Ducal palace
Piazza Duca Federico, 13, Urbino, Italy
Description:
The Ducal Palace in Urbino is undoubtedly a grandiose structure. A powerful and majestic palace grew out of a small castle on a rock. In the middle of the 15th century, Duke Federico da Montefeltro hired the best architects to create a palace - amazing in beauty. Architects, in particular Francesco di Giorgio Martini, coped with the task - the palace is called "the ideal residence for an enlightened monarch" and it is included in the UNESCO World Heritage List.
Actually, the palace is more like a city in the city, in its stone embraces are enclosed squares, churches, residential buildings and outbuildings. Both architecture and interior decoration amaze with logic and luxury. Nowadays, in the palace chambers there is a collection of Italian Renaissance painting. But even without this, the palace will capture the attention and heart for a long time. After all, some rooms in the artistic sense are even more interesting than the paintings that adorn the walls.