Parco Regionale
Parco Regionale in Umbria
19 towns
Umbria holds 19 Parco Regionale sites inside our catalogue. They are in the Perugia and Terni provinces.
The three most recognized in our catalogue are Gubbio, Nocera Umbra, and Orvieto. 16 more towns carry the mark alongside them.
The towns
- Written about. No. 91.
Gubbio
Province: Perugia · 522 m
Pre-Roman Ikuvium of the Umbri, where seven bronze tablets carry the longest text of the Umbrian language.
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.
- Written about. No. 83.
Orvieto
Province: Terni · 325 m
Etruscan Velzna on a 325-meter tufa butte, later a medieval refuge of popes.
- Written about. No. 84.
Paciano
Province: Perugia · 391 m
Walled hill town of 937 people at 391 meters above the lake, three parallel streets, eight towers and three medieval gates intact.
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.
Arrone
Province: Terni · 243 m
Medieval castle village on the left bank of the Nera at 243 meters, upstream from the largest man-made waterfall in the world.
- 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.
Deruta
Province: Perugia · 218 m
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. 79.
Foligno
Province: Perugia · 235 m
A valley town at 235 meters on the Topino, where Dante's Divine Comedy was first printed in 1472.
- Written about. No. 72.
Todi
Province: Perugia · 398 m
A walled hill town at 398 meters on the Tiber, with Etruscan, Roman, and medieval rings stacked one above the other.
- Written about. No. 62.
Assisi
Province: Perugia · 424 m
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.
- Written about. No. 76.
Bettona
Province: Perugia · 353 m
A hill town at 353 meters between the Topino and Chiascio rivers, the only Etruscan settlement ever built east of the Tiber.
Corciano
Province: Perugia · 408 m
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.
- 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.
- Written about. No. 61.
Passignano sul Trasimeno
Province: Perugia · 289 m
A near-peninsula on the northern shore of Lake Trasimeno, on the road Hannibal closed when he ambushed the Romans in 217 BC.
- Written about. No. 59.
Castiglione del Lago
Province: Perugia · 304 m
Trasimeno's western promontory, once the lake's fourth island, fortified in 1247 and later frescoed for a marquis of Corgna.
Fossato di Vico
Province: Perugia · 581 m
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. 60.
Magione
Province: Perugia · 299 m
A hill town east of Trasimeno built around a medieval Order's fortified base.
- Written about. No. 88.
Terni
Province: Terni · 130 m
Umbria's second city, rebuilt around its steelworks, home of Saint Valentine and seven kilometers from the Cascata delle Marmore.
From elsewhere in Italy
Five more towns
Centola
Province: Salerno
A Cilento hill village at 336 meters whose seaside frazione carries the name of Aeneas' helmsman.
Sarnano
Province: Macerata
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.
Bellano
Province: Lecco
An eastern shore town where the Pioverna cut a gorge through fifteen million years of rock before reaching the water.
San Giovanni Rotondo
Province: Foggia
The Gargano town that became one of Italy's most visited pilgrimage sites, its skyline defined by a stone sanctuary large enough to seat 6,500.
Volterra
Province: Pisa
The Etruscan acropolis of Velathri at 531 meters, the alabaster town that has been carving the same stone for three thousand years.