This ancient agglomeration is located 471 meters above sea level, surrounded by slightly higher mountains, immersed in a landscape of dense woodlands that make the air fresh and crisp... In this place, intoxicated by the inconstancy of the borders between Marche and Tuscany, disoriented, you can find a point of complete peace: Campo.
As you approach the hamlet your gaze is captured by a particular building, which rises high above the roofs. Compact and yellowish (made of sandstone), it watches the approach of curious and unknown people from its vertical slits...
The small castle, according to local tradition and a certain historiography, was the scene of an important historical event.
In the second half of the 15th century, Campo, right in the Montefeltro area, found itself on the side of the Malatesta family of Rimini who, it should be remembered, still owned many castles in the Feretrano area.
The ancient chronicles say that in the year 1439, the seventeen-year-old Federico di Montefeltro was seriously injured during the assault on a castle called 'Campli' and defined as an 'ignoble castle'. This castle, according to historical tradition, would be none other than today's hamlet of Campo di Belforte. It is certainly suggestive, today, to imagine the village still surrounded by walls with, at its feet, the Urbino troops (and the young Federico) lined up in siege against the occupiers who did not want to bend their insignia to the dukes of Urbino.
Wandering around the small podium that supports the houses, you can still notice the remains of this city wall, heavily damaged and missing in most of its perimeter. Following what remains of the walls you arrive at a church. Its facade is gaunt, gray. At first glance it would seem like a church like many others, without any particular elements of value. However, approaching the wall on the right it is possible to notice some particular stones in the texture of the facing.
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