Alternatives to
Alternatives to Assisi: every hill town in Umbria, in one list
39 towns · 1 region · the complete list
Norcia, Umbria
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.
Instead of Assisi
Assisi · 27,605 residents · Umbria
- NorciaPerugia
Hill town · Borghi più belli d'Italia
- From Assisi
- 1h 33m by car
- Residents
- 4,544
- When to go
- Apr–Oct
- MontefalcoPerugia
Hill town · Borghi più belli d'Italia
- From Assisi
- 38m by car
- Residents
- 5,357
- When to go
- Apr–Oct
- TreviPerugia
Hill town · Borghi più belli d'Italia
- From Assisi
- 32m by car
- By train
- Reachable
- Residents
- 8,063
- When to go
- Apr–Oct
- Nocera UmbraPerugia
Hill town · Borghi più belli d'Italia
- From Assisi
- 42m by car
- By train
- Reachable
- Residents
- 5,511
- When to go
- Apr–Oct
- SpelloPerugia
Hill town · Borghi più belli d'Italia
- From Assisi
- 18m by car
- By train
- Reachable
- Residents
- 8,264
- When to go
- Apr–Oct
The 5 best-recognised of the 39 towns that match. Drive times measured by road from Assisi. More of them follow below.
Norcia
Province: Perugia · 604 m
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
The hilltop wine capital of Umbria at 472 meters, where Sagrantino is grown almost nowhere else.
Trevi
Province: Perugia · 412 m
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
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
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
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
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
A walled medieval hill town at 482 meters above the upper Tiber, birthplace of the condottiero Braccio Fortebracci.
Bevagna
Province: Perugia · 225 m
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
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
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- 19.Bettona
- 20.Montecchio
- 21.Campello sul Clitunno
- 22.Stroncone
- 23.Torgiano
- 24.Citerna
- 25.San Gemini
- 26.Allerona
- 27.Giano dell'Umbria
- 28.Massa Martana
- 29.Acquasparta
- 30.Todi
- 31.Gubbio
- 32.Foligno
- 33.Fossato di Vico
- 34.Magione
- 35.Amelia
- 36.Pietralunga
- 37.Città di Castello
- 38.Monte Santa Maria Tiberina
- 39.Narni
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