Patron saint festival In 258 days
Feast of Saint Peter and Saint Paul
📅 Every year, on 29 June
On 29 June Frontino, a municipality of 313 inhabitants in the province of Pesaro and Urbino, celebrates its patrons Saint Peter and Saint Paul.
From the cellars of Palazzo Malatesta an underground passage runs out beyond the walls, and once it reached as far as the mill: that way the castle had its flour and its bread brought in without ever showing itself. Defended like this, and by a captain named Vandini, in 1522 these walls held off the siege of the Florentines commanded by Giovanni delle Bande Nere.
Just outside the village, in the convent of Montefiorentino, is the chapel that Count Carlo Oliva had built in memory of his parents: the altarpiece, of 1489, is by Giovanni Santi, the father of Raphael, and the count had himself portrayed kneeling among the saints. In the village, on the other hand, the monumental fountain is not dedicated to a prince: it is dedicated to a primary school teacher.
🎉 Festivals and feasts in Frontino 1
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🍝 The flavours of Frontino
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 Frontino
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside Frontino, but an easy day trip away.
Palazzo Ducale e Galleria Nazionale delle Marche 📍 Urbino · 9.3 km Federico's studiolo, 3.60 by 3.35 metres of inlay, and Piero della Francesca's Flagellation. Duomo di Urbino 📍 Urbino · 9.2 km The cathedral rebuilt by Valadier after the earthquakes, beside Federico da Montefeltro's Ducal Palace. Casa Santi 📍 Urbino · 9.0 km The house where Raphael was born in 1483, his father's workshop on the ground floor. Oratorio di San Giovanni Battista e Sant'Antonio abate 📍 Urbino · 9.2 km Urbino's oratory with the Salimbeni frescoes, a late gothic masterpiece. pieve di San Salvatore 📍 Rimini · 21 km Pieve di San Salvatore in Rimini, a Romanesque church on an ancient temple, with a plaque from 1318. Villa Caprile 📍 Pesaro · 23 km Seventeenth-century Baroque villa above Pesaro with an Italian garden and water games still working.