Social Programme

During the two weeks of school the organization will make provisions for visits to the town art treasures and for social events: the option of a jazz concert is being evaluated.
On Evening Thursday 11st visits to oratories are organized. These small churches, called oratories, are the meeting places of confraternities, which marked the life of Italian people over the centuries from a religious, social and artistic point of view.
Below a brief description of three of them is reported.

The treasures of Urbino's Confraternities

Oratory of S. Andrea Avellino
An oratory with a circular layout, built at the beginning of the 18th century. Originally it was dedicated to St. Sebastian and indeed the painting by Giovanni Santi that hangs over the main altar is dedicated to this saint.
Oratory of Death
This was the home of brotherhood that took care of providing the dead with a Christian burial. The altar is crowned by a splendid Crucifixion with Mourners and Mary Magdalene by Federico Barocci. An ornate gold frame carved from designs by the painter himself encloses this work, which was painted between 1597 and 1603.
Oratory of S. Giovanni
The brothers Lorenzo and Jacopo Salimbeni from Sanseverino frescoed this oratory in 1416. It remains an extraordinary example of the international gothic style linking mediaeval to reinassance art.


On Saturday 13th afternoon a guided visit to the citadel, the town centre and the Ducal Palace is planned.
On Sunday 14th a trip outside Urbino will be organized. The programme includes the visit to the Hermitage of the Holy Cross at Fonte Avellana, dating back to the dark times of the first millennium, lunch based on the local gastronomical tradition, and a visit to Frontone, an imposing Castle perched atop a rocky hill, surrounded by an ancient medieval village, still untouched after many centuries. The Adriatic shores can also be easily reached by those who enjoy the traditional italian seaside summertime.


The Adriatic beaches