Italian resort got a major museum

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Сообщение от Chernomashentsev Vladimir

a terrible picture appears! Raphael in Urbino, I have not met.

Urbino - a unique, fully preserved since the Renaissance city - not for nothing is taken under the protection of UNESCO. In his appearance enough that recalls today. There is a feeling that we actually crossed the century and found themselves in the 15 th century, when Urbino briefly became one of the most brilliant artistic centers of the Italian Renaissance. Italy was at that time is fragmented into many city-states.
  With Raphael's house (Casa Raffaello) best place to start a tour of Urbino. In the area of Borgo Mercatale, next to the bus station, take in the information center (Infopoint) map of the city. In the old city we go through the gate Porta Valbona and move up the wide Via Mazzini to the busy square Piazza della Repubblica.

Here, turn left and walk along the area of San Francesco in Via Raffaello. It is not easy to go to Urbino, quick step - because there is so beautiful! But if we want to get into the house of Raphael, in a hurry: from 13 to 15 hours in the museum break.
 
Raphael House with a plaque.
  In this house, Rafael was born on April 6, 1483, here he lived in his childhood. Father, the Duke of Urbino court painter, Giovanni Santi, was his first teacher.

The museum contains many items of genuine 15 th century, are paintings by Giovanni Santi, who was a good teacher and a caring father, but, as we can see, a mediocre artist. Perhaps the most interesting is that you can see in this vast museum - Youth work
Raphael, the first of his "Madonna". After touring the museum will go up Via Raffaello to the monument to Raphael (1897) Some pompous monument wins thanks to its location: on three sides by splendid views of the mountains. However, in regard to the beautiful views, Urbino is inexhaustible. And the most spectacular of which we enjoy, if we go from the monument to Rafael along the fortress wall on the north-west, parallel to Viale Buozzi. (c)