Every city in Umbria | Italia Magnifica

Every city in Umbria

From the capital to the smallest borghi.

PerugiaThe capitalUmbria's hilltop capital is a city of students and chocolate, its medieval core gathered around the Fontana Maggiore (carved by the Pisanos) and the Palazzo dei Priori, home to the National Gallery of Umbria and Perugino's luminous rooms.
Acquasparta
Arrone
AssisiThe birthplace of Saint Francis is a pink-stone pilgrimage city rising on Monte Subasio. Its UNESCO-listed Basilica di San Francesco stacks two churches above the saint's tomb, walls alive with Giotto's Life of Saint Francis and frescoes by Cimabue.
Avigliano Umbro
Baschi
BevagnaA flat-set medieval town on the old Via Flaminia, Bevagna keeps a near-intact circle of walls and a quiet stone piazza. Each June its Mercato delle Gaite returns the streets to the Middle Ages, with craftsmen working in period workshops.
Campello sul Clitunno
Castel Viscardo
Castiglione del LagoSet on a promontory above Lake Trasimeno, Umbria's largest lake, Castiglione del Lago looks out over reed beds and islands from behind its medieval walls and fortress. It is a quiet base for boat crossings and lakeside evenings.
Città di CastelloIn the upper Tiber valley near the Tuscan border, Città di Castello pairs a refined Renaissance centre with the surrounding hills' renown for truffles. The town is best known for its museums devoted to the abstract painter Alberto Burri, a native son.
DerutaFor more than five centuries Deruta has been Italy's capital of maiolica, the tin-glazed earthenware fired in its kilns and painted in cobalt, ochre, and copper green. Workshops still line the old town, throwing and decorating by hand.
Ferentillo
FolignoSet on the plain where Umbria's valleys meet, Foligno printed the world's first edition of Dante's Divine Comedy in 1472. Each summer the city revives the baroque pageantry of the Giostra della Quintana, a costumed jousting tournament.
Giano dell'Umbria
GubbioClimbing the flank of Monte Ingino in austere grey stone, Gubbio is among Italy's best-preserved medieval towns. Its Palazzo dei Consoli rises over a cliff-supported piazza and guards the Eugubine Tablets; each May the town runs the headlong Corsa dei Ceri.
Lugnano in Teverina
Magione
Monte Castello di Vibio
MontefalcoKnown as the Ringhiera dell'Umbria (the balcony of Umbria) for its commanding views, this walled hill town gives its name to Sagrantino, one of Italy's deepest, most tannic red wines, grown on the slopes below.
Montone
Narni
Nocera Umbra
NorciaCradled in the high Sibillini mountains, Norcia is the birthplace of Saint Benedict and the heart of Italy's charcuterie tradition; the word norcineria still means a fine pork butcher. Its prized lentils and black truffles complete the larder.
OrvietoRising on a sheer plateau of volcanic tufa, Orvieto is crowned by one of Italy's great Gothic cathedrals, its golden mosaic facade blazing above striped marble and Signorelli's apocalyptic Last Judgment. A honeycomb of caves and the deep St. Patrick's Well run beneath.
Otricoli
Panicale
Parrano
Passignano sul Trasimeno
Penna in Teverina
Piegaro
Porano
Preci
San Giustino
Scheggia e Pascelupo
Sigillo
SpelloA rose-stone town wrapped in Roman gates, Spello is famous for its June Infiorate, when residents carpet the lanes in flower petals. Inside Santa Maria Maggiore, the Baglioni Chapel holds Pinturicchio's jewel-bright frescoes above a maiolica floor.
SpoletoSpoleto draws the world each summer for its Festival dei Due Mondi, a celebrated gathering of theatre, music, and dance. The cathedral's sloping piazza frames Filippo Lippi's final frescoes and a Romanesque facade glittering with mosaic.
TerniUmbria's industrial south claims Saint Valentine as its patron and reputed native son. Just outside the city, the Cascata delle Marmore plunges 165 metres in a triple cascade, a thundering waterfall engineered by the ancient Romans and released on a schedule.
TodiCrowning three concentric rings of walls (Etruscan, Roman, and medieval), Todi is often praised as one of Italy's most livable towns. Its serene Piazza del Popolo and the Renaissance pilgrimage church below the walls reward an unhurried wander.
Torgiano
TreviSpiralling up a hillside above a sea of silvery olive groves, Trevi is one of the great names in Umbrian olive oil. Its tiered medieval streets open onto sweeping views across the Spoleto valley.
Valfabbrica