Pesaro. Tour. Rossini. Official guide to Pesaro

Pesaro, a city with a rich history, is located in central Italy, the Marche region, 40 km south of Rimini.
It is hard to imagine that in this region of Italy, a place of summer vacation almost exclusively for the Italians themselves, concentrated 76 historical theaters!

The ancient Roman city of Pisaurum was founded in 184 AD on the territory of the ancient, mysterious people of the Picena. After the fall of ancient Rome, the city was completely destroyed by the Goths in 539 and restored by Byzantium, becoming part of the sea Pentapolis of the Ravenna Exarchate.

In the Middle Ages, the city flourishes, and its surroundings are overgrown with magnificent castles. The great and mighty Malatesta invite to the court of famous masters and build three magnificent Gothic churches. In the era of the rulers of Sforza in the center of the city there is a Renaissance Ducal Palace, the Imperial Villa and the fortress of Costanza, the construction of which was handed by the great Renaissance architect Luciano Laurana.

During the reign of Della Rovere, Pesaro became the capital of the Duchy of Urbino and the golden age of its glorious history began: the era of Guidobaldo della Rovere's friendship with the great artist Titian, the patronage of Torquato Tasso, the heyday of Pesar majolica.

Pesaro is one of the brightest witnesses of centuries-old theatrical life. Here was born the outstanding Italian composer Gioacchino Rossini - the personification of vitality in music, the author of brilliant aphorisms and endless gourmet in life.

Every year in August, Pesaro hosts the Rossini International Opera Festival, an event of the same magnitude as the Salzburg and Bayreuth Festivals.

A sightseeing tour of the historic center of Pesaro includes the following route:

The Rossini Theatre in Lazzarini Square, the Rossini Conservatory, the main square of the city "Piazza del Popolo" with a fountain of the 17th century, a masterpiece of the Renaissance Duke's Palace, Santa Maria delle Grazie with a magnificent Gothic portal, a visit to the Rossini House-Museum, a visit to the Palazzo Tosca-Mosca with a visit to the Pinacoteca (D. Bellini's masterpiece "The Coroning of the Virgin Mary") and the Ceramics Museum (the famous Majolica Castella Durantelle with a magnificent view of the Emperor's in the 6thiodorodorodier, a visit to the Palaziodiodiodiodiodiodiodiodiodiodiodiodiodiodiodiodiodiodiodiodiodiodiodiodiodiodiodiodiodiodiodiodiodiodiodiodiodiodiodiod