An essential guide to Umbria covering the region's top attractions and hotels, plus recommendations on eating out, from Tim Jepson, our destination expert. A few years ago, Umbria was known, if at all ...

Umbria, which shares a border with the well-known regions of Tuscany and Lazio, is sometimes described as "undiscovered," which for such a beautiful and conveniently located part of Italy should also ...

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 ...

ASSISI, Italy — A hilly patchwork of yellow and green Umbrian fields unfolded on both sides of the road as I zipped around hairpin turns in my little red Fiat, feeling every bit the race-car driver.

Less visited than neighbouring Tuscany, Umbria is “Italy’s unspoilt green heart”. Much of the region “consists of little but vineyards, olive groves and farms”, making for a “bucolic” landscape that ...