Perched on an imposing chalky ancient massif, Peglio is a small village of medieval origins.
Peglio is mainly characterized by the spectacular 360° panoramas that can be admired from the top of the hill on which the village stands.
The town is in fact located, with its 534 meters of altitude, in a dominant position over the underlying Metauro valley, like a natural balcony overlooking the succession of green hills, as far as the imposing silhouettes of the main mountains of the Pesaro Apennine chain, Monte Catria, Monte Petrano and Monte Nerone.
No less valuable is the view that can be enjoyed by turning towards the north-west, where one can admire, also immersed in an irregular and wavy hilly landscape, the reliefs of Carpegna, Sasso Simone and Simoncello, Montecopiolo and the towers of the Republic of San Marino.
Main Events
Panceros Day
Tastings of typical local products based on pork and local wines, to pass on the peasant tradition, in which the pig guaranteed food for the whole year and represented opulence and survival.
February
Orti Giulivi e Fiori Ammiccanti
Flower and plant market exhibition, local artistic handicraft market, events related to nature tourism and eco-sustainability, walks, concerts in the historic centre of Peglio.
May
Vivaio Peglio
Conferences, workshops, lectio magistralis by experts in the sector and other events focused on botany, eco-systems, self-sustainability of the naturalistic territory.
September
Contacts
Comune di Peglio
Piazza Petrangolini, 6
0722310100
comune.peglio@provincia.ps.it
https://comune.peglio.pu.it/home
Peglio in the Alta Val Metauro
To learn more about Peglio
The history of Peglio has its roots in ancient times, in fact the castle is of Lombard origin, and it was precisely near this location that the army of King Liutprando was defeated by the Roman-Byzantine army at the “Vico di Peglio”, as Paul the Deacon wrote in 728 AD.
The orographic position determines a strategic condition for the control of the upper Metauro valley, so much so that it became one of the castles of greatest strategic importance of the ancient “Pentapoli Montana” formed by the five internal cities (Montefeltro, Urbino, Fossombrone, Cagli and Luceoli).
It was only in 1288 by order of Pope Nicholas IV that Peglio was subjected to the administration of Massa Trabaria and, from 1291, despite being far from the border, the Castle of Peglio and the tower were assigned to the rector of Massa and his officials to continue to exercise their mandate.
Although it continued to be part of the lands of the Church in the Urbino committee and not in Massa Trabaria, Peglio from 1334 was under the dominion of the Brancaleoni of Casteldurante, today’s Urbania, until Cardinal Albornoz began a restructuring of the Papal State that fought the Brancaleoni who in 1366 lost the Castle of Peglio which subsequently, together with Casteldurante, was included in the new borders of the Province of Massa Trabaria.
The origins
In 1390 Pope Boniface IX gave Peglio into the possession of Antonio, Count of Montefeltro, with whom the era of the government of the ducal Vicars began. Following the death of Duke Francesco Maria II della Rovere in 1631, the Duchy of Urbino passed entirely to the Holy See, as did Peglio which was part of it and therefore ended up depending on the Apostolic Legate of Urbino. In 1801 the municipality, which at the time also included Lunano, had 739 inhabitants of which 505 were from Peglio.
With the formation of the Kingdom of Italy by Napoleon Bonaparte, the Marche entered it with the Edict of Saint-Claude in 1808 and was organized into Departments.
Peglio was included in that of the Metauro, included in District IV of Urbino and in the Canton of Urbania; in this period it had 848 inhabitants, including those of Lunano.
With the fall of the Napoleonic Kingdom in 1814, the municipality returned to the Papal States until the advent of the Unification of Italy in 1860, when it was recognized as a municipality; then in 1928, during the fascist period, it became part of Urbania, which is what had already been attempted at the beginning of the nineteenth century.
Since 1947 Peglio has regained its autonomy by returning to being a municipality.
