Borghi, arte e storia minore
Si occupa di borghi, centri storici, chiese e siti archeologici: paesi sotto i mille abitanti e architetture fuori dalle guide turistiche ufficiali.
At 978 metres in the Sibillini Mountains, this medieval village has been reclaiming for decades its sixth-century BC Etruscan chariot, now on display at the Metropolitan Museum in New York.
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Above the southern shore of Lake Trasimeno, Panicale holds a masterpiece by Perugino and a theatre whose origins date to 1692, still in use, ignored by those rushing to Castiglione.
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In Scheggino, women repelled a siege in 1522 armed with stones and pots. Today the village smells of black truffle, with the Nera flowing past every doorstep.
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In the upper Valnerina, a stone village hides the story of the Precian School of Surgery, which between the tenth and sixteenth centuries sent doctors all over Europe.
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Atop an Umbrian hill overlooking the Tiber, nine families built a ninety-nine-seat baroque jewel in 1808. It is still in operation.
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So close to Perugia it could seem a neighbourhood, so different it could seem another world: Corciano preserves an almost intact network of concentric medieval streets.
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Clinging to Monte Eolo, Cesi hides seven churches, a legendary underground city, and air currents that rise from the bowels of the rock.
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Founded in 1217 on a spur in the Valnerina, Vallo di Nera preserves walls, towers, and Romanesque churches in an urban equilibrium that has withstood eight centuries of history.
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On a hill overlooking the Tiber, Lugnano holds the earliest known evidence of malaria and the burial of a girl with a stone in her mouth.
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