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Gubbio
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GUBBIO
is the most thoroughly medieval of the Umbrian towns, an immediately likable place that's hanging onto its charm despite an ever-increasing influx of tourists. The streets are picture-book pretty, with houses of rosy-pink stone and seas of orange-tiled roofs; the setting is equally gorgeous with the forest-clad mountains of the Apennines rearing up behind. A broad and largely unspoilt plain stretches out in front of the town, and the whole ensemble - especially on grey, windswept days - maintains Gubbio's tough, mountain outpost atmosphere.
A powerful medieval commune, and always important as the gateway to Ravenna and the Adriatic (it was a key point on the Roman Via Flaminia), these days it's a town apart, not really part of Umbria, Tuscany or Marche - the reason it's been spared the onslaught of the twentieth century and why getting here can be tricky.
Gubbio is easiest approached by
bus
from CittA di Castello or Perugia on the lovely cross-country SS298
road
. The nearest
train station
is at Fossato di Vico, 19km south on the Rome-Foligno-Ancona line; there are ten connecting shuttle buses to Gubbio from Monday to Saturday, six on Sundays. Other useful information
for tourists (each section contains more specific sub-sections): |
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Italy,
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