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Things to do in Montefalco Italy – what to see attractions and activities

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Foligno (5 Km)

Torre di Montefalco

Bevagna (6 Km)

Museo Comunale di Bevagna

The Municipal Museum of Bevagna was inaugurated in 1996. It welcomes materials and exhibits from the surrounding territory that tell the history of the city and its development between the 16th and 18th centuries. The core of the primary works comes from the storage of ecclesiastical goods decided by the Italian State in 1860. The Museum exhibits significant works such as the Cassa del Blessed Giacomo and the Altarpiece of Ciccoli.

Foligno (6 Km)

Museo Diocesano e Capitolare di Foligno

The museum houses a rich collection on Christian history, and inside there are beautiful works of artists such as: Cristoforo Roncalli, Bartolomeo di Tommaso, Cesare Permei and others.

Bevagna (6 Km)

Edificio Termale con Mosaici

The Thermal Building with Mosaics dates back to the second century AD and together with the Temple and the Roman Theatre they represent a work of great architectural beauty. Only four rooms are visible of the thermal building, one of which is decorated with a wonderful floor mosaic depicting marine animals.

Bevagna (6 Km)

Porta Cannara

Trevi (8 Km)

Trevi Flash Art Museum

The Trevi Flash Art Museum is held in the Palazzo Lucarini Contemporary. Many contemporary works are housed in this Museum. The gallery can be visited at any time, even outside opening hours, but only by reservation.

Trevi (8 Km)

Raccolta d' Arte di S. Francesco

The Art Collection of San Francesco is located inside the former convent of San Francesco. It was opened in October 1996. The collection includes paintings, sculptures, drawings, memorabilia and archaeological finds. It is part of the City Museum Circuit together with the Museum of Civilization of the Olive Tree which is located in the same place.

Trevi (8 Km)

Museo della Civiltà dell' Ulivo

The Museum of Civilization of the Olive Tree is located at the former convent of St. Francis. It is the first public museum dedicated to oil and olive trees in Europe. The exhibition offers the opportunity to read news about the olive tree from a historical, botanical, and agronomic point of view.

Foligno (8 Km)

Palazzo Vitelleschi

The Palace dates back to the 17th century and over the years has undergone numerous restorations. It took its name from Giovanni Vitelleschi, a cardinal of the time, who modified all Foligno, on the delegation of Pope Eugene IV. The interior, divided into four rooms (by David, Joseph, Solomon and Moses) contains numerous decorations typical of the '600, while, on the facade, there are two letters (G & P), probably the initials by Gregorio Piermarini. Currently, the building is home to an office of the municipality.

Foligno (8 Km)

Palazzo Guiducci

This building built in Via Antonio Gramsci, is one of the many historic buildings in Foligno and is currently listed as a historical monument of the city, even if it has been obscured by the various monuments and does not have received the appropriate awards from the town hall of Foligno.

Foligno (8 Km)

Oratorio Madonna del Gonfalone

The Oratory of Madonna del Gonfalone is located in Piazza San Francesco. The property has an elegant decoration of the Rococo style. It has an elliptical shape and the spaces marked by altars of the same type. The construction of the Oratory dates back to the 16th century. The current aspect is that of the last restoration of 1730.

Spello (8 Km)

Pinacoteca Civica

The Civic Art Gallery is located since 1994 in the Palazzo dei Canonici, in the historic center. The collection of the art gallery was born in 1914 from the collections of works from the Church of Santa Maria Maggiore. The route is divided into seven rooms arranged in chronological order.

Foligno (8 Km)

Palazzo Deli

The Deli Palace was built in 1510. The construction of the building was decided by the Nuti - Varini family. In the building we can see the classic and fine taste with stone decorations. The garden also has a very nice decoration. Currently the building is the seat of the State Archives.

Foligno (8 Km)

Pinacoteca Comunale

The Municipal Art Gallery of Foligno is the most important museum in Foligno and is located at the Palazzo Trinci. The Art Gallery has 8 rooms in which the works of different artists are exhibited, the best known in the period of the fourteenth and nineteenth centuries. It is divided into 3 sections, that of the '300, the '400, of the '500.

Foligno (8 Km)

Teatro Piermarini

The first information about the theater dates back to 1600, but the theater in the early 700 was destroyed by an earthquake. It was rebuilt later and over the years it had different denominations. Only in 1891 the city administration decided to name it to its most illustrious citizen Piermarini, after it had been renovated and modified in some of its parts, such as the three old doors with three arches.

Foligno (8 Km)

Palazzo Trinci

The Palazzo Trinci is characterized by the late Gothic style, the frescoes that are found correspond to the early fifteenth century. Thanks to the collaboration of other artists, Gentile da Fabriano managed to create these frescoes. At the end of the 14th century, the Trinci bought the houses and towers bordering their home to unify them later into a single complex. In 1439, the Trinci were expelled and the palace passed to the papal governors.

Foligno (8 Km)

Museo Archeologico Comunale

The Municipal Archaeological Museum is located in the center of Foligno, in Piazza della Repubblica. It is located in the Palazzo Trinci, inside which are located the Pinacoteca, the Museum of the Municipal Institution, the Multimedia Museum of Rides and Tournaments and the Archaeological Museum. It currently houses a large collection of works, a hundred paintings, sculptures and a collection of ancient and modern art. The Museum is open to everyone.

Foligno (8 Km)

Duomo di Foligno

The Cathedral of San Feliciano, known as the Cathedral of Foligno, is a beautiful religious building built around the twelfth century. It is worth visiting.

Foligno (9 Km)

Collegiata di San Salvatore

The collegiate church of San Salvatore was erected in the X-XII century. It is an ancient Benedictine structure with a facade of the fourteenth century that has three pointed portals surmounted by three rose windows. In the interior of the church you can admire the burial stone of Corradino Trinci, who was the prior of the collegiate church. You can admire the ancient frescoes, the Madonna with the Child, Saint John the Baptist and Blessed Pietro Crisci.

Foligno (9 Km)

Monastero di Santa Lucia

The monumental complex designed by architects Stefano Ittar and the Prince of Biscari was built at the end of the 18th century. Among the eighteenth-century structures, marble altars, a rococo choir and the majestic central altar with canopy cover emerge. The interior plan of the church consists of a single elliptical nave with a dome.

Perugia (9 Km)

Monastero di Santa Lucia

The Monastery of Santa Lucia was built in 1344 and is located in Perugia. In the courtyard of the monastery we find the Baroque church and inside there are three altars. It also has a library.

Foligno (9 Km)

Monastero Sant'anna

The Monastery was founded in the second half of the fourteenth century by Fra' Paoluccio Trinci. At that time he exercised his monasterial function for a group of young noble girls, for which he was also known as the 'Countess' Monastery. The building is full of frescoes from the 15th century, which make the decoration of the monastery very special; we can also mention its two famous interior cloisters. Currently, at the center of the building we can also find “La Casa Beata Angelina”, an institute of religious women, it is a receptive structure also open to the public.

Bevagna (9 Km)

Borgo di Torre del Colle

The Borgo di Torre del Colle is located on a hill in the valley of the Attone stream. During the first century it was known by the name Torre San Lorenzo, but in 1500, the town passed to the municipality of Bevagna. Access to the village was through an acute arch and at the entrance you immediately noticed the city walls along which a tower stood out, today a bell tower of the church of San Lorenzo.

Foligno (9 Km)

Eremo di Santa Maria Giacobbe

The hermitage of Santa Maria Giacobbe is located among the rocky flounces of Mount Pale, in a concavity of the wall. It can be reached only on foot from the village, along a steep path, sometimes staircase, that climbs between holm oaks and scree. The interior has numerous frescoes that we can distinguish in votive paintings and ornamental paintings.

Bevagna (11 Km)

Castelbuono

Castelbuono is located in the hamlet of Bevagna, in the province of Perugia. Historical research shows that it was one of the possessions of Matteolo di Monaldo. The castle, after being independent, passed to Malatesta Baglioni who donated it to the Trinci in 1567. Inside the castle there was the church of Santa Maria Assunta, in which it was possible to admire frescoes from the 16th century.

Spello (11 Km)

Porta Urbica

Porta Urbica was one of the city entrances. It is part of the ancient city walls built in Roman times. Like other Roman architecture, it stands out for its grandeur. On the one hand it is dominated by a small lookout tower.

Spello (11 Km)

Mosaici Domus Romana - Cupola parcheggio

The Mosaic dates back to the second century AD and was discovered during the renovation work of the former hospital. The visible part of the work presents a polychrome decoration where two pairs of birds are depicted. The peculiarity of the mosaic is its chromatic effect. It is assumed that the mosaic is the most important part of the Roman domus built in the area of the Roman Forum.

Spello (11 Km)

Porta Consolare

The Consular Gate is part of the oldest fortified wall in Italy. It was the main access to the ancient city and was composed of limestone blocks of the Subasio. It presented itself with a structure with three arches and bearing on the outside front three funeral statues.

Spello (11 Km)

Porta Venere

Porta Venere is part of one of the oldest Roman doors that open along the city walls of Spello. Its name probably comes from a previous temple dedicated to the goddess Venus. The Door consists of three forks of which the central one is the largest. On the sides there are still two towers with a polygonal plan.

Spello (12 Km)

Fortezza Albornoz

The Albornoz Fortress was built in the fourteenth century at the behest of Cardinal Egidio Alvarez Carrillo de Albornoz, from whom it also takes its name. It is located in the so-called Pian del Monte from where it dominates the whole city of Spello. The building has a rectangular plan and in the interior there are two semi-circular towers and two ramparts. On the ground floor there is the Bella Gerit classroom, inside which the exhibition Ardet ut Feriat is installed.

Spoleto (14 Km)

Cattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta

The Cathedral dates back to the end of the 12th century. Inside, numerous works of absolute importance: from the Painted Cross by Alberto Sotio (1187), to the cycle of the apse with Stories of the Virgin frescoed by Filippo Lippi between 1467 and 1469.

Collazzone (17 Km)

Castello di Poggio

The Castle of Poggio is located near the ancient village of Canalicchio. The castle dates back to the tenth or eleventh century and dominates, with its imposing tower and a beautiful church nearby, the cultivation of vines and olive trees in the center of the green Umbrian countryside.

Collazzone (17 Km)

Convento di San Lorenzo

The convent of San Lorenzo, not far from the castle of Collazzone, was home to Benedictine before and Franciscan then. The monastery consists of a part designed for the accommodation for the nuns and the church of Romanesque origin.

Assisi (18 Km)

Castello di Tordandrea

The castle of Tordandrea dates back to 1297. Tordandrea is a hamlet of Assisi that is about 6 km from the historic center. The castle remained under the power of the Baglioni until 1600, with the last lords Braccio and Carlo, grandchildren of Galeotto, who in the same year, will sell the marquisate to Giulio De' Conti Montauto.

Foligno (18 Km)

Castello Salvino ruderi

This castle is one of the oldest in the area. The architecture of the castle is special and characteristic, and its beauty has always enjoyed the attention of tourists despite some difficulties in accessing it.

Foligno (18 Km)

Torre della Rocca

The Fortress was designed according to the most up-to-date military canons of the late fifteenth century when the advent of artillery was fundamentally changing the appearance of all defensive structures. The latter is better known as Rocca Sonora, as it is said that the sounds, voices and noises that were inside it, echoed from the moment of its construction until its abandonment.

Foligno (18 Km)

Rocca Calestro ruderi

Rocca Calestro was built as a place of defense and as a residence of the Castellano. The building has an unregular shape and this is because it adapts to the hill above the village. From the original plan of the castle it would be said that the building was larger than what has been left in today's days. In the castle you can see part of the walls with two towers, the latter were renovated in the 90s and then moved on to the partial restoration of the ruin of the keep in 2006.

Spoleto (18 Km)

Castello di Eggi

Eggi Castle dates back to the fourteenth century. From the few historical documents found, we know that it was the fief of the Racani family, the nobles of the country. The Castle has a triangular base surmounted by two high defensive towers.

Spoleto (18 Km)

Museo del Tessuto e del Costume

In the rooms of Palazzo Rosari Spada there are many artifacts from various collections that represent a cross-section of the history of fabric and costume between the fourteenth and twentieth centuries.

Spoleto (18 Km)

Basilica di San Salvatore

Originally dedicated to the martyrs Concordio and Senzia, it was built between the end of the VII and the beginning of the 8th century. Today it is a UNESCO World Heritage Site within the “Italia Langobardorum” serial site Centers of Power and Worship (568-774 AD)

Spoleto (18 Km)

Rocca Albornoziana di Spoleto

The Fortress is located in Spoleto and was built in 1300 by Matteo Gattapone. The structure is rectangular in shape and inside it there were two courts: the Court of Arms and the Court of Honor. From 1817 until 1982 the building was used as a prison. Built by innocent VI in the 14th century with the aim of strengthening the defensive system of the Church-State, it has two courtyards and a complex system of angular towers joined together by high defensive walls.

Spoleto (19 Km)

Torre dell' Olio

The Torre dell'Olio is one of the most characteristic monuments of the city of Spoleto. In fact, it is considered the symbol of the city. Its construction dates back to the 13th century. The tower was named Torre dell'Olio as hot oil was poured to defend the city over enemies.

Spoleto (19 Km)

Palazzo Collicola Arti Visive - Museo Carandente

The museum's collection originated with the Spoleto Prize, an artistic competition designed to promote the birth of a permanent collection of contemporary art, thanks also to the important contribution of the critic Giovanni Carandente.

Spoleto (19 Km)

Museo Archeologico Nazionale

The National Archaeological Museum was opened in 1985 at the former monastery of Santa Agata. Recently, the museum was renovated. It presents the formation of the urban center of Spoleto from the first human presence. The Museum occupies two floors of the former monastery and also owns the theater built in the first century BC.

Spoleto (19 Km)

Museo Diocesano

The Museum was inaugurated in the 1970s at the Archbishop's Palace. The works are exhibited chronologically in the rooms dedicated to thematic consideration. The living rooms are adorned with doors of the '500. The first news dates back to the 10th century. The interior with three naves is divided by columns with reuse capitals, coming from classical and early medieval buildings, while the 13th century marble altar is carved with refined bas-reliefs.

Spoleto (19 Km)

Basilica di Sant'Eufemia

Among the most notable Romanesque buildings in Umbria (X-XII century) The church is characterized by an internal arrangement with three naves and the presence of the matroneo (entrance from the Diocesan Museum).

Spoleto (19 Km)

Piazza del Mercato

An ancient Roman forum, Piazza del Mercato was until the last century the most lively place in the city, where the most important public events took place. The scenographic source built between 1746 and 1748 shows you.

Spoleto (19 Km)

Casa Romana

Patrician house of the first century AD found between the end of the nineteenth century and the first decades of the next. This is a valuable stately house whose architectural pattern reflects the classic one of Roman homes.

Spoleto (19 Km)

Arco di Druso e Germanico

Built in 23 AD, it was the triumphant entrance to the Roman Forum, the current Piazza del Mercato. Here the stratification of the city is perceptible: the right pylon of the arch rests on the original plane of the hole.

Assisi (19 Km)

Eremo delle Carceri

It was built near some natural caves at 791 meters above sea level, and was frequented by hermits in the early Christian age. Even on this place were Saint Francis of Assisi and his followers to pray and meditate. It is built around a forest of centuries-old holm oaks. It is also surrounded by caves and small chapels where pilgrims retreat to this day.

Spoleto (19 Km)

Ponte delle Torri

The Bridge of Towers was erected at the end of 1300 on the remains of a Roman aqueduct to lead water from the mountain to the city. At its extreme is the Fortilizio dei Mulini, from which numerous walks to the Spoleto mountain start.

Spoleto (19 Km)

Teatro Romano

The Roman Theatre is located in Spoleto, in the province of Perugia and dates back to the first century BC. The structure suffered extensive damage due to a landslide, but was restored in the past. The theater is located within the city walls and keep a cavea of 70 m in diameter.

Spoleto (19 Km)

Laboratorio di Scienze della Terra

A point of interest of the municipality of Spoleto is represented by the Laboratory of Earth Sciences, created by an important and well-known nineteenth-century collection, geopaleontological by Count Francesco Toni. It is an educational and scientific museum. The geopaleontological collection was proposed to the public between 1867 and 1892 and includes about 6000 minerals, rocks and fossils.

Spoleto (19 Km)

Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna

It is located in the historic center of Spoleto and is housed in the Collicola Palace. The museum was opened in 2000. A lively museum, an active contemporary art hub, houses on the first floor the legacy of Giovanni Carandente and the works of the Spoleto Prize, while on the second floor there are contemporary exhibitions. Do not miss the visit to the library, the legacy of Giovanni Carandente, which preserves more than 20 thousand volumes of contemporary art.

Assisi (20 Km)

Porta Nuova

Assisi (20 Km)

Porta Cappuccini

Porta Capuchin is one of the old and ancient gates of Assisi, located at the exit of the city. At the time it was commonly referred to as the “Gate of St Anthony”. It is also famous for the walks of Giovanni Jorghensen usually walk underneath and cross it.

Assisi (20 Km)

Basilica di Santa Chiara

Built in Gothic style between 1257 and 1265, it had this name after the death of Saint Clare. Seeing the exterior and the walls with white and rosy stones, three large polygonal buttresses in the shape of wide rampant arches attract attention. Inside we find frescoes and fragments on the life of the saint. Girolamo Marinelli and Sigismondo Spagnoli worked for the frescoes and wall paintings.

Perugia (20 Km)

Fiume Topino

Assisi (20 Km)

Convento di San Damiano

St. Damians convent where St. Francis was ordered to restore the church in decay by the crucifix.

Assisi (20 Km)

Porta del Sementone

Assisi (20 Km)

Chiesa di Santa Maria Maggiore

Basilica of Santa Maria built on a grandiose scale, is the seventh largest Christian church. The chapel was given to St. Francis by the Benedictines,and is important because it was the initial nucleus from which the Franciscan order was born. A lot more to be learnt at the visit of the church.

Assisi (20 Km)

Porta Moiano

Porta Moiano was built in Roman times. It is a strong polygonal structure with very small slots instead of windows. Crossing it you reach the beautiful garden of the Bishop's Palace.

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Walls, towers and gates

Torre Santa Margherita

The Santa Margherita Tower was built in medieval times outside the urban walls of Spello. It was part of the women's monastery of San Giacomo and San Margherita. The complex then became the seat of the Augustinian nuns of Santa Maria del Paradiso. The Tower is quadrangular in plan, and is made of Subasio stone decorated with battlements.

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Things to do in Montefalco Italy – what to see attractions and activities

Porta Federico II

Palazzo Comunale

What To See near Montefalco

Torre di Montefalco

Museo Comunale di Bevagna

Museo Diocesano e Capitolare di Foligno

Edificio Termale con Mosaici

Porta Cannara

Trevi Flash Art Museum

Raccolta d' Arte di S. Francesco

Museo della Civiltà dell' Ulivo

Palazzo Vitelleschi

Palazzo Guiducci

Oratorio Madonna del Gonfalone

Pinacoteca Civica

Palazzo Deli

Pinacoteca Comunale

Teatro Piermarini

Palazzo Trinci

Museo Archeologico Comunale

Duomo di Foligno

Collegiata di San Salvatore

Monastero di Santa Lucia

Monastero di Santa Lucia

Monastero Sant'anna

Borgo di Torre del Colle

Eremo di Santa Maria Giacobbe

Castelbuono

Porta Urbica

Mosaici Domus Romana - Cupola parcheggio

Porta Consolare

Porta Venere

Fortezza Albornoz

Cattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta

Castello di Poggio

Convento di San Lorenzo

Castello di Tordandrea

Castello Salvino ruderi

Torre della Rocca

Rocca Calestro ruderi

Castello di Eggi

Museo del Tessuto e del Costume

Basilica di San Salvatore

Rocca Albornoziana di Spoleto

Torre dell' Olio

Palazzo Collicola Arti Visive - Museo Carandente

Museo Archeologico Nazionale

Museo Diocesano

Basilica di Sant'Eufemia

Piazza del Mercato

Casa Romana

Arco di Druso e Germanico

Eremo delle Carceri

Ponte delle Torri

Teatro Romano

Laboratorio di Scienze della Terra

Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna

Porta Nuova

Porta Cappuccini

Basilica di Santa Chiara

Fiume Topino

Convento di San Damiano

Porta del Sementone

Chiesa di Santa Maria Maggiore

Porta Moiano

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Torre Santa Margherita

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