Bandiera Arancione
Bandiera Arancione in Umbria
10 towns
Umbria carries 10 of the Bandiera Arancione towns we cover. All sit in the province of Perugia.
The three most recognized in our catalogue are Norcia, Trevi, and Bevagna. 7 more towns carry the mark alongside them.
The towns
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.
- Written about. No. 90.
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.
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.
- Written about. No. 81.
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 334 people at 467 meters in the upper Valnerina, granted by Spoleto in 1217 and barely changed since.
- Written about. No. 78.
Città della Pieve
Province: Perugia · 508 m
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.
- Written about. No. 85.
Panicale
Province: Perugia · 431 m
A walled hill town at 431 meters on Monte Petrarvella, where a 1505 Perugino fresco covers the back wall of San Sebastiano.
Montone
Province: Perugia · 482 m
A walled medieval hill town at 482 meters above the upper Tiber, birthplace of the condottiero Braccio Fortebracci.
From elsewhere in Italy
Five more towns
Pontremoli
Province: Massa-Carrara
The capital of Lunigiana at the confluence of the Magra and Verde, holding the prehistoric stele statues and the oldest book prize in Italy.
Casoli
Province: Chieti
A 378-meter hill town above the Aventino under the Maiella, with a pentagonal Norman tower that once hosted a court of artists.
Specchia
Province: Lecce
A medieval Salento borgo on the Serra Magnone at 130 meters, named for the Messapian stone lookouts that once watched the coast.
Forni di Sotto
Province: Udine
Carnia's Dolomite gateway: a 520-resident alpine borgo at 777m in the upper Val Tagliamento, with Borgo Autentico mark, a centro almost entirely rebuilt after the 1944 German wartime burning, and direct access to the Forni Avoltri-Sappada ski and hiking circuit.
San Benedetto Po
Province: Mantova
A former river island whose entire existence traces back to the Benedictine abbey founded on it in 1007.