The Marches region borders our Umbria on the eastern side and one early summer day, Pino and I headed there to Amandola where he was to view a prospective job site. (Photo below: Mongolo1984) I explored this small marchigiano hill town during Pino’s appointment. Around lunchtime, we headed to Sarnano, the rolling foothills of the…
Called “Hispellum” by the Romans, majestic Umbrian hill town Spello perches on the lower slopes of Mt. Subasio…. …surveying below the Valle Umbra Nord. 500 square meters of the mosaic floor of a Roman villa – discovered in 2006 – now draws visitors to Spello all year long. And every year on the Feast of…
As we headed from Amandola to Sarnano in the Marches region, rolling wooded landscapes blanketed the surrounding hills: the foothills of the Sybilline mountains: Coming around a curve, the sign in front of a large stuccoed yellow building on the left, caught my eye: “Salumi Monterotti” I knew the area was famous for salami, prosciutti,…
One of the “undiscovered” medieval hill town gems of Umbria is certainly Gubbio. Not on any railroad line, the winding medieval backstreets of Gubbio are thronged once a year: on May 15th, for the Festa dei Ceri. But all was quiet in Gubbio late May as my tour guests, Beth and Tim, and I headed…
In the flowering backstreets of Assisi,…. ……friends and neighbors of all ages gathered on a mid-June afternoon to chat over boxes of flower petals as busy hands swiftly de-petaled flowers of myriads of colors. This was the afternoon of the Feast of Corpus Domini (60 days after Easter) and the locals were preparing Infiorate (literally, the…