Historical Train Ferrovia Subappennina Italica – A UNIQUE JOURNEY BETWEEN MEDIEVAL VILLAGES AND BREATHTAKING LANDSCAPES

Arrive in Fabriano, visit of the Paper and Watermark Museum where are illustrated the historical phases of handmade paper. Free lunch. Continue with a guided tour of the medieval historic center with the Church of San Filippo, the loggia of San Francesco, the Oratory of Charity in which are preserved frescoes by Filippo Bellini depicting the seven works of Mercy, the Crypt of San Romualdo, the Church of S. Onofrio or Scala Santa, the Gentile Theatre, the main fountain called “Sturinalto”, the Palazzo del Podestà, the oldest Gothic civil building of Marche and the Cathedral dedicated to San Venanzio. Dinner in restaurant with characteristic menu.
Accommodation in hotel for overnight.

Breakfast at the hotel, visit of the Museum of the Steamer, set up in the first station of
Fabriano (1878) that will lead us on a journey through the life of the Italian railways. At the end, departure with the historical train of the Italian Subappennina Railway, that from Fabriano arrives in Pergola. The Italica Subappennina Railway was born as an alternative ridge to the Adriatic coast line, it was supposed to start from Sant’Arcangelo di Romagna to cross the Valmarecchia, until connecting Urbino to Fermignano and Pergola, ending on the Rome-Ancona near Fabriano.
The only part entered in service, however, was the Urbino – Fabriano. A unique journey aboard a historic train from Fabriano to Pergola, which crosses the Marche Apennines between medieval villages and cities of art, in a breathtaking natural landscape. The train ride, in addition to lunch in a restaurant, includes a visit to the Gilded Bronzes Museum of Cartoceto, the only group of gilded bronzes in the world that has come from the Roman age to our days. The complex represents a probable family group, originally composed of two pairs of cloaked and veiled female figures, and two knights in military dress of high rank, with richly decorated horses. Not to forget also the
to the Mines of Zolfo of Cabernardi, one of the main mining centers of the Marche, a suggestive itinerary through which the visitor can know a unique reality and appreciate a distant history, but indissolubly linked to the territory of the Marche. End of services.