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More about the Cities

Urbino and Camerino

The Renaissance in Le Marche has it's own characteristics, very similar to the Renaissance in Tuscany en Umbria.

During the excursions we visit Le Marche's most important Renaissance cities, Urbino and Camerino.

The Renaissance Court of Urbino was frequented by scholars, artists and architects who made Urbino grow out to an important centre for architecture, painting, sculpture and 15th Century humanism, comparable with the Medici Court at Florence at that time. At urbino we visit the Palazzo Ducale with it's large collection of Renaissance Art, and the native home of Raphael.

The artist from Camerino are famous for the discovery of light and perspective in painting, stimulated by the many commissions of the duchy Da Varano of Camerino. We visit the Municipal Museum with 15th Century painting and sculpture and we make a guided walk through the town.

Assisi

Assisi is the city of Saint Francis, the Saint protector of all living things. A visit to Assisi brings you along the world famous fresco’s about Francis’ life in the basilica that was built and decorated by many painters from Pisa, Siena and Rome. Today the basilica is completely covered by fresco’s....a fantastic experience in one of Italies most important Gothic Monuments, with fresco's of the most amazing painters like Cimabue, Giotto, Simone Martini and the Lorenzetti-brothers to name just some. Wandering about the streets of Assisi makes you feel like a real pilgrim....a pilgrim of art.

Loreto

The excursions bring you to the wholy city of Loreto, where the small house where Maria was born is kept within the Basilica. The Venetian artist Lorenzo Lotto contemporary of Michelangelo, painted for the monastery of Loreto his last masterpieces, that are exposed in the Papal Palace. Next to that we go to the treasure-chamber of the Basilica, that has a wonderful ceiling with fresco's of Pomarancio.