With its celebrated Palazzo Ducale, and the memory of the refined Duke Federico da Montefeltro who built it, Urbino is one of the monuments of the Italian Renaissance. Today its booster go perhaps a little too far, calling it 'the ideal city of the Renaissance' and 'the most beautiful palace in the world', in doing so showing a lack of modesty that wasn't at all Federico's style. But despite the hype, Urbino does represent more clearly than any other italian town a certain facet of the Renaissance: elegance, learning and intelligent patronage combined in a relatively small place.October 2012 | Urbino, Italy
Italian Renaissance
With its celebrated Palazzo Ducale, and the memory of the refined Duke Federico da Montefeltro who built it, Urbino is one of the monuments of the Italian Renaissance. Today its booster go perhaps a little too far, calling it 'the ideal city of the Renaissance' and 'the most beautiful palace in the world', in doing so showing a lack of modesty that wasn't at all Federico's style. But despite the hype, Urbino does represent more clearly than any other italian town a certain facet of the Renaissance: elegance, learning and intelligent patronage combined in a relatively small place.October 2012 | Urbino, Italy