Sant'Agata Feltria

Sant'Agata Feltria sits at 607 meters in the upper Valmarecchia, in the historic Montefeltro region eighty-five kilometers north of Perugia and twenty inland from the Adriatic. The Rocca Fregoso rises directly behind the centro on the Sasso del Lupo, a sandstone outcrop with overhanging walls on three quarters of its perimeter and a thirty-meter drop from summit to base. The fortress is tenth-century in origin; Francesco di Giorgio Martini rebuilt it in 1474 for the Fregoso family of Genoa, who gave it their name and held it until the seventeenth century.

The town belonged in turn to the Malatesta of Rimini, the Montefeltro of Urbino, and the Fregoso. Inside the borgo, the Teatro Angelo Mariani, opened in 1605, is one of the oldest still-active theaters in Italy. Every Sunday in October the centro hosts the Fiera Nazionale del Tartufo Bianco Pregiato, running since 1985, the reason the town carries the Città del Tartufo designation.