Sansepolcro, cradle of Renaissance painting

In the province of Arezzo, in Valtiberina, that part of Tuscany in which the initial stretch of the Tiber flows, closed between Umbria, Marche and Romagna, is Sansepolcro, a village of about 15,400 inhabitants rich in history and considered by many to be the cradle of culture of the renaissance. In the center, which can be defined as a real widespread museum, stands the Cathedral of San Giovanni Battista, born in the 10th century as a Benedictine monastery and developed up to the present conception, with an imposing stone facade in Roman Gothic style. A must is the Civic Museum which preserves the precious works of the most illustrious citizen of Sansepolcro, the forefather of Renaissance painting, Piero della Francesca. During the Second World War, the captain of the English army refused to bomb the city, remembering that the painting of the Resurrection of the painter was kept there, in fact pardoning it. A particular museum is set up in the residence of Palazzo Bourbon del Monte, a nature trail called Herbs and Health in the Centuries that tells in detail the therapeutic power of herbs, handing down the history of the millennial relationship between man and plants. Sansepolcro is located in a central position on the Camino di Francesco in the stretch from the Eremo della Verna to Assisi, which sees pilgrims from all over the world walking along paths.