cultural. In Jesi you can visit the Palazzo Pianetti,, significant example of eighteenth-century architecture, in 1901 which became the seat of the Civic Art Gallery., which holds the beautiful inside Galleria degli Stucchi longer than 70 meters and a sizeable group of works by Lorenzo Lotto, among which stands out the grandiose masterpiece of Altarpiece of Santa Lucia.Very interesting is the Federico II Museum: a journey through time and space, to discover the wonderful world of Frederick II of Swabia in the magical place where it all began on 26 December 1194. In the historical Palazzo Ghislieri we find sixteen thematic rooms to experience first hand the battles that marked an era, to discover the emperor's castles and fly with his hawks. Interactive installations, three-dimensional animations, multimedia content, reconstructions
Continuing on our itinerary we arrive at the final stage of our journey, Loreto. seat of the Pontifical Sanctuary of the Holy House of Loreto. E’ a must to visit the Basilica , whose very suggestive interior is a destination for pilgrims who come from all over the world to pray in front of the statue of the black Madonna. The bell tower of the Sanctuary was designed by Luigi Vanvitelli. One of the lesser known experiences, but no less fascinating to do in Loreto is the path of the Ronda walks, what the army carried out daily in defense of the Basilica to thwart attacks by the Saracens.
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