Perched on top of one of the highest hills of the Conca Valley, overlooking the city of Rimini on the Adriatic Coast and on the whole, we find the village of Montefiore Conca, the old capital of the Malatesta lands along the river basin, a real balcony overlooking gentle slopes that gently flow into the Adriatic. It is named Castrum Montis Floris and was mentioned for the first time in the twelfth century in a document signed by Pope Alexander III as a valuable concession to the Church of Rimini. Was placed under the jurisdiction of the Municipality of Rimini and then move on to the end of the thirteenth century under the rule of the Malatesta family who held it until 1462, the control, when Sigismondo Malatesta was defeated by Federico da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino. Montefiore later returned under the dominion of the Church that alternated its power with Cesare Borgia, the Venetians, the Medici before the final stability that was maintained until 1797, when the village became part of the Cisalpine Republic and then back to Papal States in 1815. 
Our tour starts crossing gate Curina characterized by coats of arms of Pius II Piccolomini and Cardinal Nicholas Forteguerri, which came shortly before the parish church dedicated to St. Paul, originally from the twelfth century, with elegant portal on the side left, in white stone frieze depicting the Mystic Lamb. Within We can see the altarpiece with the Madonna della Misericordia with Saints "attributed to Bernardino Dolci, a fresco depicting the" Madonna del Latte "by the same author, a crucifix of Rimini school dating from the fourteenth century. Continuing the upward path we reach a tower with a pointed arch that leads into the massive fortress built by Malatesta Ruin in 1337. It was called "stone sentinel" or "medieval skyscrapers that seeks the light" as a powerful symbol of the entire Valconca Malatesta. The entrance is surmounted by a large stone coat of arms while the courtyard is a well fourteenth century, finely crafted. Inside, among a variety of environments, it is worth mentioning that the Emperor's Hall traces of fourteenth century frescoes, the throne room that has detached frescoes attributed to the Bolognese painter Jacopo Avanzi, the Gothic Room of the clock. Around the castle is gathered in a circle the old fortified town enclosed by solid walls with numerous towers and the rest of the town stretches along the road that gently rises and falls downstream.
Leaving the village towards the church Morciano reach the hospital, built between 1470 and 1474 to serve as a hospice for pilgrims. The current facade is nineteenth-century while the interior, recently restored, contains a cycle of frescoes by Bernardino Sweets depicting the Judgement of God with consequent separation of souls between heaven and hell. Coming down the country for about a mile we carry the most popular Marian shrine of the Diocese of Rimini, or the Sanctuary of the Madonna di Bonora. In 1409 the hermit of secular Ondidei Bonora bequeathed to the Franciscan friars in his cell where there was painted the image of the Madonna nursing, revealed after the miraculous. It was then erected a shrine that first underwent many changes over time to reach its present due to the first half of last century. 
The building has three naves, elegant coffered ceiling, gilded apse, altars with paintings by seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and is adorned with frescoes, precious marble and precious gold. The sacred image of Our Lady, at the center of the great altar is a fresco painter Giotto Rimini school dating from the fourteenth century. The sacristy is full of paintings and votive objects that testify to the devotion of the residents of Montefiore and Rimini in general towards the sweet Marian icon that so many have dispensed with over time. The Special Envoy
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