Giano dell'Umbria

Giano dell'Umbria sits at 547 meters on the eastern slope of the Monti Martani, inside the triangle between Foligno, Spoleto and Todi. The territory is full of small medieval castles, Montecchio and Morcicchia the most intact, and small Romanesque churches scattered between olive groves. The Abbazia di San Felice, just outside the walls of the capoluogo, occupies a fourth-century oratory built over the tomb of the martyred bishop Felice; the current church and monastery date from the early twelfth century, set above a remarkable Romanesque crypt.

The Roman Villa Rufione along the Via Flaminia Vetus produced the artifacts now in the Antiquarium of Montecchio. The town is the seat of the DOC Spoleto wine and the Trebbiano Spoletino reborn here in the last decade, and the olive groves around Bastardo feed the Frantoi Aperti weekends every November.