Territory | LAGO TRASIMENO

Le isole del Lago Trasimeno Le tre isole nel cuore verde d`Italia Prendere un traghetto e recarsi in un luogo incontaminato è ancora il sogno di tutti noi. Nel Lago Trasimeno ciò è possibile, basta andare alla biglietteria ed acquistare un biglietto per una delle isole del suo comprensorio. Io l’ho fatto domenica scorsa e sebbene ogni tanto qualche nuvola minacciosa passasse sopra le nostre teste lo scenario era meraviglioso. Le isole del lago sono tre: la Maggiore, la Minore e la Polvere, per cui c’è spazio anche per decidere quale visitare per prima. Il traghetto si può prendere in più luoghi, a seconda di dove ci troviamo; Castiglion del Lago, Tuoro, Passignano e San Feliciano, i prezzi sono modici e non si arriva a superare le 13.000. Le isole sono luoghi naturalistici dove si possono incontrare folaghe, germani, anatre, ed anche due specie di falchi: quello di palude e quello pescatore. Nell’isola Maggiore si può anche respirare un sapore di altri tempi, infatti vi si trova un

Territory | TREVI

TREVI CITTA`DELL`0LIO IDEAL AND MUSEUMS Trevi, once view, remains etched in memory as it is perched on the extension of Monte Serano, immersed in a sea of olive trees and surrounded by walls intact medieval walls of his appearance struck many illustrious passengers traveling over the underlying Via Flaminia, which we asked how we could live in a place so steep: if they had climbed up on top of the hill were found with surprise the large square, which, extending nell`amena promenade of San Martino in view of the valley, makes Trevi a truly unique place. Olive trees characterize the landscape and mark the life of the inhabitants, who have never broken the ancient tradition of olive growing. One need only recall the millennial Olivo S. Erniliano, real rarity botany, the thriving trade of documented since the Renaissance and certificates of higher quality now that the oil product continues to recover. From the secular culture of its origin in the establishment of the Regional

Territory | City della Pieve

CITTA OF PIEVE Located at 508 m s.l.m. on the border between Umbria and Tuscany and not far from Lazio, Città della Pieve dominates the Chiana Valley and the Lake Trasimeno. The landscape of great evocative pictorial, inspired d native said Pietro Vannucci `Il Perugino "(1450 ca.-1523), who has left many works (Cathedral, Oratorio di Santa Maria del Bianchi, Santa Maria dei Servi, San Pietro ). The ancient Castel della Pieve, built around the century. VII AD as an outpost of Tuscany in Lombard sighting of Byzantine Perugia, was developed between the secc. XII and XIII in relation to the growing impaludamento`s Valdichiana. Always a rebel Perugia Guelph, sottomise that since 1188, was a free Commune Ghibelline under the protection of The Frederick of Swabia and friendship with Siena, the largest imperial power of central wire. He was elevated by Pope Clement VIII City and the Diocese in Jubilee of 1600. In 1780 hosted the `Concordat Plumber "between Pius VI and Pietro Leopoldo of Tus

Territory | Foresta Fossile di Dunarobba

L`ANTICA FOREST Dunarobba The paleontological site Dunarobba, town not far from Avigliano Umbro, takes us back to more than duemilioni of years ago, when forests huge sequoias grew on the shores of Lake Tiber basin in prehistory that lapped most of the region. The particularity of the forest Dunarobba, which makes it unique in view of the fossil deposits Italian and international, is in an upright position that has kept its giant logs, which svetta as totem from the ground. Around this extraordinary site, brought to light between 1970 and 1987, arose the Documentation Center of the Fossil Forest Dunarobba that performs research and studies (supported by the discovery of fossil animals and plants) on paleoambientali and landscape changes related to the presence Tiber basin.

Territory | Bevagna - informazioni

DA SEE IN THE CITY CENTER The city now has kept its medieval appearance, keeping well enough in its roads the Roman grid. Porta Foligno, one of the doors to the city, was restored in 1797. Del Teatro Romano currently are few visible remnants of ambulatory, supporting the steps of cavea. Roman Temple, dating to the second century. AD, there remain only some ruins, as the building was transformed into the Church of Our Lady of the Snow. The Church of St. Francis, sec. XIII, stands at the highest point of Bevagna and presents inside the century paintings. XIV and XVI. Porta Cannara, sec. XIII, is another of the doors in Bevagna. The Roman Mosaic, belonging to an environment of the Roman Baths, dates from the century, AD. Made with black and white tiles, is marine animals. The Palazzo Comunale, rebuilt in 1832, houses the library, l `History and Art Gallery. In `atrium, along the scale, collection of ancient inscriptions and fragments. Piazza Filippo Silvestri, one of the most beautiful

Territory | Deruta una fragile Arte

Del old castrum remain today only some sections of walls, The arches of the three gateways and the medieval streets that converge towards Piazza dei Consoli. Here, in the convent of St. Francis, has established the Regional Museum of traditional and contemporary pottery. Why Deruta, a village at about fifteen kilometers from Perugia, is famous worldwide for his creations. An art which has news from the Middle Ages: the first documents that mention "commissions" for work of this kind in fact dates back to the thirteenth century (although the maximum phase of development came from the first Cinquecento), and local artisans were considered the best on the ground: it was the workshops of Deruta that was given, for example, the execution of the chapel floor of Palazzo dei Priori and Sacrestia adjacent to the Basilica di San Pietro in Perugia, and the Baglioni Chapel in Spello. The museum traces the development of the Deruta pottery, from decorations to Feathered peacock eye and concentric b

Territory | Foligno e il suo territorio

Dopo the Middle Ages, the ancient center gathered around the Church of Sant Andrea `and the hills of San Giacomo experienced a significant development, followed by a further stage of expansion in the fifteenth century with the creation of new village on the plain of Ghiararo. This pool was necessary mainly because of the considerable economic and political functions assigned to Levanto from the Republic of Genoa which made the village medioeva insufficient. This new settlement still retains its linear nature with interesting buildings of the XVII and XVIII centuries that overlook the two sides of Via Garibaldi and Via Guani, recently restored thanks to an intervention called "Project Raffaello" aside from the European Union. ATTRACTIONS IN HISTORIC CENTER: From the train station you arrive at Porta Romana, where, against a backdrop of oaks, is the marble statue of the greatest painter of Foligno, Nicolo di Liberatore said Alunno `l (1430-1502). Continuing toward the city center, al

Territory | Le fonti del Clitunno

`Hello Umbria green, and you source of pure, many Clitunno! " With these words from a beautiful and famous poet`s ode Giosuè Carducci sung these places were already so many other writers of antiquity had `exalted and admired. The sources of Clitunno: charming and unusual place, corner of exceptional beauty and peace, little scenario of colors and lights, but great for `incredible fusion of many elements of nature. A rich vegetation consists mainly of poplars and weeping willows are reflected in the waters of the lake limpidissime. Here intense colors create exceptional reflexes: everything seems uncertain recruit the boundaries of fables and `unreality. ti A good law ancient peoples, faced with this scenario, thought that he resided here Clitunno the god, god river from deep water waived its oracles. Here the ancient thought that it would bring the animals to be sacrificed because they believed that only this lake, with the purity and clarity of its waters, had the power to make t

Territory | Cascata delle Marmore

Cascata of Marmore. The basin was filled Rieti, `in the Quaternary period, from the great lake Velino, which covered almost the entire basin today. Even in this period of history lake stretched over a large part of the current flat. The closed northwest, toward the valley of Nera, the threshold of Marmore, travertine natural dam, built by the same waters, which had pushed the calcium carbonate they owned. Pliny says that "in exitus paludis reatinae SAXUM crescit. These calcareous concretions prevented the flow of water for millennia, or rather, the waters overflow for a large tract. This would seem wonderful. The scale and stallattiti flat, so that still decorate the fringe much of the eastern ciglioni Marmore, the witness. According to tradition, was the console Curio Dentatus (v.) in 271 BC, which was cut into a rock channel, said Cava Curiana, allowing the outflow of water and emptying the swamps on Black. Only a few remained in plain lakes, including Lake Piediluco, who, having to

Territory | Gualdo Cattaneo - informazioni

DA SEE IN HISTORIC CENTER La Rocca is a fortress in the form of an equilateral triangle, with three towers communicating with each other and vie with the underlying groundwater castle walls. The Church of Saints Anthony and Anthony, built in 1260, has suffered through several centuries remakes. The original building remains the crypt, some bas-reliefs on the facade and apse `inside, a table of the 1350 tempering school umbrosenese, depicting the Madonna and Child. The Church of St. Andrea, Romanesque, dates back to centuries. XIII. The Church of St. Augustine, built in 1136, retains a large fresco of the Crucifixion, made in 1482 by the school of the painter Nicholas Folignate Alunno. SURROUNDINGS A few kilometers from the capital are striking castles dating, for the most part, to sec. XIII: Baratta, with substantial remains of the walls of which was enclosed in 1452; Ceralti, provided by the cult to the goddess Ceres on that `high hill (Cereris Altior); Tank, main castle, se

Territory | Montefalco - informazioni

DA SEE IN HISTORIC CENTER Calling for his position of the railing `Umbria. Montefalco dominates the wide valley from Perugia to Spoleto. For its frescoes is considered a sanctuary d `Tuscan-Umbrian art. Along the walls around the old town, s `meet the four ports: Port St. Augustine, the most majestic with its battlements Ghibellines, Porta della Rocca, demolished at the beginning of the twentieth century., Porta Camiano, by the name of the hamlet to which it is addressed, and the Port Frederick, dedicated to `Emperor, or why San Bartolomeo built to `side of the apse of the Romanesque church the same name. The Church of St. Augustine, sec. XIII - XIV, frescoes of Umbrian painters of school-Siena (sec. XIV-XVI): Nelli, Lorenzetti, Mezzastris, Alunno, Melanzio, Caporali. The strange legend of Beato Pellegrino, whose body is kept inside the church. Built on the square and along Corso Mameli in the XV - XVII, are remarkable examples of civil architecture of the palaces: Moriconi - Calvi

Territory | Nocera Umbra - informazioni

DA SEE IN HISTORIC CENTER Centro Storico very interesting along the streets that date back to the Torre Civica said "bells". Pass Port St. Francis, dettaPorta Vecchia, climbing along Corso Vittorio Emanuele, meet Portici San Filippo, an ancient walkway inside the walls leading to the Church of San Filippo, in Gothic style, revisited from the architect Luigi Potetti in 1886. On the right there is the Church of Santa Chiara with gilded wooden altars, three paintings by Carlo Maratta (1642) and a splendidacantoriain Venetian style. InPiazza Caprera, one encounters the Church of San Francesco del 1300, now houses the Museo Civico, with frescoes painted by Matthew Grove of 1400, presents major works: a wooden crucifix Franciscan of the second half of the thirteenth century. and Polittico of Nicholas of Liberatore of 1483. For Via San Rinaldo, we arrive at the Cathedral of 1448, placed on top of the hill, rebuilt several times and tistt-UCTURE: that you keep a Romanesque portal with decorat

Territory | Sellano - informazioni

DA SEE IN HISTORIC CENTER The Palazzo Comunale is a building with prospectus sixteenth and presents inside traces of the century frescoes. XVI. The Church of St. Francis said Madonna della Croce, completed in 1538, is octagonal with pronaos gable topped by the body and a rectangular apse. The interior is divided into three naves, all the chapels have altars sixteenth of wood or stone. The Church of St. Mary, built in sec. XIII, was rebuilt in sec. XVI. Inside, canvases of sec. XVI and XVII, pulpit carved walnut and gold on a triptych of sec. XV. SURROUNDINGS The portions of the City of Sellano are particularly rich in remains of castles and works of art. A Cammoro, the Church of St. Maria Novella is not a case of frequent church roof, is combined with an ancient road deck, which are still visible two hits. The first, under the `current facade of the church, is partially blocked by the modern scale d` entrance, the second, on the opposite side and a lower height `,` was the access

Territory | Spello - informazioni

DA SEE IN HISTORIC CENTER La Porta Consular, triumvirale-Augustan age, has three tubes and presents the top three statues of age or Republican Julio-Claudian, from the area of `amphitheater. La Cappella Tega, sec. XIV, is embellished with frescoes fifteenth of the Umbrian school, including the Crucifixion, attributed to `Alunno. The Church of St. Maria Maggiore, sec. XIIIXVII, which stands on the ruins of a temple sacred to Juno and Vesta, is famous for the Baglioni Chapel, painted in 1501 by Bernardino di Betto, known as Pinturicchio. In the Palazzo dei Canonici next to the church, the seat of the Pinacoteca, opened in 1994 with the liturgical furnishings from the parish of St. Maria Maggiore and works of art owned by the municipality. Currently collects between paintings, sculptures, fabrics and objects of arts minors, a hundred pieces from sec. XII to the early twentieth century. Of great honor to the Madonna Enthroned with Child (XII century) and the Cross astile Paul Vanni (1398

Territory | Trevi - informazioni

DA SEE IN HISTORIC CENTER Piazza Garibaldi was called in ancient Piazza del Lago because it gathered a defensive purpose water drain on the Mount (until sec. XVIII). Clitunno The Theater, built by architect Domenico `Mollaioli in 1874, keeps inside a curtain painted in 1877 by Domenico Bruschi representative visiting the` Emperor Caligula in the Temple of Clitunno. Adorned the facade of a building a monochrome graffiti depicting the tale of Diana and Attenne. In Piazza Mazzini is the Palazzo Comunale, which dates back to centuries. XIII, we note the porch (fifteenth century), balcony (seventeenth century) and Renaissance windows. The communal Torre, is sec. XIII, the biggest bell (1522) bears the distico "convene signo known, defeated, Concini, ploro / Arma, dies, horas, single, laeta, rogos" (Meeting the troops, to the day, sound the hours, away the time, celebrate holidays, crying the dead). Palazzo Valenti, today Natalini, housing renaissance, has a curved facade with portal and

Territory | Valtopina - informazioni

Il City of Valtopina is considered unique geographical hamlet inhabited by of Jupiter, Sasso, Gallo, Pasano, Casa Thomas, Balcar, Colfulignato, Vallemare, Poggio, Santa Cristina and Franchillo, small and quaint settlements origin of the medieval hill-rich testimonies historic. Among the castles built during the Middle Ages in various inhabited, raises particular interest the Castello di Poggio (XI sec.), Home of Viscount Valley Topino and town hall until 1867; of `imposing Castello di Serra (XI-XII century .) Contested in 1229 between accounts Armenzano and the lords of Assisi for its strategic position, remain evocative ruins surrounded by vegetation, which have inspired many legends popular, is also interesting Castle gallate (XII sec.) With the His village, where you can still observe the structures characteristics of medieval architecture. Since medieval castle every village and venerated its own patron saint: in a list of the XIII century has demonstrated the presence of approxi

Territory | Lago dell`Aiso

Dal glues Capro, falling to the right, continue for a way to get all white Aiso or `abyss, picturesque lake with a diameter of about 25 meters from very deep waters, about 13 meters, surrounded by a row of poplars. A l `Aiso is connected to the old legend, known since` 600, a rich and miserly farmer on behalf clear that he wanted to thresh the grain on the day of s. Anna, day in the tradition dedicated strictly to rest and the feast of Our Lady of the mother. That is his will, to be in breach of that rule, said the tradition that `bush, where he was Trebbiano sink with all people who were working there, forming a lake soon after, the` present. The loving wife Clare scampi with danger to a child but a revolu `d followed the water and submerged the son of` wicked farmer in the place where it is now a small source said `l Asillo.

Territory | Sasso di Pale

Il Sasso of Pale dominates, with its characteristic mole pyramid, the vast plain of Foligno. To the south is sharply cut by a steep wall of limestone, thick layers of limestone massif, tilted and broken by tectonic forces that raise the `Apennines, it outlines the architecture, which lies on the valley of Menotre, upstream of its confluence with the Topino. Menotre II, perhaps for ancient dams, has placed here a thick plate of travertine - there is also a small cave to visit, full of concretions - on which it is perched the village of Pale, still surrounded by walls. II village controls the broad valley below, full of olive trees that date back rents mountain sides, along which, for the `old way Plestina, it saliva from the highlands of Flaminia Colfiorito. Top, a concave wall, clinging to the rock with which seems to melt - it comes from the village on foot, along a steep path - is the Hermitage of San ` Maria Giacobbe.

Territory | Gubbio - la città

Insediamenti in Eugubino are documented by the middle Paleolithic. Was center of Gubbio in Umbria, as the tables Eugubine, the most remarkable relic of epigraphic `pre Italy. The city strinse alliance with Roma since sec III. a.C, then becoming important City Hall. Later it was part of the Byzantine domain, which is subtracted in `VIII sec. When it was occupied by the Lombard king. In the twelfth century. reached a communal self. Towards the middle of the thirteenth century began Guelph preponderance of which was a long period of prosperity. The city reached a high number of inhabitants, developed the arts, were built on the impressive municipal buildings. The development is arrested in 1350, with the stroke of the hand of Giovanni Gabrielli. Between 1354 and 1376 Gubbio was submitted to the domain of the Church. There followed a period of internal strife that led (1384) submission to the city Montefeltro. The domination of the dukes of Urbino gave rise to a period of relative prosperi

Territory | Costacciaro - la città

Costacciaro, a small village of about 1,300 inhabitants, was an ancient castle (Castrum Costacciaro) along the consular Via Flaminia. In the thirteenth century. was purchased from the town of Gubbio. In 1384 the spontaneously is subject Montefeltro and became an `extreme bastion of the Duchy of Urbino. It was characterized by a defensive structure with walls and a system of towers and gates, most still exist. The territory of Costacciaro, located at the Regional Park of Monte Cucco, is ideal for sports related to the environment: caving, the Gliders and cross country skiing. II massif of Mount Cucco, a protected natural area since 1995, is the park of groundwater, karst caves (between the main Europe for depth and extent), Course d `uncontaminated water, the great beech woods intact. In the park wolves live, the `golden eagle, the hawk, wild boars and hares. MAIN EVENTS July / August Costacciaro - Photo country - International Festival of Photography Art: seminars, workshops and ex

Territory | Fossato di Vico - la città

L importance of military and economic position of Fossato di Vico along the Via Flaminia was at the origin of its primary development, but it was also the cause, after the fall of the Roman empire `, violent clashes between Goths and Byzantines (in this area finally defeated the Byzantines of the Goths Totila in 552 BC) and subsequent disputes and domination for as long as the Middle Ages. In the X century. Vico was the moat fief of the Counts of Nocera. In the twelfth century. passed to accounts Marsciano that, after the first subjected to Gubbio and Perugia, it finally sold to Gubbio. In the thirteenth century. After Perugia had regained the territory militarily, Fossato di Vico became a free municipality. In 1442 he managed to resist the assault troops of Francesco Sforza, but in 1500 Cesare Borgia, the son of the Pope, destroyed and plundered the country as well as later did the Duke of Urbino in 1517. In 1540 Fossato di Vico joined the State of the Church and, unless the Napoleoni

Territory | Gualdo Tadino - la città

Sovrastata from the imposing Rocca Flea, rebuilt and enlarged by Frederick II in 1242, rises Fyvie the foot of Mount Serrasanta and faces the consular Flaminia. The city still intact uses, customs and traditions of its past. Famous for its beautiful tiles to shine, Fyvie is the only place in Italy where you can still find pottery glazed in the third cooking with smoke broom in ancient kilns called "mittens" that curious tourists can admire the craft workshops. Through this technique produces wonderful ancient artefacts from a variety of forms, from typical embellished gold and ruby reflections and an iridescent absolutely original. Ancient and secret formulas handed down from generation to generation since the sixteenth century, make it possible, even today, the perpetuation of this fine art. The last weekend of September, the city gives life to the Porte de Games, a festive and spectacular tenzone late medieval, in which the four districts are courting the Palio di San Michele Arcang

Territory | Scheggia e Pascelupo - la città

Scheggia and Pascelupo rises in the border area between `Umbria and the Marche region in an important road junction of the Via Flaminia and places in favor of` herd sheep and cattle still present. The military and economic importance of his position was at the origin of its primary development, but it was also because, after the fall of the Roman empire `, violent clashes between Goths and Byzantines (VI sec.) And subsequent disputes between Gubbio, Perugia Montefeltro and the Church. The Church finally (from XV century.) Maintained its jurisdiction over the territory until Unit `d` Italy. In the territory of Scheggia, in the green of the Regional Park of Monte Cucco, passing the milestone of Italy Trail through all the Apennines. MAIN EVENTS April (last Sunday) - Loc. Calcara Ponte Feast of Our Lady of Good Counsel June (first or second Sunday) - Pascelupo of Scheggia - Spring Festival (typical meal in the countryside, hiking and walking in the woods at the Hermitage of Monte Cuc

Territory | Sigillo - la città

Sigillo is a place at the foot of Monte Cucco, and is home to the Regional Natural Park namesake. It was already inhabited by Umbrian came when the Romans who made their Hall Augustea Region VI. After the fall of `Roman Empire, the city was destroyed by Totila (552) and then rebuilt by the Lombards that included the Duchy of Spoleto.Per throughout the Middle Ward underwent various dominations, looting, destruction and reconstruction until the XV sec. joined the State of the Church in whose territories remained until the unit `d` Italy. Immersed in the green of the Regional Park of Monte Cucco is a reference point for practitioners of free flight (was home to the World Championship of Free Flight in 1999), for lovers of hiking and mountain biking and caving enthusiasts . MAIN EVENTS Holy Thursday representation of the Trial of Jesus Good Friday procession on Good Friday (the Dead Christ is carried in procession accompanied by historical costume and ancient religious songs) April

Territory | Valfabbrica - la città

Valfabbrica rises in the east of Perugia on the left side of the average Chiascio river valley along the highway from the plain of the Tiber leads to Fyvie. The first historical Valfabbrica to go back at the 820 and relate to the granting of privileges to the Benedictine monastery of Santa Maria in Vado Fabrica. During the Middle Ages the area was long disputed between the neighboring city of Perugia, Assisi and Gubbio. In the sixteenth century. finally came in the domains of the Church, under whose government unless the brackets Napoleonic remained until the constitution of the Kingdom d `Italy. The territory, at the center of the triangle-Perugia-Assisi Gubbio is presented as an oasis of rare natural beauty and is crossed by Franciscan reborn Path of Peace, the path from Assisi repeatedly brought to the Holy Gubbio. Even today in the woods and abbeys you can get closer to experience the mystical-religious lived by St. Francis. MAIN EVENTS Good Friday procession and Rievocazione w

Territory | GOLA DEL BOTTACCIONE ED ANTICO CONDOTTO

Vi you come from Metauro port, also known as St. Cross. This place has become famous as a result of studies of the Nobel Prize, Luis Alvarez, on `abundance of iridium in rocks Eugubine. However, this Gorge, located between the mountains and Ingino Foce, was already well known by tourists and scholars in different aspects: landscape, historical, architectural, geological, paleontological, and so on. Indeed in recent years on the rocky Gorge Bottaccione searches were carried out geological and paleontological very important. As in an open book, it reads the history of `evolution of the Earth. In a stratigraphic subdivision there are different forms of micro-fossils, giving valuable information to scholars of the distant past. From time is suggested by many l `development of a prehistoric and paleontological museum on site or nearby. "Bottaccione" is a name that derives from Bottaccio, reservoir. It is 120 meters long, 75 wide and 25 deep. It was built in the XIV century in order to

Territory | IL PARCO RANGHIASCI BRANCALEONI

Dall summer of 1996 was recovered and reopened to the public, the Park Ranghiasci Brancaleoni. This is a green oasis unique, situated on the slopes north of Mount Ingino. The area is bounded at the top of the walls Urbiche, which slopes gently up to the coast, for its entire length, Via della Cathedral. The main entrance is located in Gabrielli, next to Port Metauro, but you can access it from a side entrance place in the Cathedral, a few dozen meters from the Palazzo Ducale. The park was wanted and realized in the mid `800 of the Marchese Francesco Ranghiasci Brancaleoni, which at that time had just been appointed gonfalonier city of Gubbio (1842). The style realizzativo was under strong influence from the Anglo-Saxon culture, for the many suggestions put forward by the young English wife of the Marquis, Matilde Hobouse. The noblewoman fact, even for the park, wanted to recreate an environment very close to its traditions with the neoclassical buildings, placed in a suggestive wal

Territory | info Todi

Addossata a hill, crossed by narrow streets that run in an intricate ups and surrounded by ancient walls, is a true gem. Fulcrum of the site is the central Piazza del Popolo, point to retrace backwards the history of Todi. In this space overlooking the most important medieval residences, like the Palazzo del Popolo (or Common), considered one of the oldest public buildings d `Italy, and the Palazzo del Capitano built in 1293, which retains a beautiful gotica facade enriched a large staircase. Still d `footprint is the Gothic Palazzo dei Priori, became today seat of the court, which offers a course of the fourteenth century frescoes in the hall Audiences. Closes the square silhouette of the cathedral, high above a staircase in travertine. The church is characterized from the austere facade, animated by a central rose window and a door inlaid wood. Behind the Cathedral, you can admire a small courtyard in the remains of a domus of `Roman imperial era with a mosaic floor. In this regard,

Territory | info Amelia

Arroccata on a hill, boasts one of the most interesting historical centers of the region, whose architectural style is between Romanesque and Baroque. Entering from Porta Romana, l `main entrance of the walled city, after admiring the majestic walls polygonal dating to the third century BC There `s set out toward the center of the resort. Exceeded l `Arc Square, the medieval age, you arrive in Piazza Marconi, on top of` offshore. Among the attractions of this square, stand out the Loggia of the Auctioneer, with a small bell tower with a clock of the eighteenth century, and medieval palaces and Petrignani Nacci. The nearby Piazza Matteotti, built on a big tank Roman houses the Palazzo del Municipio. Restructured in the eighteenth century, shows a humble exterior as opposed to the richness of interior decoration. Do not miss an episode of the church of Sant `Agostino, built in the XIV century, which followed changes in the fifteenth and interior ornaments three centuries later. Over the

Territory | info Narni

Posizionata on top of a hill where you can enjoy an excellent view of the gorge of the Black, is a charming town d `medieval. The center consists of Garibaldi square, marked by medieval fountain and the side of the Cathedral of San Giovenale, Romanesque building of `XI-XII century whose facade, very simple, is coming from the nearby Piazza Cavour. The portico above a renaissance of late `400, under which are the largest portal in the Romanesque style and an arch of 1497. The interior of the church, four aisles (l `last was added in the fifteenth century) and polygonal apse, is richly frescoed. Taking off from Piazza Garibaldi del Duomo, you arrive in the magnificent Piazza dei Priori (where there is a bronze fountain of 1303), which overlook the Loggia dei Priori and, opposite, Palazzo del Podesta, divided into three buildings XIII Century and current seat of Comune.