Patron saint festival In 28 days
Feast of Saint Martin
📅 Every year, on 11 November
On 11 November Apecchio celebrates its patron Saint Martin; the town is also home to the Palazzo Ubaldini, in the historic centre.
At the end of the fifteenth century a small Jewish community lived at Apecchio, some thirty people: in the statutes that count Ottaviano Ubaldini gave the castle in 1492 there are chapters regulating their trades. They stayed more than a hundred and thirty years, until 1631, when the duchy of Urbino passed to the Holy See and the Jews were moved to the ghettos of Pesaro, Senigallia and Ancona.
Their quarter is still there, and round it runs the «giro d'aria»: an alley twenty-eight metres long and less than half a metre wide, among the narrowest in Italy, which bounds the whole block, with the little courtyard where the feast of Tabernacles was kept, the synagogue and the oven. Not far off, in one of the hamlets, there is instead a wooden globe ten metres across, on three floors, that turns like the Earth.
🎉 Festivals and feasts in Apecchio 1
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🍝 The flavours of Apecchio
Casciotta d'Urbino soft cheese of sheep's and cow's milk, delicate flavour
Sheep's and cow's milk, aged twenty to thirty days: casciotta d'Urbino, Michelangelo's favourite cheese, has been DOP since 1996.
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Near Apecchio
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside Apecchio, but an easy day trip away.
Chiesa di Sant'Ignazio di Loyola 📍 Carpi · 11 km Jesuit church of 1670-1682 in Carpi, on a Greek-cross plan, with scagliola altars and the diocesan museum. Basilica cattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta 📍 Carpi · 11 km Carpi cathedral begun in 1514 to Peruzzi's design, reopened in 2017 after the 2012 earthquake. Chiesa di Santa Maria in Castello 📍 Carpi · 12 km Romanesque pieve of 1184, the oldest church in Carpi, with a Peruzzi façade and twelfth-century frescoes. Chiesa di San Bernardino da Siena 📍 Carpi · 12 km Patron church of Carpi, begun in 1604, with the reliquary bust of Saint Bernardino of Siena.