Pesaro Private Tour: town of ceramics & Gioachino Rossini｜Italy

The guided tour of Pesaro begins by admiring from the outside the imposing Costanza fortress, built in the 1400s by Costanzo Sforza from which it takes its name, in a typically military style with the aim of protecting the town from enemy attacks; over time the fortress was also used as a prison and today various events and shows take place inside. From here we continue our visit in the heart of the historic center arriving in its main square, Piazza del Popolo, the living room of Pesaro with elegant buildings and the magnificent view of the Renaissance Palazzo Ducale, in the past the residence of the various Lords who ruled the town.

The fine arcades enrich the square that houses the beautiful sixteenth-century fountain known as the Pupil of Pesaro with sea horses, tritons, dolphins and masks. A few steps away we continue the tour through the historic places associated with the famous musician and composer Gioachino Rossini and see the building where he was born, now a multimedia museum. From here we proceed with the visit of the Cathedral dedicated to Santa Maria Assunta of medieval origin and subsequently adapted to the neoclassical style of the nineteenth century; inside we can admire the extraordinary early Christian mosaics discovered under the nineteenth-century flooring of the church and other mosaics and ceramics in different points, together with the white stone portal with two large lions on the sides.

We will walk along the seafront of Pesaro and we will see the fountain with the Great Sphere in the center by the sculptor Arnaldo Pomodoro, symbol of the town and a few steps from the sea that seems almost suspended on the water: an optical effect that wants to represent the union between man and nature with a terrestrial globe with cracks from which gears and geometric figures emerge.

The guided tour ends a few steps from the sphere by discovering the Villino Ruggeri externally, one of the most beautiful examples of Art Nouveau architecture in Italy, built in the early twentieth century.