Guide · Italy

Umbria and the Marche

Connect Assisi, Perugia, Orvieto and Spoleto with Urbino’s Renaissance palace and a final underground day at the Frasassi Caves.

6 days6 stopsModerate pace

The trip, in order

Follow the route day by day. Times and prices can change, so check official information before you travel.

Day 1

Franciscan Assisi

Assisi

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    Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi

    Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi is a major religious monument in Assisi, valued for its architecture, art and place in the city’s historical development. Construction began soon after the death and canonisation of Francis of Assisi in the thirteenth century, creating upper and lower churches decorated by major medieval painters.

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    60 minutes suggested
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Day 2

Civic Umbria

Perugia

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    Piazza IV Novembre

    Piazza IV Novembre is a landmark in Perugia that forms a recognisable part of the city’s public space, architecture and historical identity. The landmark forms part of the long development of Perugia’s public realm.

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    60 minutes suggested
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Day 3

Cathedral city

Orvieto

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    Orvieto Cathedral

    Orvieto Cathedral is a major religious monument in Orvieto, valued for its architecture, art and place in the city’s historical development. Construction began in 1290; the cathedral’s long building history produced a richly decorated Gothic façade and major interior cycles.

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    60 minutes suggested
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Day 4

Fortified hill town

Spoleto

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    Rocca Albornoziana

    Rocca Albornoziana is a fourteenth-century papal fortress dominating Spoleto from Sant’Elia hill, organised around two courtyards and a strong perimeter of towers. Its elevated position also gives a clear view of the town and the route towards the Ponte delle Torri.

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    90 minutes suggested
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Day 5

Renaissance court

Urbino

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    Ducal Palace of Urbino

    Ducal Palace of Urbino is a historic architectural complex in Urbino, associated with political, aristocratic or imperial power and later public use. The palace was transformed in the fifteenth century for Federico da Montefeltro and became one of the defining architectural courts of the Italian Renaissance.

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    90 minutes suggested
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Day 6

Frasassi caves

Genga

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    Frasassi Caves

    Frasassi Caves is a major natural or cultural landscape around Genga, combining distinctive terrain with long-established patterns of settlement, farming, walking or recreation. The present landscape around Genga is the result of long geological and environmental processes, later shaped in places by farming, settlement, transport and recreation.

    Duration
    180 minutes suggested
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