Description of a land in the Marche at the boundaries with Tuscany and Umbria

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In the first middle age was shelter for many populations that in the late middle age founded there their towns which still maintain their original urbanistic phisionomy with their churches and paintings of the Riminese School which was influenced by Giotto.</font></p> <p><font face="Century Gothic, Helvetica, Verdana, Arial">Situated along the road that goes from Florence to Urbino, the Alto Metauro has been very important during Humanism and Renaissance, when it became part of the Montefeltro Ducat. Of this culture it has kept many significant monuments and paintings; it couldn't have been different for a place which had close relations with Borgo San Sepolcro (town of Piero Della Francesca) and Urbino (birth town of Raffaello),both these places are reachable in 30 min. by car.</font></p> <p><font face="Century Gothic, Helvetica, Verdana, Arial">Together with art and history, the Alto Metauro is a very fashionable place for its nature which offers to the visitor the green of its hills and the blue of the clear water of its river that is the backbone of the whole region.</font></p> <p><font face="Century Gothic, Helvetica, Verdana, Arial">A place cultivated with meticulous care by people who loved it and understood it, people who adapted it to their life without violating it, as the many houses in grey stones show. These men have been able to live in close relation with it and gave birth to a civilization proud of their land.</font></p> <p><font face="Century Gothic, Helvetica, Verdana, Arial">Of its ancient and noble origin, the Alto Metauro still maintains the memories and the traditions from which people take the opportunity to look forward through the touristic activities, homecraft and industry. </font></td> <td width="1" rowspan="4" bgcolor="#804040"><img src="../../Ambiente/immagini-ambiente/Un_pixel_v.GIF" alt="Un_pixel_v.GIF (807 byte)" WIDTH="1" HEIGHT="1"></td> <td width="149"><img src="../../Descrizione/Palazzo%20della%20Ragione.JPG" alt="Palazzo della Ragione.JPG (14115 byte)" hspace="3" WIDTH="149" HEIGHT="282"></td> <td width="10"><img src="../../Ambiente/immagini-ambiente/Un_pixel_v.GIF" alt="Un_pixel_v.GIF (807 byte)" WIDTH="1" HEIGHT="1"></td> <td width="149" valign="bottom"><font SIZE="-2" face="Century Gothic, Helvetica, Verdana, Arial">Sant'Angelo in Vado: Palazzo della Ragione (XIV cent.) municipality residence till 1838.</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="149"><p align="right"> </p> <p align="right"> </p> <p align="right"> </p> <p align="right"> </p> <p align="right"><font SIZE="-2" face="Century Gothic, Helvetica, Verdana, Arial">Mercatello sul Metauro, San Francesco Church: Giovanni Baronzio, Polyptic of the Madonna on the Throne (1345 ?) particular.</font> </td> <td width="10"></td> <td width="149"><img SRC="../../Descrizione/Polittico_Barronzio_particolare.JPG" ALT="Polittico Della Madonna in trono (G. Barronzio, particolare).JPG (20711 byte)" WIDTH="149" HEIGHT="233"></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="149"><img SRC="../../Descrizione/Scorcio_sul_fiume_Auro.JPG" ALT="Scorcio sul fiume Auro.JPG (11129 byte)" WIDTH="149" HEIGHT="220"></td> <td width="10"></td> <td width="149"> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p><font SIZE="-2" face="Century Gothic, Helvetica, Verdana, Arial">Borgo Pace:</font> <br> <font SIZE="-2" face="Century Gothic, Helvetica, Verdana, Arial">a foreshortening of the Auro in Parchiule(the Auro flowing into the Meta makes the Metauro)</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="149"><p align="right"> </p> <p align="right"> </p> <p align="right"> </p> <p align="right"> </p> <p align="right"> </p> <p align="right"><font SIZE="-2" face="Century Gothic, Helvetica, Verdana, Arial">Some farmhouses in the green of the vegetation.</font> </td> <td width="10"></td> <td width="149"><img SRC="../../Descrizione/case.JPG" ALT="case.JPG (18276 byte)" WIDTH="160" HEIGHT="242"></td> </tr> </table> </center></div>  </body>