It is a border region, located between the
Marches, Tuscany and Romagna, historically aspired to by the Medici, contested between the Malatesti and the Montefeltro, and finally annexed to the dominion of
Urbino by the latter, the
Counts of Montefeltro by imperial appointment. As testimony of this past there remain strongholds and castles, parish churches ad convents, with the imperious fortress of
San Leo towering above. Farmhouses dotted on the peaks of the hills testify to the century - old agricultural tradition, either in métayage or small farmholdings, which ensured attention and devotion to the land. When the strong winter bora and the lighter summer bora wind sweep the sky clean, and
Montefeltro glistens with its pure, dry air, the hills can be seen rolling down from the
Sassi and
Carpegna down to the green Adriatic sea.