Santa Spinna – one of the major events in Montone
If you are near Montone around mid-August, it is worth checking out if it coincides with one of the city’s great events of the year, Donazione delle Santa Spinna. The festival – lasting eight days – presents a medieval arcade with archery, plays,...
CHOOSING THE RIGHT RESTAURANT
There are countless wonderful restaurants in Italy. Nevertheless, most tourists have at least once or twice ended up in what you could call “tourist traps”. Places where food is more fit in a garbage bin than on a plate. But how do you find the good...
The world’s largest wine producer
Italy is the world’s largest wine producer! As a topic of conversation, both football, pasta and fashion is by far oversized by wine, as it for Italians is the epitome of history, culture and good taste. Wine is always on the lips of italian, and of...
CITTÀ DELLA DOMENICA
Just let it be said right away: If you want to visit the theme parks like Legoland and Disney parks, as a family of children, Umbria will certainly disappoint. For here there are no plastic parks with countless electronic rides that bump and bump and require that you...
Donazione della Santa Spina
Once a year, in mid-August, the town of Montone turns back time 550 years and celebrates one of great heroes the town has had, Carlo Fortebraccio. For a whole week the three districts of Montone (Rioni) “Porta del monte”, “Porta di...
AIR BALLONS IN THE SKY
Let me just say it as it is; I have seen and experienced a lot in Italy. But not many things come in line with the experience of standing in the early morning between hills and valleys, sunflowers and olive trees,and witnessing more than 50 hot air balloons, going up...
BOAT RACING TAKES PLACE IN THE WATER
In Passignano sul Trasimeno the last Sunday in July is a big day! A very big day! It’s the day of the big fight between the city’s four districts – thein Palio delle Barche – a boat race that takes place as much at land as on the water....
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A Danish family of 5 on adventure. Have taken a year out of the calendar to live in Umbria. On the blog you can keep track of our experiences.
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