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assisi - Assisi should be a perfect Umbrian hill town. It's a tiered, overgrown village of pink and pale-gray stone drawn out along a mountainside and surrounded by a valley patchwork of...
cascia - Coming to Cascia means actively choosing to do so; it is not a place which one comes upon by chance.
The thousands of pilgrims who come here all the year round come in the hope...
deruta - Deruta is world-famous for its ceramic art, which dates back to the Middle Ages. The oldest and most important commissioned works date back to the 13th century. But the greatest...
foligno - The town of Foligno is a town lying on the Umbrian plain, on the left bank of the river Topino. Thanks to its position, it became the most important industrial and commercial...
gubbio - Gubbio looks every inch the no-nonsense town, a central Italian city of distilled medieval fundamentals. Sharp-edged fortresslike buildings of light stone line long roads that...
montefalco - Montefalco is a snall Umbrian village which offers a sweeping panorama of the Umbrian countryside.
Walking along the city walls which delimit the historic centre of Montefalco...
norcia - Situated at 604 meters above sea level between the Sordo and Torbidone rivers, the town of Norcia, in ancient times known as "Nursia",is the region's largest town....
orvieto - Orvieto origins go back to the Etruscan civilization: the first Etruscan settlements, going back to the 9th Century B.C., infact, were found inside the tufaceous caves in the...
perugia - The monumental centre of Perugia is represented by the Piazza IV Novembre together with the steep alleys which lead as far as the oldest walls of the original Etruscan nucleus...
spello - Spello rises up between Assisi and Foligno, it is so situated as to afford a magnificent view of the Umbrian plain all the way from Perugia to Spoleto.
Of particular interest...
spoleto - Spoleto's main nonmusical treasures are Roman and medieval. Though nothing other than the Duomo, containing Filippo Lippi's last fresco cycle, and the graceful Ponte delle Torri...
todi - Todiís territory is situated between Perugia and Terniís provinces and offers to the visitor a sensation of return to those ancient times which the modern civilization seems to...
umbria - This region presents itself at first sight as a region where the numerous medieval cities blend with lush rolling hills. For this reason, Umbria is well known as the "Green...
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