Ducal Palace
Slender towers.
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Urbino is a hill town in the Marche region of central Italy, southwest of Pesaro, about 30 km southwest of Pesaro and 134 km southeast of Bologna in a straight line. Its historic centre is a UNESCO World Heritage Site for its Renaissance cultural legacy. The town flourished in the 15th century under the patronage of Federico da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino from 1444 to 1482, becoming one of the great centres of the Renaissance. Its best-known building is the Palazzo Ducale, rebuilt by Luciano Laurana. It is home to the University of Urbino, founded in 1506. The town piles up on a sloping hill with walls and houses of warm brown brick, crowned by the slender towers of the Ducal Palace and the cathedral dome. Green Apennine hills surround it, and the brick glows gold at sunset. Visitors tour the Ducal Palace and the National Gallery of the Marche inside it, and wander the lanes that climb and drop between squares. It is a lively university town, and the best view of it is from the facing hill at sunset.
Slender towers.
Up and down.
Golden brick.
Urbino, Pesaro and Urbino, Marche, Italy
From the facing hill at sunset.
By bus from Pesaro.