Gola del Furlo
Province of Pesaro and Urbino
The Furlo Gorge is a narrow gorge carved by the Candigliano river into the limestone walls of Mount Pietralata and Mount Paganuccio. The ancient Via Flaminia passes along the gorge, with the famous Roman tunnel carved under Vespasian (76 AD) still passable today. The nature reserve protects golden eagles, wolves and endemic flora. Canoes can be rented to navigate between the rock walls.
Roman gallery
Year 76 AD, Vespasian
Activities
Trekking, canoeing
Other places in Pesaro-Urbino
Related stories
Monte Pietralata: the Furlo mountain and Mussolini’s profile
On the rocks of Furlo, an intervention in 1936 turned the landscape into propaganda. The story of the profile, its partial destruction and the mountain that preserves its traces.
At Furlo, the Romans carved a road through the mountain
Along the Via Flaminia, in the Gola del Furlo, a Roman tunnel shows the radical ambition of ancient road engineering.