This site provides a detailed guide to the art and history of the Umbrian cities based on what you can actually still see and experience. I am still building it, so only about half of the cities I intend to cover are complete, but I am continually adding more pages.  Click on the first link above to see if the places that interest you are there yet. 

I have planned one or more walks around each city, with links to more detailed pages on individual monuments and, from there, to individual artists whose work you can still see.   Every Italian city has its own saints, and I have links to the saints that protect each of the cities that I describe.

I download the site to my iPad using Sitesucker, which makes it into an off-line guide.  I hope that you enjoy using it, and would be grateful for feedback, particularly if you find errors or problems - see the contacts link above.

About Umbria

Umbria is the most central region of Italy.  It took on its present boundaries in 1927, at which point it was divided into two provinces:

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   ✴Perugia, the regional capital in the north, is a bustling university city with great museums and lots of interesting monuments.
   

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   ✴Terni, the provincial capital in the south, is a modern city with excellent transport links, a new museum complex and a number of monuments that have survived the ravages of industrialisation and the bombardment of World War II.
   

In early Christian times it contained some 20 diocese: some, like Perugia and Terni, are bustling cities but others are now small towns.  Each has its own character and culture, and all are rewarding places to visit.

The best English guide to the region is:

Ian Campbell Ross, “Umbria: A Cultural History”: the 1996 edition is available on Amazon, but there is a lovely new edition (2012) from Volumnia Editrice, Perugia.