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Alternatives to Assisi: every hill town in Umbria, in one list

39 towns · 1 region · the complete list

Assisi is a pilgrimage and behaves like one. The same ridge of Umbria has Spello, Trevi and Montefalco within twenty minutes, each with a basilica and a view and a car park you can find a space in, and the whole region is small towns of this kind stacked up the sides of one valley after another.

This is every Umbrian hill town in our catalogue, 39 of them, with Assisi and Orvieto removed. Ordered by outside recognition.

39 towns

Norcia
Province: Perugia · 604 m
1h 33m from Assisi by car
Birthplace of San Benedetto at 604 meters on a Sibillini plateau, leveled by the 2016 earthquake and rebuilt stone by stone.
Montefalco
Province: Perugia · 472 m
38m from Assisi by car
The hilltop wine capital of Umbria at 472 meters, where Sagrantino is grown almost nowhere else.
Trevi
Province: Perugia · 412 m
32m from Assisi by car
A walled town at 412 meters above the Spoleto valley, ringed by 200,000 olive trees that make it the Umbrian capital of olive oil.
Nocera Umbra
Province: Perugia · 520 m
42m from Assisi by car
A hill town at 520 meters on the Apennine slope, leveled by the 1997 earthquake and rebuilt, with mineral springs flowing since the sixteenth century.
Spello
Province: Perugia · 280 m
18m from Assisi by car
Augustan Hispellum sits at 280 meters on Monte Subasio, its Roman gates still standing over streets that Pinturicchio once painted a chapel for.
Vallo di Nera
Province: Perugia · 467 m
54m from Assisi by car
Castle village of 345 people at 467 meters in the upper Valnerina, granted by Spoleto in 1217 and barely changed since.
Panicale
Province: Perugia · 431 m
1h 8m from Assisi by car
A walled hill town at 431 meters on Monte Petrarvella, where a 1505 Perugino fresco covers the back wall of San Sebastiano.
Montone
Province: Perugia · 482 m
56m from Assisi by car
A walled medieval hill town at 482 meters above the upper Tiber, birthplace of the condottiero Braccio Fortebracci.
Bevagna
Province: Perugia · 225 m
28m from Assisi by car
Roman Mevania on the Umbrian plain at 225 meters, four medieval quarters that compete every June in a reconstructed market of the 13th century.
Paciano
Province: Perugia · 391 m
1h 4m from Assisi by car
Walled hill town of 957 people at 391 meters above the lake, three parallel streets, eight towers and three medieval gates intact.

The rest of the 39

11.Scheggino1h 2m from Assisi by car · PERUGIA
12.Monte Castello di Vibio1h 2m from Assisi by car · PERUGIA
13.Arrone1h 26m from Assisi by car · TERNI
14.Lugnano in Teverina1h 40m from Assisi by car · TERNI
15.Città della Pieve1h 7m from Assisi by car · PERUGIA
16.Deruta32m from Assisi by car · PERUGIA
17.Spoleto52m from Assisi by car · PERUGIA
18.Corciano38m from Assisi by car · PERUGIA

Norcia

Montefalco

Trevi

Nocera Umbra

Spello

Vallo di Nera

Panicale

Montone

Bevagna

Paciano

The rest of the 39

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