Umbria is a region of a striking beauty where it is possible to admire lots of typical villages; it has also many hotel facilities that are able to accommodate at the best the tourists that come here to visit this land.
The regional capital is Perugia and the other important city is Terni.

Perugia is a very beautiful city of Umbria where it is possible to admire marvellous and very interesting places, some of them are Etruscan Arch, “Porta Marzia” and “Rocca Paolina”; there are also a lot of museums and archaeological areas to be visited. A famous archaeological site is Hypogeum of Volumni where you can find an Etruscan grave that goes back to the third century before Christ.
Round to the province of Perugia there are many sights that are visited each year by lots of tourists such as Assisi, Città di Castello and Spoleto. Assisi is a town visited by millions of peregrines because of here there are a lot of places of worship like the Basilica of San Francesco d’Assisi and the Basilica of Santa Chiara; there are also archaeological finds to be visited like the Temple of Minerva.

Terni is a beautiful sight, and although this town was destroyed during the Second World War, it preserves a lot of art work and buildings that have a great historical importance and that need to be visited. Some interesting buildings are the Cathedral, the Church of San Francesco and architectural works as the Porta Sant’Angelo; nearby the province of Terni the nature offers the spectacular Marmore Falls, a work that goes back to the Roman period.

In Umbria there are museums in which you could admire archaeological finds of inestimable value such as the National Archaeological Museum of Umbria; in fact, Umbria was conquered by Etruscans and Romans and also in a lot of monuments it is possible to view their influence. If you are nature lovers you could go to the in the numerous parks such as the park of Lake Trasimeno (Trasimeno Regional Park) and the Tiber River Park, as this region is also known as the “green heart of Italy”.

This region offers tourists to stay in comfortable hotel accommodation; residential hotels, hotels and farmhouse holiday. Do not forget to enter in some farmhouse restaurants where you could taste typical specialities of Umbria; typical dishes like tagliatelle with truffles from Val Nerina and beans with pork rinds (fagioli con le cotiche in Italian). Here you could also taste excellent wines as the white wine Moscato Bianco.

Umbria’s economy is largely based on industry, tourism, agriculture and handicraft; it is a productive land that each year produces excellent products and where you could find many artisan workshops in which handicraftsmen create their beautiful artefacts.