St. Augustine Monastery
Going back for a few metres we will see, on the right, the imposing complex of S. Agustine Monastery dating back to the XIIIth century. It played a central role in the social and religious life of Pietralunga until the XVII, when the function was discontinued and transferred to Cantiano a small town in the Province of Pesaro. Here the public school had its seat where regular lessons were given by Augustine friars.
-The Carmine square
We then go down the flight of stairs that border the monastery to reach, in the middle of them, the small square of the Carmine. On the adjacent houses, we can see the typical medieval doors of the “dead” (walled up and opened only to let corpses of dead people pass through), and of the “alive” (ordinary entrance door).
In the small square of the Carmine there was once the namesake Monastery with the “ spitale degli infermi” (the hospital of the sick) and the church. We continue going down the second part of the stairs and reach Via dell’Ospedale. If we look on the right, at the end of the stairs , we will notice the place where the second gate of Pietralunga was; it was called “ Porta Carraia” because the “carri” (carts) carrying commercial and artisanal merchandise used to enter the town by this gate.