Patron saint festival In 197 days
Feast of Sant'Eurosia di Jaca
📅 Every year, in May
In May Borgo Pace, a municipality of 643 inhabitants in the province of Pesaro and Urbino, celebrates its patroness Sant'Eurosia di Jaca.
Borgo Pace is the village where the Metauro is born: here the Meta and the Auro torrents meet and put together, besides their waters, the name of the longest river in the Marche. It is also the westernmost comune of the region — it became so in 2009, when the comuni of the upper Marecchia valley passed to Emilia-Romagna — and its territory drives a wedge between Tuscany and Umbria, almost all of it mountain.
For centuries the road from Sansepolcro to Urbino passed through here, and at Borgo Pace stood the inn where travellers stopped for supper, a change of horses and the night. Piero della Francesca took that road more than once, on his way to the court of the Montefeltro, and Michel de Montaigne and Joseph Furttenbach both recall it in their travel notebooks. The village was destroyed by the Germans during the war and afterwards rebuilt. In the woods around, a trade almost vanished from the rest of Italy is still practised: that of the charcoal burners, who light their kilns and cook the wood without air; at Le Conce a museum tells the story with black and white photographs.
🎉 Festivals and feasts in Borgo Pace 1
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🍝 The flavours of Borgo Pace
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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