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Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By Albert Stumm, The Associated Press ASSISI, ITALY — A hilly patchwork of yellow and green Umbrian fields unfolded on both sides of the road as I zipped ...

Reporting from Civitella, Italy — The anonymous stone building on the outskirts of Civitella, my Umbrian hilltop village, was a mystery to me. Every time I drove past, it was shut up and seemingly ...

In terms of tourism, Umbria seems to suffer the misfortune of sitting in the metaphorical shadow of Tuscany, its neighbor due west. Why? Compared to Tuscany, Umbria falls short along several ...

Cradled between Tuscany, Lazio, and Le Marche, Umbria is often called Italy’s green heart—not only for its rolling hills, but for the quiet beauty and authenticity it offers. With no coastline and ...

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To mangle a familiar quotation from Tolstoy, all regions of Italy are different, but each is Italian in its own particular way. Suppose the Italian regions were women (humor me here). Lombardia would ...