Gradara, Province of Pesaro and Urbino, Italy

The village of Gradara represents the spearhead of the cultural tourist offer of the area, a place with a medieval flavor capable of attracting a large number of visitors every day and that hardly betrays the expectations of guests. Main tower of the Gradara castle Main tower of the castle As mentioned, the village stands on a hill at an altitude of 142 meters above sea level, in a strategic position dominating the underlying valley (impossible not to see it coming from any direction, coming from Rimini in a southerly direction, or from Pesaro traveling in the direction opposite, or again from the hinterland traveling towards the sea), and has its nerve center represented by the castle located right at the top of the hill, with the main tower that rises for a further 30 meters unmistakably towering over the surrounding area. The keep was built around 1150 by the noble De Griffo family, but it was later, under the Malatesta domination of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, that the structure took on the appearance that has remained unchanged over the centuries reaching today's times, with the construction of the fortress and the double and imposing walls to protect the fortress (the external walls, interspersed with 14 crenellated towers and a fortified door, extend for almost 800 meters in length and also enclose the historic center of the town). In 1463 the castle was conquered by the hand of Federico da Montefeltro and a period began, destined to last a couple of centuries, in which the dominations of some important families such as the Sforza, the Della Rovere, the Borgias and the Medici followed one another in Gradara. In 1641 the fortress became the property of the State of the Church and underwent a slow decline, changing hands several times until it reached, now reduced to a state of ruin, in the hands of the Zanvettore family who bought it in 1920 and, through an important restoration work, brought it back to the glories of the past, as it has come to the present day. The castle is now a state property and houses a museum where it is possible to visit 14 rooms set up with period furniture and containing important works of art including the numerous frescoes by the Bolognese painter Amico Aspertini, the terracotta altarpiece by Andrea Della Robbia and the altarpiece, coming from the parish church of Santa Sofia, made in 1484 by Giovanni Santi, father of the famous painter Raffaello. GRADARA

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