Imagine Montefeltro’s winter. A cold and dry season with limpid air able to show off the country’s skyline. Imagine snow, that covered also valley lines for months, in the past, and that currently whitens peacks and, in particular, Mount Carpegna.
For people who want to allow themselves a skiing week-end or even a single Sunday, the ski runs of the ‘Eremo’ (hermitage of Carpegna) or Villagrande - easier for children and learners, can be reached from Rimini or Pesaro only a little after one hour driving. The ‘Eremo’ offers modern skilift facilities that are lightened at night for skiing at night also. Furthermore, artificial snow facilities allow sport tourists to ski on ever snow-covered runs, also in case of lacking natural precipitations.

For mountain bike lovers, once left the many asphalted roads, theycan find as many unsurfaced paths. They are old farm-roads and peripheral streets: previous passages for herds and flocks during the past. They connect Carpegna to Sasso Simone, till the plateau where Cosimo De Medici the First tried to build his own ideal city as a fortified and self-governing area, in front of the sunrise and sunset as well: this place had to be called Città del Sasso (the “Stone City”). Other pathways go from Mount Carpegna through old tracks used by shepherds and woodcutters. Riders of mountain bikes can discover the beauty of Logo of Lupaiolo arriving from Sassocorvaro, the Faggiola hill overhanging Macerata Feltria or Pietrafagnana, in the town of Pietrarubbia, through solitary and wooded streets. All along the Conca valley and the surrounding hills, there are many beautiful paths devoted to mountain bike lovers: they are easy smooth walks, changing in panoramic and precipitous mountain paths towards Mount San Paolo or Montecerignone’s picturesque surroundings.
Every town and tourist office can help you to find Montefeltro’s best routes.