Discover Frontino

Also called: “The Montefeltro lounge”, Frontino is by population the smallest municipality in the province of Pesaro-Urbino.
Its lands are part of the Simone and Simoncello stone natural park, which give the village glimpses of truly Bucolic landscapes.

Dominated by Mount Carpegna and in which the Mutino River flows, this village is rich not only of uncontaminated nature, but also of a characteristic architecture, its streets and strongholds in fact, were erected precisely by the powerful stones of its river.
Solitary border castle of the Dukes of Montefeltro, the village underwent several vicissitudes throughout its history, the ancient Castrum Fiorentini, a hypothetized name, of Roman affiliation, was the dominion of the Lombards in the sixth century, in 1355 it became territory of the Holy See under the guidance of Cardinal E.Albornoz, and in 1522, it repelled as a last attack, until it belonged faithfully to the Montefeltro, the assault of the Malatesta, suffered at the hands of the Florentine of adoption Giovanni Delle Bande Nere.

Today this modest village, in size and certainly not in terms of testimonies, preserves numerous works of an artistic and architectural nature, the flagship of the locality is the convent of Montefiorentino, according to history it was founded by the humble friar San Francesco in 1213, and is one of the largest convents in the Marche region.
The convent includes a small cloister and preserves the Renaissance chapel of the counts Oliva, built in 1484 and attributed to Francesco DE Simone Ferruccio, which houses the altarpiece of Giovanni Santi, father of Raphael.
Those who visit Frontino can also go to the bread museum set up inside the Mill of Ponte Vecchio, of fourteenth-century origin, where they can find the ancient machinery and breathe the authentic air of the past, as well as take advantage of the excellent restaurant that today lives within its walls.

Exhibited in the church of Saints Peter and Paul, you can admire a canvas from the school of the painter Federico Barocci, (the most important painter in the area after Raphael), visit the Monastery of San Girolamo, erected in 1500 and recently restored.
In the castle walls, an artistic touch is also given by the pretty fountain, in which to cool off on hot summer days, by the Turin artist Franco Assetto, and then continue towards the locality of Pian Dei Prati and walk the paths of the Wildlife Park, to immerse yourself in what, places like this know how to give us…