Religious Places

The Umbrian Valley, also known as the Spoletana Valley

The Valle Umbra, also called Valle Spoletana, is a wide and extensive alluvial plain, between Monteluco and Monti Martani, and offers a varied territory rich in archaeology, art and history. Splendid monuments, picturesque castles, charming villages emanate a charm of other times and testify the ancient union between inhabited centres and nature. In the Spoletana Valley we find the municipalities of: Campello sul Clitunno, Castel Ritaldi, Giano dell’Umbria and Spoleto.These places are surrounded by an extraordinary green landscape, made of woods, olive groves, vineyards, from which descend the local gastronomic traditions characterized by simple and genuine ingredients: cereals, vegetables, legumes, wild asparagus, mushrooms, truffles, accompanied today by the production of certified extra virgin olive oil and wines with doc mark. To taste: excellent cold cuts (sausages, ciausculi, mezzafegati, mountain hams, fennel), excellent wines; spaghetti alla spoletina, omelette with truffles, game salmì.

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