Urbino e Rimini

Yesterday we took a group day-trip to the hill-town of Urbino and then to the bigger coastal town, Rimini. Urbino was by far my fav...it's gorgeous and intact from when it was built hundreds of years ago. The mountains all around it are incredible and the Palace of Duke Ferdinand was really cool too. It's a really really small town, but its the birthplace of Raffaelo and the Duke was pretty important during his time. We got a tour of a couple places and the palaces, then we went straight to lunch. We had pasta with tomatoes, gnocchi with ragu (meat sauce), pork, salad, coffee, dessert, and of course lots of wine and bread. My end of the table managed to finish off 4 bottles (between 6 of us...) and after lunch we spent at least 20 minutes using the bathroom. There are pics on facebook!
Rimini was cool too, but we weren't there for very long and it was a lot more modern. We saw an arch built by the Romans, a Roman house (with bones in it!), and the courtyard of the castle. There was an art-exhibit going on inside the castle, but I was more interested in the Roman stuff, so we didn't go inside the castle. We DID however go inside the Duomo in Rimini, which was beautiful of course. I think ours here in Ferrara is better though :) I think next weekend some of us are going to day-trip to Verona...woohoo!