Norcia

Still into ancient and very well preserved heart-shaped town-walls, Norcia is one of the most famous tourist resort of Umbria. As a pearl of the Sybilline Mountains National Park, it has become the most important point of articulation among Umbria, Marches and Lazio, especially after the very recent opening of the tunnel of St. Benedict (under the pass of Forca Canapine) and the tunnel of Forca di Cerro. Today, reaching the main centres of Umbria (as Assisi, Spoleto, Perugia, Terni) but also Ascoli PIceno and the surrounding artistic cities, as well the Adriatic Sea with its beautiful and pleasant shores, is easy and quick. Norcia is a town for all seasons and it's renowned for its gastronomy. Here, nature and culture represent an inseparable binomial and the history of the territory is often interlaced with the history of men and with the traces they have left. Norcia is also a...