Patron saint festival
Feast of San Michele Arcangelo
📅 Every year, on 29 September
On 29 September Montecopiolo, a municipality of 1,175 inhabitants in the province of Pesaro and Urbino, celebrates its patron San Michele Arcangelo.
A dynasty comes from this castle: in 1140 the Carpegna divided their property and one of them was given the castrum Montis Cupioli; from his descendants were born the counts of Montefeltro. In 1371 a papal legate described it thus: it stands on a very high rock, it has a very strong keep, a captain with twelve pays and sixty hearths.
In 1441 it was from here that the young Federico da Montefeltro wrote to the captains of San Marino to say that he had taken San Leo from the Malatesta. No hamlet is called Montecopiolo: the town hall is at Villagrande. Since 17 June 2021 the municipality is no longer in the Marche but in the province of Rimini, in Emilia-Romagna: the inhabitants had asked for it by referendum fourteen years earlier.
🎉 Festivals and feasts in Montecopiolo 1
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🍝 The flavours of Montecopiolo
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 Montecopiolo
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside Montecopiolo, but an easy day trip away.
Museo diocesano di Rieti 📍 Rieti · 17 km Rieti's diocesan museum, a route through baptistery, sacristies, lapidarium and the Papal Palace gallery. Oratorio di San Pietro martire 📍 Rieti · 17 km The chapel of Rieti's San Domenico convent with the Torresani brothers' Last Judgement, rarely open. Amiternum 📍 L'Aquila · 22 km Sallust's Sabine city under the fields: a theatre, an amphitheatre and a whole Amiternum never excavated. chiesa di San Michele Arcangelo 📍 L'Aquila · 23 km Romanesque church at San Vittorino with fifth-century catacombs, near ancient Amiternum. Teatro romano di Amiternum 📍 L'Aquila · 22 km Augustan theatre of ancient Amiternum, near San Vittorino, with opus reticulatum walls.