🐌Cittaslow 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.

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.

Orvieto

Province: Terni · 325 m

Etruscan Velzna on a 325-meter tufa butte, the medieval refuge of popes and the home of Italy's most decorated Gothic cathedral.

Città della Pieve

Province: Perugia · 508 m

A red-brick hill town at 508 meters above the Valdichiana, the birthplace of Perugino and the home of Italy's narrowest alley.

Todi

Province: Perugia · 398 m

A walled hill town at 398 meters on the Tiber, with Etruscan, Roman, and medieval rings stacked up Colle Nidoli.

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.

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.

Amelia

Province: Terni · 406 m

A pre-Roman hilltown at 406 meters ringed by polygonal walls of the fourth century BC, with ten barrel-vaulted Roman cisterns under the main square.