A woman in a red ball gown is belting out an aria from a balcony, a floor above the street. Tourists stand agog, but residents – teens in football kits, dog walkers, parents with tots on scooters, barely notice. This is just life in Pesaro, a Unesco City of Music, and the Italian Capital of Culture for 2024 – an initiative that promotes a city’s one-of-a-kind culture.
Peering out over the Adriatic Sea on Italy’s east coast, a 90-minute train journey from Bologna, Pesaro has musical roots that burrow back to the 18th century, when composer Gioachino Rossini was born in the city.
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