Be a Reporter in Italy Next Summer!
Study international reporting and create next year's edition of the Urbino Project website and Urbino Now magazine. Or join a program in France, Ireland, Turkey, or Israel. Learn more and apply at ieiMedia.com.Urbino Now Magazine
Covering culture and travel for visitors to Urbino and Le Marche:
Read all 30 magazine articles online or order a printed copy at Urbino Now 2012.Urbino Project 2011 Website
Read stories and view the photography and video from last year's Eppy Award-winning website.
Urbino Centro Archive
-
Healing the Cracks
By Sofia LugoThe smell of paint fills the quiet, wide room. This is the art restoration lab of the University of Urbino, where professor Michele Papi teaches... -
Restoring Urbino
By Sofia LugoMichele Papi and his sister, Federica Papi, established their own restoration business, Il Compasso, in 1983. Here are some of the works they have restored... -
Paradise Lost
By Erica DemsonThe palace doesn’t seem that big from the courtyard. It is only when I go underground to the cavernous kitchens and storerooms, where the air gets at least 10 degrees cooler, and when I walk up the wide, grand staircases that I truly understand... -
An Annotated “Ideal City”
By Erica DemsonThe painting La Citta Ideale (The Ideal City), contains many signs of Urbino's "mathematical Renaissance." Find them using our guide. -
La Diva Della Via
By Azia ToussaintHis salt-and-pepper hair goes well with his wrinkly face, and he wears a striped sun-kissed shirt with shorts to match. Captain of a clothes booth at Urbino’s Saturday market, he uses his words as bait to reel customers in; I am one of them...