Urbania

Urbania is a beautiful small town in Le Marche. It is mid spring and everything is in bloom and the landscape is incredibly verdant. They grow a lot of wheat so there are large areas of deep green wheat, lots of red poppies and occasional great fields of yellow that is either mustard or rape. (Not sure I know what either looks like for sure.)The area is beautiful rolling hills with great wildflowers everywhere so walking or driving around is one terrific view after another.





This was the "guest house" where we stayed just outside Urbania. It's right next door to the Ducal hunting palace of Duke Durante from the 16th century which is to the right of the guest house and hidden from view. It was a great place to stay with the area in the back of the house facing a park that was also part of the hunting palace grounds. The quiet was a truly welcome relief after our last 2 nites in Sicily and the park was a great place for a walk.

This was the duke's palazzo in the town of Urbania, built in the 1400's. The town is quaint, old and small enough that we walked pretty much every inch of it. Had a couple of good meals in a tiny family owned trattoria which was conveniently placed very close to a gelateria so that my dessert was easily accessible.