Certamente, the Church of San Fortunato is to be celebrated – and not only on October 14th. the Festa di San Fortunato, patron saint of Todi. His church looks out from the highest point in Todi. The foundation stone was laid in the late 13th-century and construction started on the church under after the demolition…
Bordering a Todi hill side, Santa Maria della Consolazione rises like a veritable temple, “perhaps the most limpid of all classical architecture that has been built in Italy”:And like most temples, Santa Maria della Consolazione was constructed to house a venerated image. According to legend, in the early 16th-century when a pair local stonemasons were…
Perched on a double-crested hill overlooking the Tiber River, Umbria hill town Todi – “the world’s most livable city” – commands distant views in every direction. Its “livable” appellation was attached to the town by the Italian press following a 1990 analysis by University of Kentucky professor and environmental architect Richard Levine. Most tuderti would certainly agree…
Certainly the highlight of a vist to Montefalco’s 14th-century Church of San Francesco will be the splendid mid-15th-century fresco cycle of the life of St. Francis by esteemed Florentine painter, Benozzo Gozzoli, in the apse. But the Franciscan church – now il Museo di San Francesco – houses many wonders. As in countless churches of ancient…
I’d last been to the buonissimo Montefalco ristorante, La Locanda del Teatro, a few years ago; at that time, housed in the Palazzo Bontadossi flanking Palazzo Comunale (City Hall) on the town’s main piazza………..and taking its name, “Inn of the Theater,” from its location next door to the Montefalco teatro, Teatro Filippo Neri. On a recent visit to Montefalco…