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Inland Umbria and its Tuscan and Marchigian borders keep a summer calendar of crossbow contests, torchlit processions and quarter-against-quarter races, staged in stone hill towns built of local travertine and pale brick. Within an easy drive of Perugia, these are the smaller places where the medieval calendar is still run by the people who live there.