Bertinoro

Around 1300 the noble families of Bertinoro raised a stone column hung with rings: a traveller tying a horse to one became the guest of that family. The custom lives on in September's Hospitality Festival, when visitors pick envelopes from the rings to find their hosts. The medieval town crowns Monte Cesubeo in the Romagna hills, under a rocca that once housed Frederick Barbarossa.

Highlights

• The Colonna dell'Ospitalità, with its rings, beside the Palazzo Comunale
• The rocca from around 1000, now a sacred art museum and university centre
• The Hospitality Festival on the first weekend of September
• The Palazzo Comunale built in 1306 by Pino Ordelaffi
• The pieve of San Donato at Polenta, celebrated in a poem by Carducci

Summary based on Wikipedia and Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA), written with AI assistance.