Day trips
Day trips from Perugia
44 towns within 90 minutes
Closest first. Corciano is 16 minutes out. Drive times are computed on real roads, so they are a fair estimate rather than a promise about traffic.
The towns
Corciano
Province: Perugia · 408 m
16 minutes from Perugia. A walled medieval castello at 408 meters eight kilometers west of Perugia, where, by tradition, Saint Francis stopped on his way back from a Lent spent fasting on Isola Maggiore.
Deruta
Province: Perugia · 218 m
17 minutes from Perugia. A hill town at 218 meters on the left bank of the Tiber, the maiolica capital of central Italy since the late thirteenth century.
- Written about. No. 60.
Magione
Province: Perugia · 299 m
20 minutes from Perugia. A hill town east of Trasimeno built around a medieval Order's fortified base.
- Written about. No. 89.
Torgiano
Province: Perugia · 219 m
23 minutes from Perugia. A walled river town at 219 meters at the confluence of the Tiber and the Chiascio, the first DOC and DOCG zone in Umbria.
- Written about. No. 76.
Bettona
Province: Perugia · 353 m
25 minutes from Perugia. A hill town at 353 meters between the Topino and Chiascio rivers, the only Etruscan settlement ever built east of the Tiber.
- Written about. No. 61.
Passignano sul Trasimeno
Province: Perugia · 289 m
25 minutes from Perugia. A near-peninsula on the northern shore of Lake Trasimeno, on the road Hannibal closed when he ambushed the Romans in 217 BC.
Spello
Province: Perugia · 280 m
31 minutes from Perugia. Augustan Hispellum sits at 280 meters on Monte Subasio, its Roman gates still standing over streets that Pinturicchio once painted a chapel for.
- Written about. No. 62.
Assisi
Province: Perugia · 424 m
33 minutes from Perugia. A pink limestone town at 424 meters on the western flank of a mountain above the plain, the birthplace of Francis and a UNESCO site since 2000.
Bevagna
Province: Perugia · 225 m
37 minutes from Perugia. Roman Mevania on the Umbrian plain at 225 meters, four medieval quarters that compete every June in a reconstructed market of the 13th century.
- Written about. No. 72.
Todi
Province: Perugia · 398 m
38 minutes from Perugia. A walled hill town at 398 meters on the Tiber, with Etruscan, Roman, and medieval rings stacked one above the other.
- Written about. No. 79.
Foligno
Province: Perugia · 235 m
40 minutes from Perugia. A valley town at 235 meters on the Topino, where Dante's Divine Comedy was first printed in 1472.
- Written about. No. 84.
Paciano
Province: Perugia · 391 m
41 minutes from Perugia. Walled hill town of 937 people at 391 meters above the lake, three parallel streets, eight towers and three medieval gates intact.
Montone
Province: Perugia · 482 m
42 minutes from Perugia. A walled medieval hill town at 482 meters above the upper Tiber, birthplace of the condottiero Braccio Fortebracci.
- Written about. No. 78.
Città della Pieve
Province: Perugia · 508 m
45 minutes from Perugia. A red-brick hill town at 508 meters above the Valdichiana, the birthplace of Perugino and the home of one of Italy's narrowest alleys.
Fossato di Vico
Province: Perugia · 581 m
45 minutes from Perugia. A medieval village on Mount Mutali at 581 meters, where the Via Flaminia's Roman waystation Hellvillum became a tenth-century castle still threaded by covered alleyways.
- Written about. No. 85.
Panicale
Province: Perugia · 431 m
45 minutes from Perugia. A walled hill town at 431 meters on Monte Petrarvella, where a 1505 Perugino fresco covers the back wall of San Sebastiano.
- Written about. No. 90.
Trevi
Province: Perugia · 412 m
45 minutes from Perugia. 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.
Città di Castello
Province: Perugia · 288 m
46 minutes from Perugia. A walled town of 38,000 in the upper Tiber valley where Raphael painted his first independent commissions and the white truffle season is the year's headline food event.
- Written about. No. 91.
Gubbio
Province: Perugia · 522 m
46 minutes from Perugia. Pre-Roman Ikuvium of the Umbri, where seven bronze tablets carry the longest text of the Umbrian language.
- Written about. No. 73.
Acquasparta
Province: Terni · 350 m
48 minutes from Perugia. A hill town at 350 meters above the Naia valley, where a Renaissance duchy briefly became the seat of Europe's first scientific academy.
Monte Castello di Vibio
Province: Perugia · 422 m
48 minutes from Perugia. A fifteenth-century walled village at 422 meters above the Tiber, home to the world's smallest all'italiana theater with 99 seats.
- Written about. No. 77.
Campello sul Clitunno
Province: Perugia · 290 m
49 minutes from Perugia. Springs of the Clitunno and the Lombard Tempietto on the valley floor at 290 meters, the temple inscribed by UNESCO in 2011.
- Written about. No. 59.
Castiglione del Lago
Province: Perugia · 304 m
50 minutes from Perugia. Trasimeno's western promontory, once the lake's fourth island, fortified in 1247 and later frescoed for a marquis of Corgna.
- Written about. No. 81.
Montefalco
Province: Perugia · 472 m
51 minutes from Perugia. The hilltop wine capital of Umbria at 472 meters, where Sagrantino is grown almost nowhere else.
Massa Martana
Province: Perugia · 351 m
52 minutes from Perugia. One of the Borghi più belli d'Italia on the Via Flaminia, a 3,577-resident borgo on the original Roman consular road between Rome and Rimini, with the intact 9th-c Abbazia dei Santi Fidenzio e Terenzio above town, a network of Roman-era catacombe Cristiane (Catacombe di Villa San Faustino, the only ones in Umbria), and the Borghi più belli inscription restored after the 1997 Marche-Umbria earthquake.
Nocera Umbra
Province: Perugia · 520 m
54 minutes from Perugia. 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.
Giano dell'Umbria
Province: Perugia · 547 m
57 minutes from Perugia. A hill commune between Foligno, Spoleto and Todi, anchored by a Romanesque abbey built over the tomb of a fourth-century martyr.
San Gemini
Province: Terni · 337 m
57 minutes from Perugia. A medieval borgo at 337 meters above ancient Roman paving, four kilometers below the ruins of Carsulae.
Pietralunga
Province: Perugia · 566 m
60 minutes from Perugia. A pre-Apennine hill town at 566 meters on the northeast Tiber ridge, ringed by truffle woods and white-potato fields.
Citerna
Province: Perugia · 480 m
63 minutes from Perugia. A medieval borgo at 480 meters above the upper Tiber valley, holding the only sculpture by Donatello in Umbria.
- Written about. No. 87.
Spoleto
Province: Perugia · 396 m
63 minutes from Perugia. Lombard ducal capital at 396 meters under the Rocca Albornoziana, where a 230-meter aqueduct bridge crosses to Monteluco and Menotti founded the Festival in 1958.
Sellano
Province: Perugia · 641 m
64 minutes from Perugia. A medieval village in the upper Valnerina at 641 meters, twice flattened by earthquakes, now linked to Montesanto by Europe's highest pedestrian suspension bridge.
Vallo di Nera
Province: Perugia · 467 m
65 minutes from Perugia. Castle village of 334 people at 467 meters in the upper Valnerina, granted by Spoleto in 1217 and barely changed since.
- Written about. No. 88.
Terni
Province: Terni · 130 m
67 minutes from Perugia. Umbria's second city, rebuilt around its steelworks, home of Saint Valentine and seven kilometers from the Cascata delle Marmore.
- Written about. No. 82.
Narni
Province: Terni · 240 m
68 minutes from Perugia. Narni is a hilltop town on a travertine outcrop above the Nera valley whose Latin name, Narnia, gave C.S. Lewis a word for a fictional kingdom he never set foot in.
- Written about. No. 80.
Montecchio
Province: Terni · 377 m
72 minutes from Perugia. A small hill commune at 377 meters above the Tiber, sitting on top of one of Umbria's largest Etruscan-tied necropolises.
- Written about. No. 83.
Orvieto
Province: Terni · 325 m
74 minutes from Perugia. Etruscan Velzna on a 325-meter tufa butte, later a medieval refuge of popes.
- Written about. No. 86.
Scheggino
Province: Perugia · 280 m
74 minutes from Perugia. Triangular castle village on the banks of the Nera at 280 meters, where the first commercial Italian truffle company was founded in 1852.
Monte Santa Maria Tiberina
Province: Perugia · 688 m
76 minutes from Perugia. An imperial-fief borgo at 688 meters, held by the Bourbon del Monte marquises from 1250 to 1815.
- Written about. No. 74.
Allerona
Province: Terni · 472 m
81 minutes from Perugia. A stone borgo at 472 meters between the Paglia valley and the Valdichiana, an Orvieto outpost whose Monaldeschi castle fell to Charles V.
Stroncone
Province: Terni · 451 m
81 minutes from Perugia. A walled medieval borgo at 451 meters eight kilometers south of Terni, with a Franciscan convent traditionally founded by Francis himself in 1213.
- Written about. No. 75.
Amelia
Province: Terni · 406 m
85 minutes from Perugia. A pre-Roman hilltown ringed by polygonal walls, with ten barrel-vaulted Roman cisterns beneath its main square.
Lugnano in Teverina
Province: Terni · 441 m
86 minutes from Perugia. A ridge town at 441 meters above the lower Tiber valley, with a 1230 Romanesque collegiata and a late-Roman infant cemetery on the hill below.
Monteleone di Spoleto
Province: Perugia · 978 m
90 minutes from Perugia. A 539-resident hilltop borgo at 978m in the upper Nera valley, ranked among the Borghi più belli d'Italia, with a medieval castle for a skyline and a pilgrim route running through it.
From elsewhere in Italy
Five more towns
Siracusa
Province: Siracusa
Ortigia island, wrapped in honey-coloured Baroque stone, sits at the heart of the city Cicero called the most beautiful in the world, on the eastern Sicilian coast south of Catania.
Borgio Verezzi
Province: Savona
Two villages joined under one comune in 1933: Borgio on the coast below, Verezzi on the pink-stone hill above.
Orvieto
Province: Terni
Etruscan Velzna on a 325-meter tufa butte, later a medieval refuge of popes.
Balsorano
Province: L'Aquila
A pentagonal fortress above the Liri river that became a backdrop for 1970s Italian horror cinema.
Collecchio
Province: Parma
A Parma-cintura town on the Via Francigena, known today for a dairy multinational's headquarters and a football club's training ground.