Walking to know and enjoy

Tourism is like a cup of tea...

it's how you make it.

 

 

 

 

Walking...

...between Umbria and Tuscany

... and farther

 

 

Seven days by foot

between Tuscany and Umbria

When the beauty has thousands years

Olive groves, hamlets and a little paradise

   A feature of Umbria - the "green hearth" of Italy - is that you can walk on the border between nature and history without jumps. They link arms each other.

   You can feel this experience starting from Trevi, a beautiful medieval village over Umbra Valley, one of "Borghi più Belli d'Italia" (Most beautiful hamlets of Italy)...

...A pleasant track among olive threes leads you, suddenly, to see the polygonal tower of another well restored fortifieded hamlet: Pissignano. Enter in it means enter by a time-gate in the XII century.

But Pissignano, in Umbria, isn't alone... Going beyond a dale and a ridge, and here is Campello Castle: a typical hill-castle (while Pissignano is a slope-castle).

Do you think are you getting tired? Don't worry! Few minutes downhill and...

We are at Clitunno Sources, a little paradise of peace and serenity.

Virgilio, Plinio the Young, Svetonio, Properzio - about the Roman age - and Lord Byron, Giosuè Carducci and many painters in the last centuries sang the beauty of this place with words and drawings.

   A last testimony of nature and history wait us going back to Trevi. Here you can see the Saint Emiliano's Olive Three, where the patron of Trevi was martirized. It's... 1700 years old!!!

Did you have a nice walk? Yes, I know... This is Umbria!



The breath of St. Francis...

Seven days from La Verna to Assisi

Flush

The earth and the sky...

...The beloved's look brings a blush to beloved's face.

(Poreta, between Trevi and Spoleto, Umbria, Italy)

Montelabate Abbey

When history is art

 

In Umbria, between Perugia and Gubbio, you may have the pleasure to take a walk in the history.

A short walk - just only three hours long - but a long trip in the last thousand-odd years.

It's the Montelabate Ring.

This will be your welcome: the old big Benedictine abbey.

Now it's private, but you can visit it on request, and you won't regret it!

Our trip begin below the abbey and suddenly, after few minutes, you can see on the left of the path the ancient gate of a castle.

It's the main entrance of Montelabate Castle; the ruins can only suggest its size and glory. You need many minutes to visit it all.



 Not far from it, about one hour, on the top of a hill, you can see also the few remains of another castle. It's name is Castiglion Fidatto. The original name was: "Castiglione dei figli di Atto" (Castle of Atto's sons). Now there are only two walls of the old chapel; the reason that make us sure about it is the window oriented to the Est.



An then the Abbey: one of the most beautiful example of Romanesque in Umbria. The cloister is a "little" jowel: no two columns are alike.





Montelabate Abbey, in Umbria...





...the Green Heart of Italy