One of its jewels is the imposing Palzzo Ducale built by Federico da Montefelco and his wife Battista Forza. Its construction began in 1465 and was not finished when Battista died at the age of 26 in 1472.
Another point of interest is the native house of the painter Rafael (born in 1483). This amazing artist has lost his mother at birth and his father when he was 11.
Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino better known simply as Raphael, was an Italian painter and an architect of the High Renaissance,celebrated for the perfection and grace of his paintings and drawings. Together with Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, he forms the traditional trinity of great masters of that period. No wonder a statue was erected in its memory on a piazza de Urbino. It is an honour for a town to have one of the greatest artist of the Renaissance born within its walls.
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