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Umbria

Provinces

Perugia,  Terni,  

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Aeroporto di Perugia Sant'Egidio e Aeroporto di Foligno
Capital: Perugia
92 Italian Cities
2 Province
Area: 8.456 Kmq.
Population: 906.486 ab.

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Umbria - Guide to the Region


 Useful information and travel guide Umbria: All cities and towns.

In Umbria, you learn to know the meaning of beauty. It is the heart of Italy, not only for the geographical position: its wealth of natural wonders and artists seem inexhaustible. Venture for its streets is a journey full of surprises, constantly suspended between the signs of a past guarded with care and a whole new vocation in the future that has awakened from a slumber that lasted Umbria centuries (from the Renaissance onwards, at least) bringing to light an area alive and beautiful. Today Umbria, reinventatasi worldly but without overdoing it, the traveler can offer any form of welfare and stimuli from sports to culture, from museums to food, water to the great musical events of international appeal.
Why Umbria is the land of balance, able to reconstruct in a fresco unitary multi-faceted and a thousand different souls.
Blends man and nature, spirituality and intense pride layman. Immersed in an atmosphere of palpable harmony, every piece of land and every town have their own unique identity, the result of millennia of civilization have left everywhere dense layers of memories and timeless masterpieces: Umbria, the Etruscans and Romans before, the extraordinary - and in many ways revolutionary - season of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance onwards. In parallel, the farmer has talent patiently chiseled environment, reclaiming, digging and planting olive trees and vineyards, wines and oils in addition to giving great value have become the very symbol of this land. Dotted with medieval villages and hermitages silent, the hills of Umbria have little to envy to other areas perhaps best known.
But in Umbria just go a few miles to discover a wild nature, made of beech trees, deep caves and mountains populated by ancient legends. Umbria is also rich in water emerges in springs and mountain lakes, flowing rivers dug impressive canyons of stone grows in swamps and reservoirs, which here is magically transformed into natural oasis. Lake Trasimeno, the slow flow of the Tiber and the jump of the waterfall Marmore seem to be created on purpose to inspire poets and painters.
At the end of the trip is confirmed by the certainty: Umbria, for beauty, has a true vocation.


Umbria Provinces and municipalities

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