Urbino is located 30 kilometers inland West from Pesaro on the top of a hillside 485 meters above sea level, with a population of 15,566 inhabitants. The entire walled city is one large monumental attraction. The city of Urbino is one of the most important historic cities in Italy, in fact, the most important within the Marche region. The city center was recently included in the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites.

It was from this beautiful city that Duke Federico Da Montefeltro ruled between 1444 and 1482. During the second half of the fifteenth century Federico Montefeltro housed the greatest painters, poets and scholars in his beautiful Renaissance palace, a palace that still stands today in an incredible state of preservation. The courtyard of the palace is a masterpiece of proportion and light, each space designed with magnificent detail and care. One of the grand rooms of the palace is the "Galleria Nationale delle Marche" (National Marche Gallery), housing a remarkable collection of paintings including one of the world’s greatest and enigmatic painting, Piero della Francesca’s Flagellation of Crist.

Few traces of the original Roman settlement, Urbinum Metaurense (the original Roman Name of the city) may be evidenced in the archeological museum at the ground floor of the Ducal’s Palace.