Umbria
Umbria is one of the smaller regions of Italy. It has no large cities and a total population of less than a million. What it lacks in size, it makes up for in the beauty of its agricultural land and in its many fascinating small towns.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Perugia and Terni.
Perugia
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Perugia is a city in the Italian region of Umbria. It has an important university that attracts many foreign students, is a major center of medieval art, has a stunningly beautiful central area and is home of the Umbria Jazz Festival.
Terni
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Terni is in the Umbria region of Italy. It is mainly an industrial town and as a result was heavily bombed by the Allies during the Second World War. In the 19th Century it was known as the "Manchester of Italy".
Assisi
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Assisi is a small medieval town of about 28,000 people perched on a hill in Umbria, the heart of Italy. Famous as the birthplace of St. Francis, Assisi holds religious, historical, and artistic significance.
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Orvieto
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Orvieto is a city in Umbria. Designed to be impregnable, it was founded by the Etruscans on the top of a steep hill made of tufa, a volcanic ash stone.
Gubbio
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Gubbio is a lovely small walled medieval city in Umbria in central Italy. It is located to the northeast of Perugia on the slopes of Monte Ingino. The city's history dates back to the Pre-Roman era.
Foligno
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Foligno is a city in central Umbria in Italy. Foligno is an important rail centre and one of the more industrialized towns of Umbria.
Spoleto
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Spoleto is a city in the Umbria region of Italy. Spoleto is a small but lovely city with an ancient past. Its importance during Roman times is shown by the ruins of the Roman theatre its citizens used to patronize.
Todi
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Todi is a small hilltown in Umbria. It overlooks the east bank of the river Tiber, and is both impressive from a distance and has impressive views from its centre.
Città di Castello
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Città di Castello is a city and comune in the province of Perugia, in the northern part of Umbria. It is situated on a slope of the Apennines, on the flood plain along the upper part of the river Tiber.
Trevi
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Trevi is a city in Umbria, Italy. Trevi is one of the most delightful of Umbrian hilltop villages and it's worth some effort to see it.
Narni
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Narni is a city and hill town in the south of the Italian region of Umbria. It lays claim to being the geographical center of Italy, although this claim is also made by nearby Rieti.
Spello
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Spello is an ancient town and comune of Italy, in the province of Perugia in eastern-central Umbria, on the lower southern flank of Monte Subasio. It is 6 km NNW of Foligno and 10 km SSE of Assisi.
Lake Trasimeno
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Lake Trasimeno is in the northwest corner of Umbria in Italy. The lake is a popular tourist destination and there are many camping sites, particularly to the south and west. However, it lacks major tourist attractions.
Montefalco
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Montefalco is a hill town in southern Umbria in Italy, south of Assisi and north of Spoleto. It is well-known as a wine producing centre.
Montone
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Montone is a town of 1,600 people in Umbria in central Italy. It is a peaceful hill town in a beautiful panoramic position between two tributaries of the Tiber river.
Marsciano
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Marsciano is a city of in Umbria between Perugia and Todi. As a brickmaking town it has an interesting little museum on the topic. The area covered by the municipality is a very hilly and green area, with many medieval borghi and at least a couple of notable winemakers.
Deruta
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Deruta is a town in the centre of the region of Umbria in central Italy. It is mainly known as a center for the production of ceramics.
Corciano
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Corciano is a village in Umbria nearby Perugia. Corciano has an interesting and well-preserved historical centre with a medieval appearance and an almost circular shape, partially still surrounded by walls.
Città della Pieve
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Città della Pieve is a comune in the Province of Perugia in the Italian region Umbria, located in Valdichiana a few kilometres from the border between Umbria and Tuscany, and about 50 km southwest of Perugia and 11 km southeast of Chiusi in Tuscany.
Umbertide
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Umbertide is a town and comune in the province of Perugia, in the Italian region of Umbria, at the confluence of the Reggia river and the Tiber. It is 30 km north of Perugia and 20 km south of Città di Castello.
Bevagna
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Bevagna is a slightly unusual town for Umbria in that it is not a hill town but flat, lying in the plain of the Topino river. It has several interesting things to see.
Torgiano
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Torgiano is a town in Umbria, 10 km southeast of Perugia. It is mainly famous as the headquarters of the wine producer, Lungarotti and for its wine museum, which should not be missed by anyone interested in wine.
Otricoli
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Otricoli is in the Umbria region of Italy. Otricoli is an ancient town and is in the province of Terni.
Umbria
- Type: State with 859,000 residents
- Description: region of Italy
- Also known as: “UMB”
- Neighbors: Lazio, Marche, and Tuscany
- Categories: region of Italy and locality
- Location: Central Italy, Italy, Europe
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Latitude of center
42.9659° or 42° 57′ 57″ northLongitude of center
12.4902° or 12° 29′ 25″ eastPopulation
859,000Elevation
355 metres (1,165 feet)OpenStreetMap ID
node 1781917337OpenStreetMap feature
place=state
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Umbria” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Umbrië”
- Albanian: “Umbria”
- Amharic: “ኡምብሪያ”
- Arabic: “أمبرية”
- Arabic: “أُمبِرية”
- Arabic: “أومبريا”
- Aragonese: “Umbría”
- Armenian: “Ումբրիա”
- Arpitan: “Ombria”
- Arpitan: “Ombrie”
- Asturian: “Umbria”
- Asturian: “Umbría”
- Azerbaijani: “Umbriya”
- Balinese: “Umbria”
- Basque: “Umbria”
- Belarusian: “Умбрыя”
- Bosnian: “Umbrija”
- Breton: “Umbria”
- Bulgarian: “Умбрия”
- Catalan: “Úmbria”
- Cebuano: “Umbria”
- Central Bikol: “Umbria”
- Central Kurdish: “ئومبریا”
- Chechen: “Умбри”
- Chinese: “Umbria”
- Chinese: “翁布利亞”
- Chinese: “翁布里亚”
- Chinese: “翁布里亚大区”
- Chuvash: “Умбрия”
- Cornish: “Umbri”
- Corsican: “Umbria”
- Crimean Tatar: “Umbriya”
- Croatian: “Umbrija”
- Czech: “Umbrie”
- Danish: “Umbria”
- Dimli (individual language): “Umbriya”
- Dutch: “Umbrië”
- Egyptian Arabic: “اومبريا”
- Esperanto: “Umbrio”
- Estonian: “Umbria”
- Finnish: “Umbria”
- French: “Ombrie”
- Friulian: “Umbrie”
- Galician: “Umbria”
- Galician: “Umbría”
- Georgian: “უმბრია”
- German: “Umbrien”
- Greek: “Ούμπρια”
- Guarani: “Umbiría”
- Hakka Chinese: “Umbria”
- Hakka Chinese: “Vung-pu-lî-â”
- Hebrew: “אומבריה”
- Hungarian: “Umbria”
- Icelandic: “Úmbría”
- Ido: “Umbria”
- Indonesian: “Umbra”
- Indonesian: “Umbria”
- Interlingua: “Umbria”
- Irish: “Umbria”
- Italian: “Regione Umbria”
- Italian: “Umbria”
- Japanese: “ウンブリア州”
- Javanese: “Umbria”
- Kazakh: “Умбрия”
- Korean: “움브리아 주”
- Korean: “움브리아”
- Korean: “움브리아주”
- Kurdish: “Umbriya”
- Ladin: “Umbria”
- Ladino: “Umbria”
- Latin: “Umbria”
- Latin: “Urbinum”
- Latvian: “Umbrija”
- Ligurian: “Umbïa”
- Ligurian: “Umbria”
- Limburgan: “Umbrië”
- Lithuanian: “Umbrija”
- Lombard: “Ombria”
- Lombard: “Umbria”
- Luxembourgish: “Umbrien”
- Macedo-Romanian: “Umbria”
- Macedonian: “Умбрија”
- Malay: “Umbria”
- Maltese: “Umbria”
- Marathi: “अंब्रिया”
- Mazanderani: “اومبریا”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Umbria”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Umbria”
- Mingrelian: “უმბრია”
- Neapolitan: “Umbria”
- Northern Frisian: “Umbrien”
- Northern Sami: “Umbria”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Umbria”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Umbria”
- Norwegian: “Umbria”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Ómbria”
- Ossetian: “Умбри”
- Pampanga: “Umbria”
- Panjabi: “ਊਂਬਰੀਆ”
- Panjabi: “ਅੰਬਰੀਆ”
- Papiamento: “Umbria”
- Persian: “اومبریا”
- Piemontese: “Umbria”
- Polish: “Umbria”
- Portuguese: “Úmbria”
- Quechua: “Umbria”
- Romanian: “Umbria”
- Russian: “Умбрия”
- Sardinian: “Ùmbria”
- Scots: “Umbrie”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Umbria”
- Serbian: “Умбрија”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Umbrija”
- Sicilian: “Umbria”
- Slovak: “Umbria”
- Slovenian: “Umbrija”
- Spanish: “Región de Umbría”
- Spanish: “Umbria”
- Spanish: “Umbría”
- Swahili: “Umbria”
- Swedish: “Umbrien”
- Swiss German: “Umbrie”
- Swiss German: “Umbrien”
- Tagalog: “Umbria”
- Tatar: “Умбрия”
- Thai: “แคว้นอุมเบรีย”
- Tosk Albanian: “Umbrien”
- Turkish: “Umbria Özerk Bölgesi”
- Turkish: “Umbria”
- Ukrainian: “Умбрія”
- Urdu: “امبریا”
- Venetian: “Onbria”
- Venetian: “Ùnbria”
- Vietnamese: “Umbria”
- Vlaams: “Umbrië”
- Waray (Philippines): “Umbria”
- Welsh: “Umbria”
- Western Frisian: “Umbrje”
- Western Panjabi: “صوبہ امبریا”
- Wu Chinese: “翁布里亚大区”
- Yue Chinese: “翁布利亞”
- “ma lili Unpija”
- “ma lili Unpila”
- “ma Unpija”
- “ma Unpila”
- “Ónbria”
- “Umbrie”
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