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Frontino is located at the top of a rocky spur to 519 meters on the level of the sea, from where this town dominates the valley of the Mutino torrent. The inhabited center still conserves its medieval structure that are surrounded by a very suggestive landscape made up of nature, small villages and mills that arise in the green circunstantes meadows.
In order to arrive at Frontino in airplane, the nearest airports are: the Aeroporto Raffaello Sanzio de Falconara (Ancona), the Aeroporto Civile Miramare de Rimini and the Aeroporto Marconi of Bologna.
However, if it is traveled in car: from the north of the country it is necessary to follow the A14 freeway to the exit of Rimini Nord. From he is continued towards Verrucchio and San Leo here. From San Leo it is arrived at Carpegna and from the indications of Frontino are followed here.
From the South, the A14 freeway is crossed to Pesaro-Urbino and it is continued towards Macerata, Feltria, Mercatale, Lunano and Carpegna where to encuentrar the indications of Frontino.
The nearer stations of train are the one of Rimini, the one of Pesaro, the one of Riccione and the one of Cattolica. From these stations the public transport can be used to arrive to Frontino. In Frontino the beautiful Church of San Pìetro and Paolo in whose interior can be visited an appraised fabric is conserved, a picture of “the Virgin with the Boy and the saints” of Federico Barocci, in addition to a gilded wood tabernacle pertaining to the 1600.
A Museum of Art that contains works donated by the artists Franco Assetto, enthusiastic of this zone also exists. This artist also has projected a monumental source called “Water Sculpture” that is in the public park of this locality.
Naturally you cannot be lost the Castle and the characteristic passages of Malatesta Palace that, during the periods of siege, served to arrive from the castle at the mill where provision became of flour. You can also visit the water mill of medieval time, that still works after to be rehabilitated and which it is in the highway that unites Carpegna and Lunano. Near this highway, a little above the submerged mill and in a forest of secular oaks, is the hermitage of San Girolamo of century XIV, dedicated to Santa Maria delle Grazie.
Finally, always in the neighborhood of Frontino, is the Convent of Montefiorentino that was constructed in several phases between years 1200 and 1500. Inside this convent, in the chapel of Counts Oliva, is an altarpiece painted by Giovanni Santi (father of Rafael Sanzio).


 

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