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Part of Via Flaminia in Carsulae.

Part of Via Flaminia in Carsulae.

The bridge spanned the river.

Looking up at the arch.

One arch remains of this bridge on the Via Flaminia.

By girasoli (susan) from HI, Spring/Summer 2005 June 7 - July 3, 2005: Spello, Perugia, Empoli, Sirmione, Coccaglio, Bellagio, & Day Trips This trip report was originally posted on SlowTrav. I have edited this report a bit by organizing it a little better and trying to shorten it a little. I...

Hi everyone! I used to post at SlowTrav (a long time ago now!) and I was very excited to see a lot of familiar names here! I was able to register with my old username too, so that was cool. :) My sister, my little niece and I would like to go to Italy this summer, and I would love to stay in an...

By Pokey from Massachusetts, Fall 2004 Venice, Florence, Radda in Chianti, Assisi, and Rome. Oct. 3-22, 2004 This trip report was originally posted on SlowTrav. Venice, Magic and Mosquitos Finally! After almost one year of planning, the day is here! Oct. 2nd, I head down via Amtrak...

On this trip to Italy, with my husband and three other couples, I thought it would be fun to include some tours/activities during our week in Umbria to provide us with a more in-depth look at the culture and traditions in "the green heart of Italy". Since food and wine are interests we all...

On this trip to Italy, with my husband and three other couples, I thought it would be fun to include some tours/activities during our week in Umbria to provide us with a more in-depth look at the culture and traditions in "the green heart of Italy". Since food and wine are interests we all...

Hi , just finishing reading a book by an author I have never heard from before about my favorite place in Italy Spello. It's a romance fiction with a twist set with a Goddess and a sacred spring of healing. The ebook is called 'Under Spello Sky' has anyone read it or do they know anything about...

This three-bedroom house, on the site of the Alla Madonna del Piatto Bed and Breakfast, is really lovely; comfortable and clean while offering all the charm of rural Umbria. Hosts Letizia and Ruurd have recently renovated this home with a careful eye to maintaining the historic character while...

Italy 2017, the odyssey We’re down to less than five weeks before we (us playful “otters”-- wife and I) leave for Roma. Now, if anyone will be in the same areas we will be on during our odyssey we’ll try for a GTG (get together). The past two months have been a blur with “where do we really...

Having just returned from a research trip to Italy I am still processing all the wonderful people and places I encountered. Of course, because this trip was meant as a test case for the future, it was not what I would call "slow travel". We stayed in five different agritourismos and ate out...

Agency: Booked through HomeAway: www.homeaway.co.uk/p735796vb Rental: 1 bedroom (plus a pulldown bed in a mezzanine), 1 bathroom apartment Date: May 2017 (€700/week) This was our third stay in Spoleto. The last time we rented from Umbria Holiday Rentals (read my review of Terrazza Mercato)...

The earthquake that hit central Italy in August 2016 had an effect on Spoleto, even though the center of the quake was in Accumoli and Amatrice, over 70kms east. The famous medieval bridge the Ponte delle Torri is closed. This bridge leads to the main hiking trails up to Monteluco (trail 1)...

[Pauline told us to come back, so I'm back — I do what I'm told…] Although travel anywhere isn't in the cards for me this year, if I could, I'd go to the areas hit by the August quake, they need the tourism. Some of the loveliest little towns in central Italy were affected, chief maybe among...

Alla Madonna del Piatto Six B&B rooms in an historic farmhouse, with views over the hills towards Assisi. 2bed/2bath apartment Letizia and her family have created a B&B and a vacation rental apartment out of part of their historic farmhouse in the countryside near Assisi. We have not stayed...

The pre-Easter trip to the Amalfi Coast is off and an after-Easter trip has been booked! We fly into Rome, drive to Basilicata (overnighting somewhere on the way), and spend 10 nights at @Valerie 's house. We are cat sitting her wonderful Lucano (the cat that loves my knitted vegetables). We...