umbria

Umbria is in the very center of peninsular Italy, and is the only landlocked regione on the peninsula. Situated along the Appennines, it’s a region of dramatic mountains, valleys, and historic towns tucked away from much of the sweep of Italian history. Its highest point is Monte Vettore on the border with Marche at 8126ft, its lowest is at 315ft in the gently rolling plains of the Tiber valley.

Home to Perugia, Assisi (hometown of St. Francis, namesake of the late Pope), Orvieto and Spoleto.

Umbria is the historical homeland of the Umbri, a rural hillfolk who were absorbed by the expanding Romans in the third century BC, as Rome defeated the Samnites and Etruscans, then flung the Via Flaminia over the Apennines from Rome to Rimini on the Adriatic coast, establishing full control over the Umbrans and Umbria.

Perugia, unfortunately, sided with Marc Antony during the Roman Civil War (40BC) and was flattened by Octavian’s forces. The region was part of the core territory of the Roman Empire until its fall in the 5th century AD, then became a contested borderland between the Ostrogoths and Byzantines, then was absorbed by the Lombard Kingdom of northern Italy. When Charlemagne conquered the Lombards, he granted large parts of Umbria to the Pope, and the area became part of the Papal States until the Napoleonic reorganization of Italy in the early 1800’s. In the late 19th century, Umbria was absorbed into the consolidating Italian state during the Risorgimento.

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