Sansepolcro

Sansepolcro is the city of Peter of the Francesca, of the Albertis, of the Cantagallina, of the Schiaminossi, of the Cungi and of the Markets, of Raffaellino of the Hill, of Luca Pacioli, illustrious mathematician, but it is also the city of the Palio of the Crossbow and the Games of Flag testimonies of an ancient military appointment.

The city, rich and flourishing for its productive activities of coloring subjects and cloths, beautiful for the urban order, for the buildings and for the precious artistic presences, interesting from the military point of view for its strategic position, it was to the center of affairs manifested him in more occasions, beginning from the century XII, for work of the abbots camaldolesi, of the bishops of City of Castle and Arezzo of the cities of Rimini, Arezzo and Perugia, of the states of Florence and the Pope.


Perhaps also for these motives the city has one peculiarity of his, that does it appear today still fair of its historical tradition and a comfort conquered through the hard job of generations that they have competed to the prestige of the Buitoni and other firms of national importance.

The artistic patrimony, really notable, it is mainly picked in the Civic Museum, in which the polittico of the can be admired "Madonna of the Mercy" and her "Resurrezione" of Peter of the Francesca, the top born artist really in this city to the beginnings of the XV century.

I testi sono stati tratti da: "Quattro itinerari in Valtiberina" - COMUNITÀ MONTANA VALTIBERINA TOSCANA
"Valtiberina" - AZIENDA DI PROMOZIONE TURISTICA DI AREZZO