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Roccaporena
To alone 6 km set among the mountains there is the small town of Roccaporena, it is place of prayer and of strong naturalistic suggestion. City native of Saint Rita is famous for the rock-cliff of the prayer and for the garden of the miracles.
Castelluccio
We are in the Monti Sibillini National Park, altitude 1500 mt, behind the Vettore Mountain. It is the kingdom where the eagles fly, but also the deltaplanis and the parapendiis. It is the place of the liberty, and to feel at one's ease with themselves and with the nature.
Norcia
City of art, of refined tastes as the truffle, the lentil, the norcineria, the cheeses. It is the earth of Benedict and Scolastica, of Eufente and Sertorio, of the water meadow and watermills. The square contains the most important monuments as St. Benedict Abbey, the Town Building, the Small fortress of the Castellina, the church of Saint Maria Argentea.
Monteleone di Spoleto
For its position, altitude 950mt, it is as a lion that watches over on the entry in Umbria from the part of the Corno. Strategic point, but also place where the farro is produced, extraordinary cereal known and appreciated from the Roman world. Of the famous chariot of the VI sec B.C., now to the "Metropolitan Museum " of New York, you can find a faithful copy.
Preci
The past has left each other the magnificent casket of the Abbey-small Fortress of Saint Eutizio sec XII, where the monks Eutizio and Spes gave life to a monasticism of oriental origin to which St. Benedict will draw on. To visit the caves of the first monks and the beautiful church that it contains the graves of the two Saints.
Vallo di Nera
It is the country-castle risen in 1217 and that preserve still today the same architectural structure. To visit the churches of St. Giovanni and of Saint Maria, where precious frescos of grotesque school can be admired. To provide oneself with videocamera to photograph the alleys and the foreshortenings inside the country.
San Felice
Immediately after the gallery that connects Umbria's Plain with the Valnerina, you can see an extraordinary Romanesque structure that is the St. Felice Abbey, the saint monk of VI sec d.C. that he defeated the dragon of malaria that tormented the valley. In the mysticism of the place you can always find again a human dimension of the way of living.
Scheggino
First commune of upper Valnerina, that preserve still today its medieval plant. Clear waters, fresh shades make the standstill pleasant in this place bathed from the Nera River and from the stream Valcasana.
Spoleto
It is the city of "Due Mondi" Festival, but still before the Dukes' City. Precious testimonies of epoch Umbra, Roman and Medieval. You cannot be neglected, The Bridge of the Towers, architectural work of 1350, the Fortress, now residence of the Civic Museum and the beautiful Cathedral with the magnificent pictorial cycle of Filippo Lippi.
Foligno
It is the richer and important commercial and industrial centre of the Valley Umbra, rich of shops it is the ideal city of the lovers of the shopping. Famous the Giostra of the Quintana, chivalrous tournament that attracts still today numerous visitors.
Assisi
Small town sited on the Subasio Mountain is the city of the peace and the spirit. Earth of St. Francis and Saint Chiara is rich of medieval buildings and of churches of stately beauty architectural as the Basilica of St. Francis with the works of Giotto. Not to lose besides the party of the Calendimaggio the first weekend of May and the Palio of St. Rufino in August.
Perugia
Perugia chief town of province of Umbria, stands on a hill in the Tevere valley. Famous city of art rich in history and monuments, earth of great artists as the Pinturicchio, today it is a remarkable cultural and economic pole and destination of numerous tourists and students. It is centre of one of the most ancient Universities of the Studies of the peninsula (founded in the 1308), over that of the greatest University for foreigners of Italy. Very important the National Gallery of Umbria, museum of the city, that contains the greatest harvest of works, from the XIII to the XIX century, of artists artists that have been in Umbria as Arnolfo Di Cambio, Piero della Francesca, Perugino, past for Umbria.
Terni
Terni also note as "The City of lovers", country of St. Valentine, it is the earth of the Marmore Falls, hydraulic Roman work of the III century, that still today it is able to excite by the strength and the majesty of its waters the visitors.
Rome
With only 90 minutes from Cascia you can be reach the capital of Italy: Rome. City without equal to the world it is a real encyclopedia in the open air of the Roman civilization. Seat of the Papal State it is earth of popes and destination of numerous pilgrims coming from the whole world.
Loreto
Attainable with 2 hours of car the city of Loreto. Famous for the Saint House, the house where, according to the tradition, the Virgin Maria was born and lived and where it received the announcement of the miraculous birth of Jesus.
Le Grotte di Frasassi
Other attainable important destination from Cascia with few times of trip are the Caves of Frassassi stupendous underground landscape. Inside the hollow can be admired some natural sculptures formed, during 190 million years, by calcareous stratifications thanks to the work of the water and the rock.
San Giovanni Rotondo
Earth of hope and prayer, the name of this city is tied up to the figure of Saint Pio. Easily attainable from Cascia it can be ideal destination for a religious tour.




