Umbrien liegt im Zentrum Italiens, dort, wo die Wiege der Zivilisation des Mittelalters und der Renaissance einst beheimatet war. Die bekanntesten Kunststädte in der Nähe sind: Florenz, Siena, Assisi, Gubbio, Arezzo, Todi, Montepulciano, Perugia.


Gubbio

Situated in the Umbrian countryside, on the border between Tuscany and Lazio, 96 km from Gubbio, Umbria Resort SPA is the perfect place to enjoy a really relaxing holiday in close contact with nature. The city of Gubbio is linked to St. Francis history, especially at an event in his life mentioned in Chapter XXI of the Little Flowers of St. Francis, that the encounter with the wolf. This is where...

Assisi

She is known for being the city where they were born, lived and died in St. Francis, patron saint of Italy, and St. Clare. The origins of Assisi, as with other cities' in Umbria, are uncertain. Was inhabited, originally, from a population, the Umbrians, settled in central Italy. Subsequently resent Etruscan and Roman influence, what it' well documented by many vestiges of the Roman "municipium" c...

Montepulciano

The town has characteristics of medieval village in the shape of "S" and is enclosed within three rings of walls, all built to the fourteenth century. Of Etruscan origin and founded, according to legend by Porsenna, Lucumone from Chiusi; some documents found in the Fortress, dates the existence already in IV-III century BC. In Roman times it was the seat of an army built to defend the consular ro...

Siena

The city is universally known for its enormous historic, artistic, landscape and its substantial stylistic unity of the urban medieval, as well as for the famous Palio. For these merits, in 1995 its historic center was awarded by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site. In the city the seat of the Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena, founded in 1472 and therefore the oldest bank in business as well as the lo...

Perugia

Perugia is an art city, rich in history and monuments, founded by the Etruscans, is cultural center of the region, a tourist destination and university. The name "Perugia" is almost certainly of Etruscan origin and is made by the Romans as "Perusia". The oldest record of the name seems to be a pillar of the seventh century Etruscan. BC. found in Vetulonia, dedicated to the warrior “Irumina ...

Orvieto

Orvieto stands on a tuff overlooking the valley of the river Paglia, right tributary of the Tiber, and just below the city receives from the left Chiani, Chiana Romana from the Valdichiana. This enormous mesa tufa, which rises from twenty to fifty meters from the level of the campaign, is due to the collapse of ground Sourge (clouds and glowing avalanches) by Quaternary volcanoes system Volsinio, ...