The village of Montetiffi is set in an area of about 1,400 hectares recognized as a Site of Community Interest for the presence of numerous places of naturalistic and historical-artistic value and as a destination for the San Vicinio Walk. It stands on the top of a high cliff, together with the thousand-year-old Abbey of St. Leonard, built of tanned stone in the mid-11th century and donated to the monks of St. Benedict. The abbey is one of the most important Romanesque monuments in Emilia Romagna for its antiquity and beauty. The interior preserves ancient works of art: frescoes of the 14th-century Rimini school, a 17th-century baptismal font, and 14th-century epigraphs. The rooms of the former abbey rectory house the “Agostino Venanzio Reali Museum – Art and Poetry,” which collects more than one hundred works – paintings, drawings, terracottas – by Venanzio Reali (1931 – 1994) a Capuchin friar and native of Ville Montetiffi. This singular “artist of faith” was a biblical scholar, painter, poet and sculptor. Descending from the village of Montetiffi along the Via della Rupe – a narrow, ancient path carved into the rock – one reaches the Uso Stream and the Romanesque Bridge, built around the year 1000. It was an important link between Romagna, Montefeltro and Tuscany and was also used to smuggle gunpowder, tobacco and alcohol. Next to the bridge are the ruins of the ancient Molino Tornani and the striking Marmitte dei Giganti, works of nature. Montetiffi is traditionally the town of the tegliai, the only place in Italy where the centuries-old art of making piada baking pans using exclusively artisanal methods continues. The process that leads a boulder of clay to become the tinkling dish on which the “piada, bread of Romagna” will be baked is long and laborious, but full of poetry. Teglie’s last workshop is in nearby Ville Montetiffi, a small village 3km from Montetiffi in which there is also the birthplace of Father Venanzio Reali.