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Casteldimezzo Historic Village

Casteldimezzo Historic Village

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Casteldimezzo Historic Village

Name: Casteldimezzo Historic Village
Rating: 2

Recommended by 87 hikers

This Highlight is in a protected area

Please check local regulations for: Parco Regionale del Monte San Bartolo

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Location: Pesaro, Pesaro e Urbino, Marche, Italy

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1. Crossing the Parco Regionale del Monte San Bartolo

19.5km

05:36

470m

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2. From Fiorenzuola di Focara to the "Roof of the World" through the Village of Casteldimezzo

5.62km

01:36

120m

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3. Fiorenzuola di Focara – Casteldimezzo Historic Village loop from Gradara

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470m

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Verucchio Cammina

February 27, 2022

Anciently known as "Castrum Medii", for its "characteristic position between the Castle of Gabicce and that of Fiorenzuola", (also called Galliolo or Gaiola or Garzoleto) the village is located about 200 meters above sea level. and constitutes a natural balcony from which the gaze can extend towards a broad horizon in which the Gradara Castle, the "pens" of San Marino and the Gibbo del Catria stand out.

In Casteldimezzo, part of the city walls is preserved, once interspersed with numerous towers, while the fortress has now disappeared. Particularly interesting is the church dedicated to the Ravenna Saints Apollinare and Cristoforo, which houses a 15th century Crucifix, the work of Jacobello del Fiore, around which an adventurous story is told, commemorated by a plaque from 1652, placed inside the church itself. Of equal importance is the large panel placed above the central altar, representing a Madonna enthroned with Child, Saints Apollinare and Christopher and a musician angel, the work of F. Zaganelli and dating back to around 1510.

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Verucchio Cammina

April 15, 2023

Once called Gaiola, Galliola and Gazoleto, Casteldimezzo assumed its current name in the 14th century, indicating an intermediate position between Gabicce and Fiorenzuola. Thanks to its easily defensible position and the presence of the nearby port of Vallugola, the castle was used as a residence for rustic relief by the Archbishops of Ravenna. Passed to the Malatesta family in 1356, it then became the property of the Sforza and Della Rovere families. Today only a few traces of the ancient medieval walls remain. Inside the Church of Saints Apollinare and Cristoforo, dating back to the year 1000 but rebuilt (the dedication indicates the distant origins of Ravenna), a fifteenth-century Crucifix attributed to the Venetians Antonio Bonvesin and Jacobello del Fiore is kept, found on the seashore inside a large chest wooden. According to tradition, the sculpture was the protagonist of a miraculous event: it was the year 1517 when as many as 7000 foreigners from beyond the mountains, in the pay of Lorenzo di Piero de' Medici, defeated by Francesco Maria I Della Rovere, menacingly approached the walls of Castrum Medi. but the feared and foreseeable looting of the town did not take place thanks to the grace granted by the Crucifix that came from the sea to the terrified population. The news relating to the discovery of the precious artifact is also curious: the inhabitants of Casteldimezzo and those of nearby Fiorenzuola, having sighted a chest lying on the coast at the foot of the promontory and wanting to seize its contents, ended up fighting until the oxen to which it was harnessed the load, tired of the prolonged quarrel, they decided to set off along the road to Casteldimezzo leaving the neighbors with a pinch of nose.

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Dri

June 18, 2024

Bucolic town dominated by the quiet and the company of kittens roaming the streets. You can smell the sea and simplicity.

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Casteldimezzo Historic Village

1. Crossing the Parco Regionale del Monte San Bartolo

2. From Fiorenzuola di Focara to the "Roof of the World" through the Village of Casteldimezzo

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