Pietralunga

Pietralunga, founded by the ancient Umbrian people and destroyed during the barbarian invasions, the hill is rebuilt on today in the seventh century. The town has the appearance of a medieval village, surrounded by walls and gathered around the pentagonal fortress built in the eighth century Lombard. At this period he also traces the construction of the church of Santa Maria, now the parish church of Gubbio, a beautiful Romanesque portal. The church has one nave, simple and unadorned, interrupted only by large ridges that hold the pointed arch vaults. Significant effects of color and harmony in the figures of the Martyrdom of St. Sebastian, a fresco attributed to Raffaellino del Colle. The name comes from PRATALONGA, because of the extensive pastures that surrounded the area. Pietralunga is an important stage of the frequent pilgrimages of Francis of Assisi to Gubbio and Verna, since, through Pietralunga, passed an important medieval road linking the Tyrrhenian to the Adriatic coast. According to tradition, St. Francis is usually stay overnight in a church not far from the city center, where he later formed a hermitage of the friars minor, and where now stands the Sanctuary of the Madonna of Remedies. Center of intense Marian devotion after a few apparitions of the Virgin in early 1500, the sanctuary takes on the architectural characteristics of today in the seventeenth century.

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