Author: Marco Bigini

GOLF CLUB “ALPE DELLA LUNA” AT JUST FEW MINUTES AWAY FROM OUR HOTEL

Golf Club Alpe della Luna

Via Taramone 2 61040 Borgo Pace PU

info@golfalpedellaluna.it +39 339 2701581

Just minutes from our hotel, at the Alpe della Luna golf club, which is born in the countryside of Montefeltro, more precisely in the nearby town of Borgo Pace.

There are currently available and playable six of the new holes of the general design, while the practice field has over 10 carpet locations (you can also practice from the ground). The club also benefits from a newly inaugurated pool, a bar, a restaurant and a beautiful Club House. Covered posts and putting green lighting will soon be available.

Opening time: From 01/10 to 31/03 is open from Tuesday to Sunday from 08:30 to 18:00 From 01/04 to 31/09 is open daily from 08:30 to 18:00 (Sunday until 20:00).

Prices: Green fee Practice: € 7,00 Coin balls: € 1.00 Green fee 12/18 holes (including changing room, showers): € 15,00 Rental Car: € 3,00 Bag rental: € 10,00 Golf Cart Rental: € 20,00

IN ALL THOSE PRICES, WHEN YOU RESERVE TELLING YOUR’RE FORM OUR HOTEL, YOU WILL GET A 20% DISCOUNT!!!

 

Wine experience in the north of Marche by Boutique Hotel Bramante & Spa

Wine experience in the north of Marche


Welcome to Boutique Hotel Bramante Spa in the North of the Marche, completely renovated for you! You will be welcomed into one of our 13 spacious and comfortable rooms, carefully furnished and attentive to your needs; And you will be spoiled by the specialties of our Wellness Service!Boutique Hotel Bramante Spa is located in Urbania in the center of “The Wine Streets of the Pesaro and Urbino Provinces”, a charming and quiet village surrounded by vineyards, set on a natural and sunny terrace overlooking the valley of Candigliano.
An area where nature is kept intact, surrounded by a generous campaign of olive groves, vineyards and orchards immersed in the tranquility of a landscape characterized by ancient villages and convents. A land of ancient traditions, good gastronomy and products
Genuine, where the green of the hills blends into the blue of the Adriatic through panoramic terraces, in the form of silence and quiet tones.
Here, where the countryside produces an oil that has received DOP recognition for its high quality, pecorino cheese from the work of skilled people, and where abundant fruit crops and sausage cuts work, the way of taste originates.All the hotel is at your disposal W-Lan, all rooms are accessible by elevator and come with internet connection and satellite TV.
Your holidays will start with a rich breakfast buffet,The “heart” of the renovated structure is the magnificent SPA-Wellness Center with:Swimming pool with hydromassage and waterfall
– Finnish sauna, temperature 80-90 ° C – Humidity 10-20%
– Turkish bath, temperature 40-50 ° C – Humidity 100%
– Saline sauna with warm Himalayan salt ionized in air, temperature 40-50 ° C – Humidity 50-60%
– Emotional showers
– Cold well
– Relax area with heated water beds. Water mattress temperature: 30-36 °C

It tastes the idea of ​​spending the holiday days in an absolutely quiet and sunny setting? If yes, Boutique Hotel Bramante Spa is what it is for you! We always do our best so that our days are really days of quiet relaxation.

What to do in Urbania:the mummies cemetery!

A plethora of chills! Today, we suggest, among the things to do absolutely to Urbania, the visit to the Church of the Dead, where 18 mummified bodies are naturally visited and studied by curious people all over the world!

Urbania mummies:  a natural miracle


The Church of the Dead, or Chapel Cola until 1836, in Urbania, still houses the so-called cemetery of mummies. Discovered two centuries ago, the bodies of 12 men and 6 women still challenge the laws of nature today. This is a phenomenon of natural mummification, but many years ago they were considered fairy bodies for the exceptional state of conservation.

This condition of integrity, including internal organs and apparatus, is due to the climatic and geologic conformation of Urbania that produced a dehydration of the tissues thanks to the constant ventilation, to the subsequent protection from natural molds.

Urbania’s mummy cemetery and the  relative register


Thanks to the reports of the “Brotherhood of Good Death”, recorded by the church, each one is able to know personal history: there is a deceased young woman who has been caesarean, a young stabbed, or the mummy of the unfortunate who was buried alive in a state of apparent death.

Unfortunately, the finds have never been subjected to carbon dating.

They are currently exposed behind the crypt of the main altar of the church and are visible to the public.

There are still many questions that revolve around these mummies, so much to arouse interest and attract tourists from all over the world.

Credits image highlights: urban-casterdurante.it

Below we present a Rai Uno service dedicated to the mummies custodian that made it accessible to the public: Giovanni Maestrini.

(tel. 349 8195469)

 

Along the climbs that lead to the summit of Mount Carpegna, the preferred training place of the great and unlucky champion

Just a few miles from us, those who love the road bike can retrace a famous and beautiful circuit as difficult as Marco Pantani loved so much. Along the climbs that lead to the summit of Mount Carpegna, the preferred training place of the great and unlucky champion.

Numerous scripts dedicated to him in every corner of the climb: a nostalgic and exciting touch that remains printed in the heart.

 

Svevo Pedivella Cippo Carpegna Pantani

Svevo Pedivella Cippo Carpegna Pantani

Image Credits: Svevo Pedivella

Carpegna is enough for me!” We discover together the most popular climb by champion Marco Pantani

Marco Pantani was very  appreciated our area; and he loved to train himself on Mount Carpegna.

The route, cyclists know, is a very complex cocktail of fatigue and endurance: 115km and a difference of 1,800 meters on roads that span over marvelous panoramas.
Marco Pantani traveled through these streets made famous by his phrase “Il Carpegna just enough” because he felt it was superfluous to climb the Dolomites for the workouts: the climbs of Carpegna were more than sufficient to prepare his countless victories.

Among the routes reported by our brochure for cyclists, the first came to our minds could only be that dedicated to the great champion. Moreover, the Cippo di Carpegna is easily reachable from our hotel (less than 30 kilometers away).

 

Panteni cippo

 

The Pantani Day and the foundation Marco Pantani Onlus

Marco Pantani is still alive in our memory.

There are many initiatives that remind you of it (on the site of your foundation you find all the initiatives dedicated to him).

The PANTANI DAY was born 5 years ago by an idea of Evelina Zanda, referent of the ASD Funtos Bike and Luca Demozzi, a renowned instructor in Trentino. Exposed the project at Funtos Bike, he immediately received his consent and from that day became an annual stage in the official journal of the Marco Pantani ONLUS Foundation.

The first ever to climb on the stage and to make the first hour as an instructor in the first PANTANI DAY in the far 2013, was Marco Della Vedova, former professional cyclist who had the honor to race in the Mercatone One team together with Marco Pantani.

 

 

 

Guided Tours: the best of Marche at your complete disposal!

Choose the best and the beautiful of Marche!

In collaboration with the “Il Cerchio” Cooperative, we can offer you the following excursions, all with certified guide. These are people who really love their work and that makes a difference!

Ask us for information: we will contact Cristina and Massimo to organize a wonderful experience of wellness and beauty in the Marches.

URBINO, Capital of the Italian Renaissance was the city of Duke Federico da Montefeltro, one of the greatest leaders and humanists of his time. Federico da Montefeltro became Lord of Urbino and Montefeltro at the age of 22 years after the death of the brother-in-law Oddantonio, but he was already Lord of the State of Massa Trabaria, with the capital Sant’Angelo in Vado following the marriage with Gentile Brancaleoni. With him the culture became a lifestyle and the Ducal Palace of Urbino, described by Baldassar Castiglione “… .. a city-shaped palace …”, a crossroads of the greatest thinkers and artists. The Palace, “Italian Renaissance Cradle”.

CAGLI, the ancient Cales, was an important Roman city that was part of the Byzantine Pentapoli, unfortunately during the invasions was destroyed and subsequently rebuilt on the Hill of the Vail.

In 1287 the city of Cagli was again destroyed by a fire set at the Palazzo Comunale by the Ghibelline faction supported by Trasmondo Brancaleoni of Roccaleonella but in 1289, by Pope Nicolò IV’s will, the city was rebuilt ex novo and from the Banderuola hill fell on Pianoro, incorporated the pre-existing village and took the name of Sant’Angelo Papale.

Cagli, the free commune, gave the Palazzo Comunale to Federico da Montefeltro and from that moment on he followed the fate of the Duchy of Urbino until the year 1631 of devolution to the Pontifical State.

MERCATELLO SUL METAURO is a medieval medieval village where time has not completely affected its structure. Famous because it is the birthplace of a Doctor of the Church or Santa Veronica Giuliani. Inside the church of St. Francis of the thirteenth century it is possible to see the Eternal with the Tripartite Globe, the Crucifix of Pietro da Rimini and the portrait of Federico da Montefeltro (Lord of Urbino) with Ottaviano Ubaldini.

SANT’ANGELO IN VADO is one of the 100 most beautiful villages in Italy. Sant’Angelo in Vado is a land of knowledge and flavor that knowledge that has enabled a land so out of the classical tourist circuits and the fast communication routes to be a tourist destination because of its wealth of history, art and culture. Those knowledge that made the ancient Tifernum Mataurense, today Sant’Angelo in Vado, known as the Roman City Hall and as a capital during the medieval and Renaissance times of the State of Massa Trabaria. It is one of the richest cities in history, art and culture in the province of Pesaro and Urbino. Its history is related to important and powerful families such as Brancaleoni, Montefeltro and Della Rovere.

PIOBBICO, the origin of the name Piobbico dates back to Roman times, the term publicum mutes in plobicum to become plobic and finally Piobbico. The history of the village identifies itself with the Brancaleoni family. Around the year 1000 the territory was entrusted as a feud to this family that reigned for almost five centuries. The Castle, the suburb, the churches, the whole old part of the country, and the various villas and villages around, date back to this period, and then, following the abolition of feudalism, they are incorporated into the village of Piobbico. Since the beginning of the XII century Piobbico was the Lord of the Brancaleoni who came to dominate the whole Massa Trabaria. He first opposed the Albornoz, then to Pope Martino V, and became half of the 15th estate of the Montefeltro, and then followed the fate of the Urbino ducat. On December 21, 1827, by decree of Leo XII Piobbico becomes autonomous, and the coat of arms will be a naked arm that holds an oak.

URBANIA Destroyed by Montefeltro Castello delle Ripe renacque under the name of Casteldurante, was one of the most important cities for the production of pottery and majolica. Cipriano Piccolpasso wrote “The Three Books of the Potter’s Art” …. In which it is not only the practice, but briefly all the secrets of it which even nowadays has always been kept hidden.

Casteldurante changed name once again and became the current Urbania. Francesco Maria II died, the town dressed in mourning, the lighting went out and the torches came on; Casteldurante like all the Duchy of Urbino and Massa Trabaria said goodbye to his Dukes and became part of the Pontifical State.

SAN LEO was the capital of Italy for the will of King Berengar II, the land of Malatesta and Montefeltro thanks to the sting that Federico da Montefeltro ordained with his Captain Grifoni of Sant’Angelo in Vado. Visiting St. Leo and the Fort is like taking a leap in the past; The Bembo called him “an improbable war instrument …”. It is famous because it was the prison where the alchemist, the taumaturgo, the magician, the incredible Giuseppe Balsamo, told Count of Cagliostro, “… a man outside of every time and place …”. After 4 years 4 months 4 days of imprisonment he died.