Second day in Le Marche
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london1967After visiting San Marino, we went to the old town of San Leo (San Leo was San Marino's companion but the town is in Italy and not part of the Republic on San Marino).
It's a beautiful old town, in a fantastic location
The castle is considered the most impregnable in Italy due to its position on a sheer cliff
This is where the infamous adventurer/sorcerer/charlatan Cagliostro was imprisoned and died.
The next stop was the two villages of Penna and Billi, which form the town of Pennabilli - one has the ruin of a castle and the other the village itself:
Carpegna is famous for its cured ham but is also a place for 'villeggiatura' in the summer; it has the imposing Palazzo dei Principi
which, together with the Rocca of Sassocorvaro (not far from here), was used in WWII to hide more than 10,000 works of art from Florence, Venice, Milan, etc.
The last stop of the day was the town of Urbania (originally Casteldurante but renamed after a pope when it was part of the papal states)
Here we went to the
where we had a restorative cup of tea and 3 pasticcini each
It's a beautiful old town, in a fantastic location
The castle is considered the most impregnable in Italy due to its position on a sheer cliff
This is where the infamous adventurer/sorcerer/charlatan Cagliostro was imprisoned and died.
The next stop was the two villages of Penna and Billi, which form the town of Pennabilli - one has the ruin of a castle and the other the village itself:
Carpegna is famous for its cured ham but is also a place for 'villeggiatura' in the summer; it has the imposing Palazzo dei Principi
which, together with the Rocca of Sassocorvaro (not far from here), was used in WWII to hide more than 10,000 works of art from Florence, Venice, Milan, etc.
The last stop of the day was the town of Urbania (originally Casteldurante but renamed after a pope when it was part of the papal states)
Here we went to the
where we had a restorative cup of tea and 3 pasticcini each
