Slow trip
5 slow days: Bevagna
A 5-day slow trip across 5 towns based out of Bevagna, drawn from the 1,000 Italian communes most travelers skip.
5 days · May · food & wine-first · moderate walking
Bevagna
Bevagna, 5 days
Base yourself in Bevagna and make these your day trips.
5 towns · qualifying pool of 17 from 103 candidates
Hill towns in the province of Perugia. Prosciutto di Norcia IGP, Borghi Più Belli d'Italia, and TCI Bandiera Arancione.
Getting around
Rent a car for this corner. Bevagna, your base, has no station, so plan to arrive by car. Only 1 of the 5 towns have a railway station; the day trips assume driving.
Your timing
May sits in this corner's best window: open, temperate, and short of the crowd months.
While you're there
- Gubbio — Corsa dei Ceri, MayUNESCO-listed May 15 race carrying three 5-metre, 300kg wooden ceri up the mountain to St Ubaldo, drawing 100,000 spectators each year.
Day 1 · Arrive in Bevagna
Settle in. Bevagna is your base for the next 5 days. Take the afternoon to walk the centro, find your bearings, eat something local.
Day 2 · Day trip to Montefalco
First outing. Head to Montefalco for the day. Take the slow road, leave time to wander, be back in Bevagna for dinner.
Day 3 · Day trip to Spoleto
Out again, this time to Spoleto. Same rhythm: leave after breakfast, return for evening in Bevagna.
Day 4 · Day trip to Gubbio
Out again, this time to Gubbio. Same rhythm: leave after breakfast, return for evening in Bevagna.
Day 5 · Day trip to Norcia
Last day trip in this corner, to Norcia. Make a day of it, then back to Bevagna.
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