Cammino di San Francesco
Cammino di San Francesco in Umbria
12 towns
Umbria has 12 Cammino di San Francesco communes in our index. They cluster in the Perugia and Terni provinces.
The three most recognised in our catalogue are Trevi, Spoleto, and Gubbio. 9 more towns carry the mark alongside them.
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.
Spoleto
Province: Perugia · 396 m
Lombard ducal capital at 396 meters under the Rocca Albornoziana, where a 230-meter aqueduct bridge crosses to Monteluco and Menotti founded the Festival in 1958.
Gubbio
Province: Perugia · 522 m
Pre-Roman Ikuvium of the Umbri at the foot of Monte Ingino, where seven bronze tablets carry the longest text of the Umbrian language.
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.
Città di Castello
Province: Perugia · 288 m
The upper Tiber valley's Renaissance + 20th-c art capital — 38,000-resident walled town in the Alta Valtiberina where Raphael painted his first independent commissions, where Alberto Burri (1915-95) founded the Fondazione that now occupies the 14th-c Ex Seccatoi del Tabacco + the Palazzo Albizzini, and where the white truffle season + the Mostra del Tartufo in November are the year's headline food event.
Foligno
Province: Perugia · 235 m
A valley town at 235 meters on the Topino, where Dante's Divine Comedy was first printed in 1472.
Pietralunga
Province: Perugia · 566 m
A pre-Apennine hill town at 566 meters on the northeast Tiber ridge, ringed by truffle woods and white-potato fields.
Assisi
Province: Perugia · 424 m
A pink limestone town at 424 meters on the western flank of Monte Subasio, the birthplace of Francis and a UNESCO site since 2000.
Citerna
Province: Perugia · 480 m
A medieval borgo at 480 meters above the upper Tiber valley, holding the only sculpture by Donatello in Umbria.
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.
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