Rome in the Footsteps of an XVIIIth Century Traveller

In my pilgrimage from Rome to Loretto I again crossed the Apennine: from the coast of the Adriatic I traversed a fruitful and populous country, which could alone disprove the paradox of Montesquieu, that modern Italy is a desert.
Edward Gibbon - Autobiography - To Naples and Back - 1796

Even on the most wearily reluctant tourist Urbino imposes itself; there is no escaping it; it must be seen.
Aldous Huxley - Along the Road. Notes and Essays of a Tourist - 1925

1864 clickable map of the Marches

Ancona         Ascoli         Cagli         Camerino         Cesena         Cingoli         Civitanova         Fano         Fermo         Fossombrone         Gradara         Jesi         Loreto         Macerata         Macerata Feltria         Matelica         Osimo         Pesaro         Recanati         Rimini         Ripatransone         San Leo         Sassocorvaro         Sanseverino         Senigallia         Tolentino         Treia         Urbania         Urbino         Urbisaglia        

The image used as background for this page shows a statue by Giorgio Orsini (aka Giorgio da Sebenico) portraying a knight, the symbol of Ancona, at Loggia dei Mercanti.