Hand-dug tunnels by the ancient Romans and the bubbling water of Candigliano that makes natural canyons: the third protected area in the province of Pesaro and, with its 3,600 hectares of woods, pastures and uncontaminated peaks, it is the greenest heart of the Montefeltro.
The Metauro: Guado and Carbonai
Montefeltro is really a dip in history and in the harmony that exists between history and nature. And again it is a combination that creates color: the intense blue of the ford and the poetic black of the charcoal burners. The ford (in Italian guado or guato or gualdo or vado) (Isatis tinctoria L.) until the seventeenth century was intensively cultivated, ground, refined and traded to color fabrics or paper. The indigo or Celtic blue color (also used to dye jeans) comes from this bushy shrub also widespread in the Marche. The processing of the ford (evidence of old special stone millstones are frequent especially in the area of the upper Metauro and Foglia valleys, in Cagli, Piobbico and Apecchio) reached a very high level of entrepreneurship so that from Sant’Angelo in Vado (or in Guado?).