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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Near Piandimeleto
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside Piandimeleto, but an easy day trip away.
Museo dell'orologio da torre 📍 Uscio · 4.3 km Four centuries of tower clocks in the Trebino workshop, where the Piacentini tower dial was built. Chiesa di Santa Margherita 📍 Avegno · 5.9 km Testana's church, with a Flemish relief that came through the port of Genoa. chiesa dei Santi Giovanni Battista e Giovanni Bono 📍 Recco · 8.4 km The bell tower was rebuilt to 55 metres, the exact height the 1943 bombs took down chiesa di Nostra Signora delle Grazie 📍 Recco · 8.5 km At Megli they venerate a 45-millimetre thorn and a Byzantine panel brought by sea in 1216 basilica di Santa Maria Assunta 📍 Camogli · 9.1 km Camogli's parish church, gilded baroque inside, built on a rock beside the old harbour Museo marinaro di Camogli 📍 Camogli · 9.2 km Ship models, pilot books and relics of a village fleet, collected by Gio Bono Ferrari from 1937