For vacation, I was looking for a small town similar to my beloved Sabbioneta and came up with another “ideal city”, built by Cosimo I de’ Medici. We found pretty unique lodgings in the castle overseeing the Porta fiorentina (the other town gate is called the Porta romana), but its central piazza being occupied by workers on a big event, the circumstances were less than ideal, and we were forced to retire to adjacent Castrocaro most of the time.