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The Furlo Pass (Italian: Gola del Furlo or Passo del Furlo) is a gorge on the ancient Roman road Via Flaminia in the Marche region of central Italy, where it passes near the Candigliano river, a tributary of the Metauro.

The gorge was formed between the Pietralata (889 m) and Paganuccio (976 m) mountains by the river Candigliano, which whooshed in full spate through the district until it was dammed in 1922. Since 2001 it has been included in a State Natural Reserve of the same name.

In the last century, the Furlo Gorge, was one of the favorite stop by Mussolini during his travels from Rome to his native land of Romagna.

In Mussolini passed through the Furlo and in the Forest Militia wanted to immortalise the famous profile of the Duce in the mountainside.

The Furlo Pass (Italian: Gola del Furlo or Passo del Furlo) is a gorge on the ancient Roman road Via Flaminia in the Marche region of central Italy.

It is said that in the '20s, Mussolini, when leaving Rome to head back to Predappio, followed the Via Flaminia and thus crossed the Gola del Furlo.

The Gola del Furlo near Fermignano in the Marche region also became a pilgrimage site under the regime owing to the creation on the mountain face of a.

It is often marketed to tourists in the region as the "Grand Canyon of Italy."

The Roman emperor Vespasian had a tunnel built here to facilitate passage on the Via Flaminia at the narrowest point of the gorge (hence the name, from the Latina forulum, meaning "small hole").

Next to it is a similar but smaller tunnel dating from Etruscan times. The tunnel has a length of 38.30 meters and a height of 5.95 meters. During the Gothic Wars (6th century), the Ostrogoth Kin