Umbria is a region of central Italy. It includes Lake Trasimeno and Marmore Falls, and is crossed by the Tiber. It is the only landlocked region on the Apennine Peninsula. The regional capital is Perugia.
The Clitunno, in Antiquity the Clitumnus, is a river in Umbria, Italy. The name is of uncertain origin, but it was also borne by the river god. The Clitunno rises from a spring within a dozen metres of the ancient Via Flaminia near the town of Campello sul Clitunno between Spoleto and Trevi.
Michelangelo Carducci was a 16th-century Italian painter of the Renaissance period active in Umbria. He was born in Norcia. Extant works include:
Spello is an ancient town and comune (township) of Italy, in the province of Perugia in eastern-central Umbria, on the lower southern flank of Mt. Subasio. It is 6 km (4 mi) NNW of Foligno and 10 km (6 mi) SSE of Assisi. It is one of I Borghi più belli d'Italia.
San Pietro in Bovara is a Romanesque and Gothic-style, Roman Catholic church and abbey located on Via Don Sturzo #2 in Bovara, a frazione of the town of Trevi, in the province of Perugia, region of Umbria, central Italy.
Hispellum was an ancient town of Umbria, Italy, 6 km (3.7 mi) north of Fulginiae on the road to Perusia.
Regio VI Umbria is the name for one of the 11 administrative regions into which the emperor Augustus divided Italy. The main source for the regions is the Historia Naturalis of Pliny the Elder, who informs his readers he is basing the geography of Italy on the descriptio Italiae, "division of Italy", made by Augustus. The Regio Sexta is called Umbria complexa agrumque Gallicam citra Ariminium.
Cannara is a town and comune on the Topino River in the floodplain of central Umbria, in the province of Perugia. It is located about 7 km west of Spello and 9 km north of Bevagna.
Mount Subasio is a mountain of the Apennine mountains, in the province of Perugia, Umbria, central Italy. On its slopes are located the ancient towns of Assisi and Spello.
There are 70 community bands, 110 community choirs, and about 20 secondary music schools. The region is famous for its music festivals, including the Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto and the Umbria Jazz Festival.
Valtopina is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Perugia in the Italian region Umbria, located about 30 km east of Perugia. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 1,399 and an area of 40.5 km2.
RodolfoBaglioni was an Italian condottiero serving in the Imperial army during the Italian War of 1542. He was the son of Malatesta II Baglioni, from whom he inherited the lordship of Perugia, Bettona, Spello and other lands in Umbria.
Cola Petruccioli (1360–1401) was an Italian painter from Orvieto in Umbria, known as an apprentice to Ugolino di Prete Ilaro, active in the period around 1400 and contemporary of the Sienese School.
Cantalupo is a frazione of Bevagna in the Italian region Umbria located at an elevation of 201 m on the Torrente Attone, a tributary of the Topino River. It is a small farming community in the low alluvial plains of central Umbria; its principal crop is grapes for wine.
Andrea Camassei was an Italian Baroque painter and engraver mainly active in Rome under the patronage of the Barberini.
Collepino is a village in Umbria, central Italy. It is a frazione of the comune of Spello.
The Topino is a river in Umbria, central Italy. It was known in ancient times as Supunna by Umbri and later in Latin as Tinia and is mentioned by Dante Alighieri in the Canto XI of the Paradise. It is the main tributary of the Chiascio, in the Tiber basin. It is about 50 km long, and its drainage basin covers 1,234 km2.
Gian Paolo Baglioni was an Italian condottiero,, count of Bettona and Spello and lord of Perugia.
The Chiascio is a river of Umbria, central Italy. It is a left tributary of the Tiber. It is 95 km long, and its drainage basin covers 1962 km2. Its largest tributary is the Topino, which covers 60% of its drainage basin.
San Lorenzo is a 14th-century church located in Spello, in Perugia province Umbria, Italy.
