Patron saint festival In 109 days
Feast of Saint Blaise
📅 Every year, on 3 February
On 3 February Piandimeleto celebrates its patron Saint Blaise, to whom the town's church is dedicated; in July the Palio dei conti Oliva takes place.
Piandimeleto belongs to the Montefeltro, and part of its territory is detached: the hamlet of Pirlo lies on its own between Lunano, Sassocorvaro and Urbino. The village was held by the Oliva counts, of Germanic origin, who in the fifteenth century rebuilt the fortress, crowned it with merlons and enriched its rooms; when the house died out in the next century it all passed to the Church.
The municipal archive was destroyed during the French occupation at the end of the eighteenth century, and what survives, twenty-nine manuscript registers, came back inside a private bequest: that of Ugo Ubaldi, grand master of the Alto Tevere lodge, who in 1956 left the town his papers, his books and his house to hold the library. The first, public and lending, dated from 1869.
🎉 Festivals and feasts in Piandimeleto 1
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🍝 The flavours of Piandimeleto
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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Places to see within 25 km
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Porta Mosa 📍 Cremona · 7.3 km The last gate left in Cremona, medieval in origin, with a sixteenth-century archway and the bastion of San Giorgio. Chiesa di San Sisto 📍 Piacenza · 20 km Renaissance church in Piacenza that kept Raphael's Sistine Madonna, with the tomb of Margaret of Austria. Palazzo Farnese 📍 Piacenza · 20 km Great Farnese palace of Piacenza designed by Vignola, home to the civic museums with the Etruscan liver and Botticelli. Chiesa delle Benedettine 📍 Piacenza · 20 km Deconsecrated Baroque church of 1681 built by the Farnese, with a double church for nuns and faithful and a great dome. Basilica di San Savino 📍 Piacenza · 21 km Romanesque basilica in Piacenza with a Baroque façade of 1721, a crypt with zodiac mosaics and Saint Sabinus's relics. Violin Museum 📍 Cremona · 24 km Housed in Cremona's Palazzo dell'Arte, this museum displays masterpieces by Stradivari and the city's greatest luthiers.