Truly one of those towns you must experience! Voted one of the most beautiful villages in Italy, and rightly so. The town's medieval walls are still almost completely intact - a unique feat. You can take a walk along the entire town wall, a route of nine hundred and twelve metres to be precise with views of all corners of Corinaldo. From the highest spots of the wall, on clear days you can even see as far as Monte Conero! Within these sturdy walls you will find a romantic little town, with La Piaggia at its beating heart, a staircase of a hundred steps against which the red brick houses are built like a herringbone. Halfway up you will find an old well, Il Pozzo della Polenta.
There is - as so often in Italy - a wonderful story associated with the well. A man is said to have walked with a big sack of grain on his shoulders via La Piaggia, in those days not a staircase but a steep street going uphill, into the village. At the well, he paused for a moment; after all, walking uphill with such a heavy load was quite a challenge.
He set the bag down on the edge of the well for a moment, to blow out. However, the bag tumbled backwards, into the well. The man tried to save the grain, but in doing so he himself also ended up in the well. Gossip soon spread among the villagers that he was feasting on his fallen grain, which had turned into hearty polenta thanks to the water.
