One of the most beautiful villages in Italy with its impregnable prison... #tuttitaly
The panorama that can be enjoyed from San Leo is one of the most beautiful and characteristic of the Emilia Romagna region; the view sweeps over the surrounding mountains and along the Marecchia valley to the sea. We are 32 km from Rimini, in the hinterland of Emilia
Romagna, behind the Republic of San Marino, and almost on the border between the Emilia Romagna and Marche regions, a territory formerly called Montefeltro.
The splendid village of San Leo is 583 meters above sea level, in the Val Marecchia (SS 258), on a vast rocky boulder all around impassable; it is accessed only by the only road cut into the rock.
On the highest point of the spur rises the impregnable Fort, which was transformed into a prison during the
papal dominion and the Count of Cagliostro (magician or charlatan who had been tried for the famous "necklace affair," accused of having made a necklace disappear from the French monarchy) and Felice Orsini (an Italian writer and revolutionary, known for causing a massacre in an attempt to assassinate the French emperor Napoleon III).
Today the imposing fortress is one of the most famous examples of military art and houses in its rooms an essential collection of ancient and modern weapons, with several rooms furnished with instruments of torture used
on poor prisoners who, unfortunately, were imprisoned in these stone tombs and without doors.
The typical digestive of the village is based on licorice and could only be called Cagliostro balsam. Other local specialties are walnut leaf cheese and the famous San Leo honey.
The magnificent town is included in the list of the most beautiful villages in Italy and is a destination that cannot be missing from your discoveries.
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