Patron saint festival In 300 days
Feast of Saint Lawrence
📅 Every year, on 10 August
On 10 August Tavoleto, a municipality of 894 inhabitants in the province of Pesaro and Urbino, celebrates its patron Saint Lawrence (san Lorenzo).
Tavoleto lies in the Montefeltro, and for two centuries it was a prize: fortified by the Malatesta, it was fought over relentlessly with the Montefeltro, until it stayed with the latter. Federico of Urbino, once he finally owned the castle, did not want to keep it as it was: he had it pulled down in 1458 and rebuilt to his own taste by Francesco di Giorgio Martini, who finished the work before 1474. The village then passed to the Papal States.
On 31 March 1797 the people rose against the French army, and the reprisal was total: the village was razed to the ground and most of its inhabitants killed. The castle, sacked and burnt, stayed a ruin for more than a century: only in 1924 did the son of Count Ferdinando Petrangolini begin the work that gave it its present shape. The municipality also has an oddity on the map: the hamlets of Ripamassana and Valle Fuini are detached from the rest of its territory, wedged among other municipalities and next to another exclave.
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🍝 The flavours of Tavoleto
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 Tavoleto
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside Tavoleto, but an easy day trip away.
chiesa dei Santi Gervasio e Protasio 📍 Belluno · 12 km A thirteenth-century church in Belluno divided in two by a wall, between the faithful and the enclosed nuns. basilica cattedrale di San Martino 📍 Belluno · 14 km Belluno's cathedral, rebuilt by Tullio Lombardo in the sixteenth century, with Juvarra's bell tower. chiesa di San Rocco 📍 Belluno · 14 km Belluno's votive church, born of the plague of 1530, in Castellavazzo stone, with a canvas by Gaspare Diziani. chiesa di Santo Stefano 📍 Belluno · 14 km The Servites' Gothic church in Belluno, in white and red stone, with Brustolon's angels and a 24-hour clock. chiesa di Sant'Aronne 📍 Belluno · 16 km The parish church of Cusighe, in Belluno, with an altarpiece by Girolamo Denti and a Last Supper by Paris Bordon. chiesa di San Liberale 📍 Belluno · 16 km A very old little church on the hill of Pedeserva, in Belluno, with a stone-slab roof and a crypt.