Globe of Peace, Peace globe in Apecchio, Italy

The Globe of Peace is a rotating sphere approximately 10 meters in diameter, mounted on wooden support structures and covered with fiberglass painted to show continents and oceans. Two motors power the rotation, allowing the structure to demonstrate the Earth's movement as it turns.

Orfeo Bartolucci (1924-2011), a mason and later building contractor from Colombara, began the globe after seeing a 2-metre globe at Venice's Ducal Palace in the 1970s. Learning that the record belonged to an 8-metre globe at Babson College, Massachusetts, he chose a 10-metre diameter. He worked six years from 5 A.M. until dusk, funding it with his pension and savings without borrowing, and inaugurated it in 1988 before about seven thousand people.

Orfeo Bartolucci named it "Mappamondo della pace" as a wish for peace among peoples. Inside, the globe holds his collection of musical instruments and the work tools used to build it, and tables list every country of the world with its flag.

Access to the globe has been closed to the public since a November 2010 municipal council resolution citing safety regulations. A recovery plan was approved on 27 October 2012, but the necessary funds have not been found. The structure stands outdoors in a hilly area near Colombara, a hamlet of Apecchio.

Orfeo Bartolucci also built a globe just 5 mm in diameter, a miniature counterpart to the 10-metre one. Inside the globe, tables list every country of the world with their flags. The structure reportedly used 250 quintals of putty, 30 cubic metres of wood and a ton of nails.