Talamello | ||
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State | Italy | |
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Region | Emilia Romagna | |
Territory | Valmarecchia | |
Altitude | 386 m a.s.l. | |
Surface | 10.59 km² | |
Inhabitants | 1.085 (2019) | |
Name inhabitants | Talamellesi | |
Prefix tel | 0541 | |
POSTAL CODE | 47867 | |
Time zone | UTC 1 | |
Patron | San Lorenzo (10 August) | |
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Talamello is a center ofEmilia Romagna.
To know
Talamello boasts an ancient important tradition: the production of pit cheese.
Background
In united Italy the municipality of Talamello belonged to the Marche (province of Pesaro is Urbino) until 15 August 2009, when it was seconded together with six other municipalities in the Alta area Valmarecchia, in implementation of the outcome of a referendum held on 17 and 18 December 2006, to be aggregated to theEmilia Romagna and the province of Rimini.
How to orient yourself
Its municipal territory also includes the hamlets of Ca 'Francescone, Ca' Fusino, Campiano, Cava and Collina.
How to get
By plane
- Airport of Rimini (about 40 km)
- Airport of Forlì (about 60 km)
- Airport Ancona (About 125 km)
- Airport of Bologna (about 120 km)
By car
- From the A14 exit, according to the origin, a Rimini North or Rimini South (follow the signs Sansepolcro - Novafeltria). In half an hour you reach Talamello.
- For those coming from the north, exit at the toll booth Cesena North of the A14, take the E45 towards Rome, exit a Sarsina, to Sant'Agata Feltria, Talamello, Novafeltria.
- For those coming from central Italy, reach Sansepolcro (AR) and take the E45 towards Cesena, exiting at Sarsina, towards Sant'Agata Feltria, Novafeltria; or in Sansepolcro take the SS 258 "Marecchiese", towards Rimini, Novafeltria, Talamello.
It is connected with the ports of the Greece, Croatia, Turkey, Albania, Montenegro.
On the train
- Railway station of Rimini, continue with the FER buses, Rimini-Novafeltria line.
By bus
How to get around
What see
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- 1 Sanctuary of San Lorenzo, Garibaldi Square. Of seventeenth-century origin, the sanctuary houses a precious painted Crucifix that was long considered above by Giotto. Then it was instead attributed to one of his pupils, Giovanni da Rimini, an important artist of the Giotto school.
- The church also boasts a polychrome wooden statue of the Madonna and Child dating back to the fifteenth century and a wooden crucifix from the sixteenth century.
- 2 Cell of the Madonna. It is a votive chapel at the cemetery. Commissioned by bishop Giovanni Seclani in 1437, it preserves the works of Antonio Alberti, a Ferrarese who lived in Urbino, who painted it entirely. The paintings on the front wall represent the Adoration of the Magi, the Presentation in the Temple and hosts of saints venerated in the area.
- The vaults are cross vaults and show frescoes of the Four Evangelists and the Doctors of the Church. These works show the high artistic level of the author, who worked in the period of transition from the canons of Gothic art to those of Renaissance painting.
- 3 Museum - Pinacoteca Gualtieri "The splendor of the real", Borgo Mazzini 29. It collects the works (about forty) that the painter Fernando Gualtieri donated to the town of Talamello in the early 2000s.
- The museum is housed in the former Amintore Galli theater, housed in the former medieval church of Sant'Antonio abate.
- Pits of Amber. It is possible to visit, subject to availability of the owners, the pits of the "L'Ambra di Talamello" pit cheese. Some are also located in the restaurant "La locanda dell'Ambra", in Piazza Garibaldi.
Events and parties
- Frog Festival.
in August. It consists of carrying frogs or toads on some towed carts. We must then cross the finish line hoping that these do not jump off and the winner is whoever carries the biggest frog.
- "L'Ambra di Talamello" Fair.
in August on Saturdays and Sundays. Festival dedicated to the tasting and promotion of pit cheese Amber of Talamello, a characteristic product of the country.
What to do
Shopping
in Talamello the cheese is ditched: the cheese is buried in August and then returned to light in November and this event is accompanied by the fair, the "Ambra di Talamello", so called by Tonino Guerra, which generally it is celebrated on the third Saturday and Sunday of the month: on Saturday through an unusual event where the cheese is presented through a sophisticated buffet together with wine tasting and on Sunday with the traditional festival. Talamello strictly follows the tradition that is renewed every year, and an essential element of the same is that of the only hollow per year, which takes place in the month of August.
How to have fun
Where to eat
Average prices
- 1 The Amber Inn, Garibaldi Square, ☎ 39 0541 920902.
- 2 Point to head, via Cava, 2, ☎ 39 0541 922783.
- 3 Tapir & Glo, Garibaldi Square, ☎ 39 0541 920430.
- 4 Tanha, Rock garden (in Borgnano), ☎ 39 0541 921387.