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Urbino is an interesting city with wonderfull buildings and art collections to explore. Built in light terra cotta stone it looks fabulous in the evening sun and is small enought to get around easily. Excellent restaurants and bars and not overcroded by tourists - in September at any rate - we would highly recommend it.

The city is not easy to figure out how to get into or park a car. But if you're only staying for the day, park at any entrance near the walled city and just walk around town. Amazing. We have traveled in Italy many times (14+) and Urbino is one of the most fascinating ancient hill towns we have seen - and the largest. The whole Marche region is great because there are relatively few tourists and the countryside is breathtakingly beautiful.

Urbino is a city-museum with a University ie not a real town but lovely to visit. The Ducal Palace is stupendous but the organisation was appalling and the usher very rude. There were school trips booked but they refused to let our small group with guide go in before a large and noisy group of young schoolchildren and were very rude to our guide. We were told to queue and had already stood for 30 minutes - we are both over 70 and were already tired. We gave up the visit and returned in the afternoon when there were very few people. The restaurants were not always good - our favourite was the Leone - great food, great service from the owners and honest prices.

It's an interesting small city, easily explored in a full day, though doubtless there are things to do that would take longer. The access is very steep, possibly one of the steepest hilltop towns we've visited, and we've been to many.

Urbino is rightly renowned as a centre of Renaissance culture and is a well preserved and restored hilltop gem. The Ducal palace is a fascinating visit, as is Raphael´s birthplace and a variety of churches. We really enjoyed walking the beautiful streets and exploring - it’s a small city, so this is easy to do, however it is very hilly, so is challenging for anyone with mobility issues.

For seniors you need to take advantage of f.i. the elevator from the parking at Mercatale (cheap) for €1. The museum at the museum Ducale is very religious and got bitboring to me until I noticed how extraordinary crafted doors, ceilings and windows are. Great experience.