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Urbino hotels, Italy

The original capital of the Duchy of Montefeltro (35 km from Pesaro) extends across the top of two hills. Its houses and churches are built down each hill as far Porta Lavagine on the north-east slope and Porta Valbona to the south-west. This is one of the major art towns in the world, both because of its history and for the many buildings and works of art which are housed here. Its origins are extremely old but documentation of its history begins only in the 3rd Century BC, when Urvinum Mataurense received the title of Roman municipality (remains of its wall and theatre still survive)