Fossato di Vico

Fossato di Vico stands at 581 meters on the slopes of Mount Mutali, on the line of the Via Flaminia between Foligno and Gubbio. The Romans built a changing station here called Hellvillum after laying the road in 220 BC. The borgo proper was founded in 980 by Lupo, called Vico, son of Monaldo, count of Nocera.

In the twelfth century it passed to the Marsciano counts, who eventually sold it to Gubbio; in the thirteenth Perugia took it militarily and the commune declared independence. What survives from that period is the network of covered passages called Le Rughe, stone vaults that turned the street into a defensible interior, a rare example of thirteenth-century castle architecture used as everyday infrastructure. The church of San Pietro, the oldest in town, predates the castle and was founded as a Camaldolese monastery. The Chiesa di San Benedetto outside the walls keeps Eugubine-school frescoes including what is taken to be one of the earliest known portraits of a pope.

From Ancona / Pescara (AOI), about 1 hour by car.

Rimini (RMI) is about 2h 8m away.

By car from the centre of Perugia 45 minutes or Ancona 1h 13m.

There is a railway station in the comune, so you can arrive without a car.

Coming from Florence?

Coming by train into Perugia? Fossato di Vico is about 44 minutes away by road.

Every town within reach of Ancona / Pescara airport.