Patron saint festival Today
Feast of Saint Fortunatus
📅 Every year, on 14 October
On 14 October Peglio celebrates its patron Saint Fortunatus; with just 735 residents, the territory also preserves several natural caves.
Peglio stands on a great block of gypsum, looking over the upper Metauro valley. It was a Roman pagus, identified with the Pagus Pilleus of the Pentapolis: here, around 739, the Lombards loyal to king Liutprand were defeated by the Roman-Byzantine army. It was then arimannic land, that is of the free Lombards under arms, and became a fortress; it passed to the Holy See when Pepin the Short gave the whole Massa Trabaria to Saint Peter.
In 1291 pope Nicholas IV chose this castle as the safe residence of the Rector of Massa, while outside the Montefeltro, the della Faggiola and the Brancaleoni tore at each other. And it was here, in the castle's inner ward, that on 20 February 1357 cardinal Albornoz received the submission of Urbino. The church of San Fortunato is one of the oldest parish churches of the Urbino diocese: it has two crypts and a Way of the Cross in eighteenth-century terracotta, probably from the pottery workshops of nearby Casteldurante. Under Fascism Peglio was absorbed into Urbania, and became a municipality again after the Liberation.
🎉 Festivals and feasts in Peglio 1
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🍝 The flavours of Peglio
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 Peglio
The closest destinations covered by our editors, with straight-line distance.
Places to see within 25 km
Outside Peglio, but an easy day trip away.
Castellana Caves 📍 Castellana Grotte · 1.8 km A 3,348-meter karst cave system mapped in 1938, noted for its 60-meter-deep skylight and dazzling white formations. Santuario di Maria Santissima Regina del Mondo 📍 Monopoli · 6.4 km The sanctuary in the Antonelli district of Monopoli, rebuilt as a vow for the town's safety and consecrated in 1950. Rione Monti 📍 Alberobello · 13 km The 1,030 trulli of Alberobello's larger quarter, laid dry-stone to dodge a tax. Trullo Sovrano 📍 Alberobello · 12 km With walls reaching 2.70 metres in thickness, the Trullo Sovrano is the supreme example of dry-stone architecture. Fondazione Museo Pino Pascali 📍 Polignano a Mare · 13 km Puglia's only permanent contemporary art museum, set in a former slaughterhouse overlooking the sea in Polignano. Chiesa di Sant'Antonio Abate 📍 Fasano · 17 km The Observant friars' church in Fasano, with its dome, onion-spired bell tower and frescoed 1600s cloister.