Gubbio is a town and comune in the far northeastern part of the Italian province of Umbria. It is located on the lowest slope of Mt. Ingino, a small mountain of the Apennines. The city’s origins are very ancient. The hills above the town were already occupied in the Bronze Age. As Ikuvium, it was an important town of the Umbri in pre-Roman […]
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Perugia is located about 164 kilometres (102 miles) north of Rome and 148 km (92 miles) southeast of Florence. Perugia was an Umbrian settlement but first appears in written history as Perusia, one of the 12 confederate cities of Etruria In the Lombard period Perugia is spoken of as one of the principal cities of Tuscia. In the 9th century, with the consent of Charlemagne and Louis the Pious, it
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Spoleto is an ancient city in the Italian province of Perugia in east-central Umbria on a foothill of the Apennines. Located at the head of a large, broad valley, surrounded by mountains, Spoleto has long occupied a strategic geographical position. It appears to have been an important town to the original Umbri tribes, who built
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Assisi is a town in the Province of Perugia in the Umbria region, on the western flank of Monte Subasio. It is generally regarded as the birthplace of the Latin poet Propertius, born around 50–45 BC.It is the birthplace of St. Francis, who founded the Franciscan religious order in the town in 1208, and St.
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Orvieto – a major centre of Etruscan civilization Orvieto is a city and in the Province of Terni, southwestern Umbria, Italy situated on the flat summit of a large butte of volcanic tuff – the city rises above the almost-vertical faces of tuff cliffs that are completed by defensive walls built of the same stone.
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