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.
Read more →Monteciccardo was born of three castles joined together — itself, Montegaudio and Monte Santa Maria — after the fall of Napoleon; the name already appears in 1283 as Castrum Monti Sicardi. Since the first of July 2020 it has not been a comune any more: it has gone into Pesaro, which administers it as a municipio of its own.
The war came through here with the Gothic Line and did heavy damage. Of the castle a stretch of wall and the great tower are left; in the parish church of San Sebastiano there is a canvas by Bartolomeo Gentile da Urbino of 1508, and just outside stands the Conventino, which the Servites built in the sixteenth century.
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Outside Monteciccardo, 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.