Instead of Spoleto
Instead of Spoleto: hill towns within 90 minutes
Spoleto has a festival in summer that fills every bed for a fortnight and a bridge that fills the rest of the year.
The Valnerina below it and the hills toward Norcia are the quiet half of the same province.
Hill towns in our catalogue within 90 minutes of Spoleto by road, ranked by outside recognition. Spoleto itself and the other famous places are left out. 44 towns match; the 12 best-recognised are below.
Instead of Spoleto
Spoleto · 36,271 residents · Umbria
- NorciaPerugia
Hill town · Borghi più belli d'Italia
- From Spoleto
- 1h 3m by car
- Residents
- 4,544
- When to go
- Apr–Oct
- TreviPerugia
Hill town · Borghi più belli d'Italia
- From Spoleto
- 25m by car
- By train
- Reachable
- Residents
- 8,063
- When to go
- Apr–Oct
- MontefalcoPerugia
Hill town · Borghi più belli d'Italia
- From Spoleto
- 32m by car
- Residents
- 5,357
- When to go
- Apr–Oct
- Nocera UmbraPerugia
Hill town · Borghi più belli d'Italia
- From Spoleto
- 54m by car
- By train
- Reachable
- Residents
- 5,511
- When to go
- Apr–Oct
- SpelloPerugia
Hill town · Borghi più belli d'Italia
- From Spoleto
- 41m by car
- By train
- Reachable
- Residents
- 8,264
- When to go
- Apr–Oct
The 5 best-recognised of the 44 towns that match. Drive times measured by road from Spoleto. 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.
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.
Montefalco
Province: Perugia · 472 m
The hilltop wine capital of Umbria at 472 meters, where Sagrantino is grown almost nowhere else.
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.
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.
Sarnano
Province: Macerata · 539 m
A 539-meter medieval borgo of baked brick at the foot of the Sibillini, with thermal springs that ran for 84 years until the 2016 earthquake.
Vitorchiano
Province: Viterbo · 285 m
A peperino borgo built on a single volcanic boulder near Viterbo.
Scheggino
Province: Perugia · 280 m
Triangular castle village on the banks of the Nera at 280 meters, where the first commercial Italian truffle company was founded in 1928.
Monte Castello di Vibio
Province: Perugia · 422 m
A fifteenth-century walled village at 422 meters above the Tiber, home to the world's smallest all'italiana theatre with 99 seats.
Drive times measured by road from Spoleto. A town with no time shown is one the router could not reach, usually because it is served by ferry. How this data is built.