Feeling the water and clay in your hands. Forging the shape of a vase from scratch. Looking at the shapes of the ovens and objects that enchanted D’Annunzio. Ceramics can make for a rich and full holiday in Montefeltro. Casteldurante in 1636 became Urbania; in the seventeenth and eighteenth century skilled modellers and painters continued the glorious tradition, renewing the art with «the elegance of the shapes and the gentleness of the dough».
The Sown History of the Duchy
Montefeltro and the duchy of Urbino represented the ancient domains of Federico da Montefeltro, a warrior lord with the dream / obsession of the “ideal city”. His court was one of the driving forces of the Renaissance, like Rome, Venice, Florence. Each ducal palace (that of Urbino, that of Urbania), each hunting lodge respects the aesthetic canons of the Renaissance and not by chance recalls the proportions and ideal symmetry that at the end of the fifteenth century Leon Battista Alberti codified and implemented in the nearby structure of the Rimini Cathedral (built for the enemies of the Montefeltro, the Malatesta). Every architecture hides optical deceptions, secret passages, ancestral telephones hidden in the spiral coils of the stairs.