Culture and traditions of the Alto Metauro, a land in the Marche at the boundaries with Tuscany and Umbria

Museums and Collections	Antiquarium	Sant'Angelo	has many remains of Roman time coming from the excavations of the Tiphernum Metaurense.
	Public library	Urbania	founded by Francesco Maria II Della Rovere was helped by a rich donation of 35,000 volumes; very important is the ancient bottom rich of incunabulums and cinquecentine.
	San Francesco Church	Mercatello	is a Romanic church dated XIII cent.and is probably the first Francescan church built outside Assisi. Inside, a picture gallery has been organized, and it contains paintings and frescos from XIII to XVII cent.
	old trades exposition	Sant'Angelo	is a permanent review on the artisan activities, it collects objects and working tools reproducing the work places.
	Museum of Collegiata	Mercatello	in the Collegiata church still has parts of the old building from Xcent. inside the madonna delle grazie painting is kept together with many other art works. very interesting is the museum containing vestments dated of XV cent.
	Civic museum	Urbania	situated in the Palazzo Ducale (XV-XVI cen.)is rich of drawings by Italian, German, French artists, a very remarkable collection. Marvellous are the two globes by G. Mercatone (XVI cent); it has many majolic and ceramics collections; the museum is even centre of important cultural activities.
	countryside culture museum	Urbania	situated in the Palazzo Ducale canteens, collects old tools of the ancient agricultural work, in particular those referred to the wine and wheat.
	Mummies museum	Urbania	situated in the Dead Church, collects a series of corpses dated XVI cent. which have undergone a mummification process
	Diocese museum	Urbania	recently instituted, is a museum of library and archives. The Durantine ceramics collection is very important,too.
	Santa Veronica Sanctuary	Mercatello	situated in the birth house of the Saint, today is monastery of the Cappuccine nuns.

Associations	Accademia del Razagnol	Mercatello	"is a free association for those who want to study and deepen the language history.
Associations	Green Hall	Borgo Pace	is a laboratory house for the spread of the knowledge of environmental features, particularly referred to the fluvial environment in the Appennines.
	Green Hall	Mercatello	didactic aim is to illustrate with a series of examples, how the environment can be respected.
	Musical band	Mercatello	is almost a two century old institution,in fact the first documents we have about it are dated 1816, since then it has always worked in concerts and ceremonies to give a minimum of musical knowledge to the young people.
	C.E.A.	Lamoli (Borgo Pace)	environment education centre run by Cooperativa forestale organizes excursions in Alpe Della Luna territory for schools.
	C.E.A.M.	Mercatello	European conservatory for arts and crafts has worked in Mercatello since 1992, organizing in its site of Cagnoni, ceramic courses, painting on glass, glass fusion graphics etc.
	Truffle cultivation centre	Sant'Angelo	is a centre of research and application of the techniques in truffles cultivation; connected to the centre there is a nursery that produces every year thousands of plants.
	Piccolpasso centre	Urbania	is a social centre of ceramic laboratory for young talents.
	Holyday Ceramic Courses	Urbania	are open to Italian and foreign people and they are located in the urbanesi shops.
	Nature in Movement	Lamoli (Borgo Pace)	is an environment education centre.
	Award is a review Metauro	Urbania	of current poets; the prize ceremony is held in a different town every year.

Pubblications	visual art and creative thinking	Sant'Angelo	by Fausto Presutti, was the result of the five days "convegno laboratorio" in image and creativity, held in Sant'Angelo in Vado in July '95.
	Houses in Alta Valle del Metauro	Mercatello	with a vibrating introduction by Paolo Volponi presents a collection of 48 drawings of rural houses by the architect Giovanni Gandolfi.
	Castrum lamularum	Borgo Pace	is the catalogue dedicated to the Lamoli Castle, to its history, by Carlo Giacomini and Corrado Leonardi.
	With the thread,	Borgo Pace, Mercatello	is a catalogue of the three exibitions held by C. E. A. M. in 1997 in the Metauro valley. "Il filo e l'arte contemporanea ,Maria Lai" held in Fermignano, "Il filo nella storia e nelle tecniche, i tessuti storici" held in Mercatello and "Il filo e la tecnica, le tecniche tintorie".
	Drawings fonts and search for the Renaissance majolic of Casteldurante	Urbania	The volume by Giancarlo Bojani and John T. Spike
	Federico Zuccari-the ideas the scripts	Sant'Angelo	text by Bonita Cleri, after the meeting held on Federico Zuccari; the work includes important news of the Valdese artist
	The last dreams of Fellini	Borgo Pace	Si tratta del catalogo della mostra "is a catalogue of the exhibition "the last dreams of Fellini" promoted by the Federico Fellini association. Inaugurated in Borgo Pace in September 1997, the exhibition showed photographs and drawings by the "maestro riminese".
	The coal workers, a black and white job	Borgo Pace	is a photographs collection in black and white by Pier Paolo Zani; he presents through artistic photos the faces, the manners, the rhythms of an ancient job still practised in the Altometauro
	Yesterday in Mercatello, 100 years in photographs-Mercatello-it	Mercatello	is a collection of pictures through which life in Mercatello is reproduced since the unification of Italy; the pictures are accompanied by a text by Paolo Cincilla who describes some aspects of its history.
	The Metola Castle	Mercatello	the volume by Corrado Leonardi is a study on the castle and its owners, it contains a chapter on the blessed Margherita cult.
	Sant'Angelo,The Tiferno Metaurense and the Massa Trabaria province	Sant'Angelo	it is the reprint of the work published between 1890 and 1912 by the Vadese historian Vincenzo Lanciarini. The reprint is available at Sant'Angelo in Vado municipality.
	Lainting in the alta valle del Metauro in XIV-XVI cen.	Borgo Pace, Mercatello	the study presents even minor artists and shows the work in the little shops emphasising the cultural life in that period.
	painting between Romagna and Marche in the first half of'300	Mercatello	The minutes of the meeting, held in Mercatello in 1987, are assembled in this monographic number of the paper "Notizie da palazzo Albani". Università di Urbino.
	the war tragedy of Borgo Pacefont>	Borgo Pace	when the town was destroyed by the Germans in 1944; this tragedy is recalled by Corrado Leonardi in a volume based on three witnesses statements, published in 1994 is available in Borgo Pace.
	Monteberticchio villa	Urbania	The study of Sabine Eiche is about one of the Francesco Maria II Della Rovere houses, rebuilt through several documents. the volume includes some memories of Francesco Maria II Della Rovere himself.
	The royal school "Zuccari" for art applied to industry in Sant'Angelo in Vado.	Sant'Angelo	History and itinerary of the schools in the Metauro valley" by Bonita Cleri
	Le ventquattr'hore dell'humana felicità	Urbania	It is the reprint of the volume containing 28 carvings by Giuseppe Maria Mitelli published in 1675 in Bologna.
	To Taddeo e Federico Zuccari in the Marche	Sant'Angelo	It is the catalogue of the exhibition dedicated to the two Valdesi artists in autumn 1993
	Where the truffle is, in its ambient and on the table	Sant'Angelo	the truffle in several recipes in the 16 towns having part in the association "città del tartufo" in which Sant'Angelo is included, published in 1994.
Bach	Vincenzo Lanciarini-the man the work the time	Sant'Angelo	published after the meeting dedicated to Lanciarini in 1988, the book contains notices about his work, as the most important historian of the Massa Trabaria.