UMBRIA
Umbriam started inhabiting here in the 8th century
BC and later the region became the colony of the Etruscans
and Romans.
In
the Middle Ages, a dukedom was founded around the center of Spoleto.
The most of the region's independent city-states was gathered
by the Papal States by the 13th century, where they remained until
Italian unification in 1860. Today Umbria glories the old towns.
Perugia
is the region's capital and the smaller centers of Gubbio, Montefalco
and Todi. There are numerous Romanesque shurches, civic palaces,
vivid fresco cycles, and ndless medieval nooks and crannies in those
towns. Spoleto, it remains the greatness vestiges which shows/express
the blend of the medievalism, the Romans and some of Italy's oldest
churches.
Orivieto
still remains the Etruscan and there is one of Italy's finest Romanesque-Gothic
cathedrals.
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