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In 1465 or 1466, Duca Federigo da Montefeltro, whose astonishing profile is known to us from Piero della Francesca's famous portrait, engaged the Dalmatian architect Luciano Laurana to redesign and extend his palace, or fortress, as it then was.
In the patent by which the Duca appointed Laurana sole "Capo-maestro" of the work, Federigo described him as a man "more skilled in architectdure founded upon arithmetic and geometry and any in Tuscany".
The Palazzo Ducale domintates the hill town and the surrounding countryside.
From down below it looks like a medieval group of spires and towers, but at close quarters it is a characteristically horizontal Renaissance design.
It is of cream-coloured limestone and occupies the principal piazza of the town adjacent to a church.
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