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The
Terra del Duca is made up of the lands that belonged to the
ancient Dukedom of Urbino; the complex progress of history,
as it has unfolded slowly over the course of the centuries,
has meant that today, this area covers part of the Marches
region and part of the Pesaro-Urbino and Ancona provinces,
along with a strip of Umbria, with the towns of Gubbio, Costacciaro
and Scheggia. It borders with Tuscany and with Emilia Romagna.
A tour around the Terra del Duca leads you through rolling
hills, from the Apennines to the Adriatic Sea, and takes you
on an extraordinary journey through time, from Prehistory
to the present day, in a continual stream of fascinating sights
and emotions.
There are lots of things to see in the countryside, still
uncontaminated by pollution and studded with the valleys of
the Marecchia, Conca, Foglia, Metauro, Cesano and Misa rivers,
set deep in an area where the works of men stand out in the
villages that they have created – villages which have remained
intact with their rich store of monuments and history, surrounded
by hand-cultivated farmland that offers genuine, typical products,
full of ancient flavours.
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The
Terra del Duca is still today, just as it has always
been, a comfortable place for human beings, able to
offer a new lifestyle that follows the natural rhythms
of time. The extraordinary unity of style in its cultural
and artistic treasures reflects over four and a half
centuries of common history: from the governments of
the Montefeltro and the Della Rovere families, to the
Pesaro-Urbino Legation, and to the Unification of Italy,
these lands have all shared the same, fascinating destiny.
Its uniqueness, in the range of what it offers the tourist,
is in being made up of lots of important towns, already
capitals of their own areas, and of the model-towns
of the eight dukes of Montefeltro and Della Rovere who
governed it over the years.
Capital cities, model-towns, fortified villages, forts,
castles and churches fully justify this new, virtual
representation of the Terra del Duca.
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