Etappe 12 - donderdag 19 mei Vertrekpunt: Castefidardo - Ravenna Afstand: 171 km

CASTELFIDARDO
This modern small town, located in the inland of the Conero area, is not only known for having been the battlefield of the decisive fights of the Italian Risorgimento, but also for having been, for more than a century, the largest Italian manufacturing center of accordions. A museum, located in the seventeenth-century rooms of the town hall is dedicated to this musical instrument. The museum pieces tell the story of the accordion and pay homage to local craftsmen and entrepreneurs who contributed to make Castelfidardo known all around the world. On exhibition 350 models of accordions, among which the precious Giuseppe Panini (the father of Italian sticker cards) collection and several collector’s pieces from different countries. Moreover, a typical craft workshop of last century has been organized within the museum. Walls host pictures from 1890 to 1970, result of an attentive documental research, together with works of the caliber of Marc Chagall, Tonino Guerra, Silvia Bugari, Rodolfo Gasparri and with accurate pictorial reproductions of Giovanni Boldini, Fernand Léger, Gino Severini. Among curiosities, a letter from Federico Fellini, the first disc recorded with the accordion by Pietro Deiro, the full score of "Adios Nonino" by the Argentine accordionist Astor Piazzolla.

FROM CASTELFIDARDO TO RAVENNA

Ancona
The Museo Tattile Statale Omero (tactile museum) is the sole travelling collection in the world entirely dedicated to sight-impaired persons, giving the possibility to approach art through the sense of touch. The Museum has been established by the Municipality of Ancona in 1993, and hosts the plaster casts of the most famous sculptures of all time, from models belonging to the Egyptian culture to the greatest masterpieces of Greek art, from Etruscan and Roman works to Medieval, Renaissance and Gothic ones, all reproduced in scale or in their real size. All to be touched by hand along an interesting itinerary.

Pesaro
There are several cultural places dedicated to the most famous son of Pesaro, Gioacchino Rossini. Besides the Theatre and the Conservatoire, sightseers can visit Casa Rossini, where the famous composer was born. The house has been listed as national monument in 1904 and since then it hosts the Museum, divided in two main sections. The first one is entirely dedicated to Rossini interpreters while the second one exhibits the objects which belonged to Rossini, and the prints portraying the musician, most of all coming from donation of the famous French collector Alphonse Hubert Martel.

Cesenatico
Its Marine Museum is divided into two sections: the Ground Section proposes a picturesque journey through time, to discover the traditional marine of the Upper and Middle Adriatic Sea. The Floating Section exhibits ten traditional boats from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries with their colored lugsails exhibiting the symbols of the fishers’ families. In Marco Pantani’s hometown sightseers can also visit, in the neighborhood of the Railway Station, the Spazio Pantani which traces the carreer of the famous champion of Romagna through a sequence of pictures, relics and audiovisual material.