1. Numerous Umbrian towns hold their own summer festivals of music, theatre, and dance.

2. Internet advertising for Bed & Breakfast rooms, vacation rental apartments, holiday homes, Umbrian villas in Spoleto, Italy.

3. There are three apartments available, appointed in simple style with a sprinkling of original Umbrian peasant furniture.

4. The Northern Apennines are further divided into three sub-chains: Ligurian Apennines, Tuscan-Emilian Apennines, and Umbrian Apennines

5. Agriturismo Il Beccafico Alpaca is a traditional farmhouse in Mengara in the Umbrian countryside, 15 minutes' drive from Gubbio

6. We can organise excursions on horseback in the beautiful Umbrian countryside for those interested which must be booked 36 hours in advance, for info!

7. Assisi is a small Umbrian town in central Italy, located 12 miles (19 km) east of Perugia at an elevation of 1,300 feet (400 meters)

8. Da Baffone is known for rustic Umbrian cuisine at its finest, and you can get every course covered in a layer of shaved truffles if you desire

9. 1446/1452 – 1523), born Pietro Vannucci, was an Italian Renaissance painter of the Umbrian school, who developed some of the qualities that found classic expression in the High Renaissance.

10. Latin and its nearest Congeners, like Faliscan); and (d) Umbrian (or, as it may more safely be called, Iguvine), two principles of classification offer themselves, of which the first is purely linguistic, the second linguistic and topographical.

11. An intact piece of the Umbrian Countryside a place of harmony and silence at the foot of the great Basilica of St Francis of Assisi; a walk through this landscape becomes an inner journey - one that inspired Michelangelo Pistoletto to create a …

12. You can loll with the students from the International University on the steps of the Cathedral or amble down the broad pedestrian way from those steps to sit on a bench at the other end and watch as the Umbrian hills dissolve into a twilight vision that is the landscape behind the Mona Lisa. The more energetic can hike out to St. Angelo's in the northwest of the city, where sixteen ancient columns form the centrepiece of a brick church that glows with the light from garnet windows on a site that has been sacred from the times of the Etruscans.