Via del Monte
This is the road which ascends from San Marziale towards Mount Ingino flanking the Cathedral Gardens. It was Hermann Hesse’s favourite walk on his visits to Gubbio. The writer found Gubbio fascinating: “The magnificent, almost reckless daring of this architecture creates an absolutely astonishing effect and has something incredible and disquieting about it. One seems to be dreaming or to be looking at the set of a theatrical performance and one has to constantly remind oneself that it really is all there, permanent and fixed in stone.... Path upon path invited me on, all steep and silent...I slowly began to climb and soon I was offered the view over the wide and fertile valley....” (from “Gubbio” by Hermann Hesse).