The festival commemorates the arrival in Mondavio of Giovanni Della Rovere and dignitaries of the Duchy of Urbino for taking possession of the Vicariate, a gift from Pope Sixtus IV on the occasion of his marriage with Giovanna, daughter of Federico da Montefeltro. The program provides for the opening on 13th with Renaissance banquet. On days 14th and 15th there will be parades, contests of skill, evocation of paintings of Renaissance life they will be the prelude to the evening event, "sounds and lights", the great theatrical show that culminates in the simulation of fire to the fortress. In the squares and streets of the town animations of jugglers, musicians, and acrobats. The fireworks conclude the evening, on the background of the Rock, the highest expression of the military architecture of the early Renaissance.