🎨Borghi più belli d'Italia in Umbria

Norcia

Province: Perugia · 604 m

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Birthplace of San Benedetto at 604 meters on a Sibillini plateau, leveled by the 2016 earthquake and rebuilt stone by stone.

Trevi

Province: Perugia · 412 m

A walled town at 412 meters above the Spoleto valley, ringed by 200,000 olive trees that make it the Umbrian capital of olive oil.

Bevagna

Province: Perugia · 225 m

Roman Mevania on the Umbrian plain at 225 meters, four medieval quarters that compete every June in a reconstructed market of the 13th century.

Montefalco

Province: Perugia · 472 m

The hilltop wine capital of Umbria at 472 meters, where Sagrantino is grown almost nowhere else and Benozzo Gozzoli painted Francis in 1452.

Vallo di Nera

Province: Perugia · 467 m

Castle village of 345 people at 467 meters in the upper Valnerina, granted by Spoleto in 1217 and barely changed since.

Paciano

Province: Perugia · 391 m

Walled hill town of 957 people at 391 meters above Lake Trasimeno, three parallel streets, eight towers and three medieval gates intact.

Scheggino

Province: Perugia · 280 m

Triangular castle village on the banks of the Nera at 280 meters, where the first commercial Italian truffle company was founded in 1928.

Spello

Province: Perugia · 280 m

Augustan Hispellum at 280 meters on Monte Subasio, where streets carry flower petals each Corpus Domini and Pinturicchio frescoed the Baglioni Chapel in 1501.

Arrone

Province: Terni · 243 m

Medieval castle village on the left bank of the Nera at 243 meters, upstream from the largest man-made waterfall in the world.

Deruta

Province: Perugia · 218 m

A hill town at 218 meters on the left bank of the Tiber, the maiolica capital of central Italy since the late thirteenth century.

Giano dell'Umbria

Province: Perugia · 547 m

A hill commune at 547 meters between Foligno, Spoleto and Todi, anchored by a Romanesque abbey founded over the tomb of a fourth-century martyr.

Montecchio

Province: Terni · 377 m

A small hill commune at 377 meters above the Tiber, sitting on top of one of Umbria's largest Etruscan-tied necropolises.

Nocera Umbra

Province: Perugia · 520 m

A hill town at 520 meters on the Apennine slope, leveled by the 1997 earthquake and rebuilt, with mineral springs flowing since the sixteenth century.

Preci

Province: Perugia · 596 m

A walled Valnerina village at 596 meters that ran Europe's leading school of surgery for three centuries until the 2016 quake brought the borgo down.

Torgiano

Province: Perugia · 219 m

A walled river town at 219 meters at the confluence of the Tiber and the Chiascio, the first DOC and DOCG zone in Umbria.

Bettona

Province: Perugia · 353 m

A hill town at 353 meters between the Topino and Chiascio rivers, the only Etruscan settlement ever built east of the Tiber.

Citerna

Province: Perugia · 480 m

A medieval borgo at 480 meters above the upper Tiber valley, holding the only sculpture by Donatello in Umbria.

Corciano

Province: Perugia · 408 m

A walled medieval castello at 408 meters eight kilometers west of Perugia, where Saint Francis stopped on his way back from Isola Maggiore in 1223.

Lugnano in Teverina

Province: Terni · 441 m

A ridge town at 441 meters above the lower Tiber valley, with a 1230 Romanesque collegiata and a late-Roman infant cemetery on the hill below.

Monte Castello di Vibio

Province: Perugia · 422 m

A fifteenth-century walled village at 422 meters above the Tiber, home to the world's smallest all'italiana theatre with 99 seats.

Monteleone di Spoleto

Province: Perugia · 978 m

Where the 6th-century-BC Etruscan parade chariot now in the Met was found — a 555-resident Borghi più belli d'Italia borgo at 978m in the upper Nera valley, with a replica of the Monteleone Chariot (the original is in New York), the medieval Rocca dei Brancaleoni, and a stop on the Cammino di San Benedetto pilgrim route.

Montone

Province: Perugia · 482 m

A walled medieval hill town at 482 meters above the upper Tiber, birthplace of the condottiero Braccio Fortebracci.

Panicale

Province: Perugia · 431 m

A walled hill town at 431 meters on Monte Petrarvella, where a 1505 Perugino fresco covers the back wall of San Sebastiano.

Passignano sul Trasimeno

Province: Perugia · 289 m

A near-peninsula on the northern shore of Lake Trasimeno, on the road Hannibal closed when he ambushed the Romans in 217 BC.

San Gemini

Province: Terni · 337 m

A medieval borgo at 337 meters above the Via Flaminia, four kilometers below the ruins of Roman Carsulae.

Stroncone

Province: Terni · 451 m

A walled medieval borgo at 451 meters eight kilometers south of Terni, with a Franciscan convent traditionally founded by Francis himself in 1213.

Acquasparta

Province: Terni · 350 m

A hill town at 350 meters above the Naia valley, where Federico Cesi convened the first Accademia dei Lincei in his Palazzo Cesi in 1603.

Allerona

Province: Terni · 472 m

A stone borgo at 472 meters between the Paglia valley and the Valdichiana, an Orvieto outpost whose Monaldeschi castle fell to Charles V.

Castiglione del Lago

Province: Perugia · 304 m

Trasimeno's western promontory, once the lake's fourth island, fortified by Federico II in 1247 and frescoed by Pomarancio for the Corgna marquises.

Massa Martana

Province: Perugia · 351 m

Umbria's Via Flaminia BPB — a 3,613-resident borgo on the original Roman consular road between Rome and Rimini, with the intact 9th-c Abbazia dei Santi Fidenzio e Terenzio above town, a network of Roman-era catacombe Cristiane (Catacombe di Villa San Faustino, the only ones in Umbria), and the Borghi più belli inscription restored after the 1997 Marche-Umbria earthquake.

Sellano

Province: Perugia · 641 m

A medieval village in the upper Valnerina at 641 meters, twice flattened by earthquakes, now linked to Montesanto by Europe's highest pedestrian suspension bridge.