Urbino View Magazine – 2009
!"#!$%$&%'$()*$+,!-.!/01$#-!2$34-5%0,!6718$4(+$-# City of Discovery A Father’s Gift to Raphael Best Places to Visit, Stay, Eat, & Play Guide to Urbino Treasures Arts, Culture, Nightlife & People Agritourism & Eco-Friendly Shopping !"#$%&'()*+,- Arielle Emmett PHOTO BY Jessica German The gra!ti of Urbino is more than street art. It expresses the longings of the city. !"#$%&'%(")*#%+,-&.,#/)* rbino is a city as old as the Romans, the birthplace of Ra!aello (Ra- American journalists and scholars at the university: “Urbino is the place where phael) and a city of secrets. "e best-kept secret is that Urbino and you can go to $nd yourself -- to eat well, live well, but most of all, to $nd your its environs are practically unknown to most international travelers. happiness.” URoma, Firenze (Florence) and Tuscany, Venezia (Venice) command the lion- "is magazine will help you explore the happiness, and, hopefully, at share of tourist dollars and mind space. Urbino, the Renaissance jewel hid- least some of the secret riches of Urbino and surrounding Le Marche. Urbi- den in the lush hills of Le Marche, in east-central Italy, maintains a happy in- noView is produced cooperatively by the City of Urbino, a host of gracious lo- dependence. It is a city of families and scholars, journalists and policemen, cal sponsors, ieiMedia and San Francisco State University. Founded in 2001 late-night cafes, stone streets that bend and rise in turns. Urbino’s college by Professor Andrew Ciofalo, dubbed “Magni$co” by Italian friends, ieiMedia graduates celebrate their success with crowns of laurel leaves, gold masks and is a private educational corporation that helps organize and train young Amer- fountain dunkings.
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