The Valtiberina, Also Known As Upper Tiber Valley, Is The Ideal Place To Spend Your Holidays in An Atmosphere Of Art History And Medieval Culture.

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The district of Upper Tiber Valley is located in the northern part of Umbria, bordering Tuscany and Marche regions with which it has always been intense exchanges. The area is traversed throughout its length, ie about 50 km from the river Tiber, which is the fertility of his land. The Upper Tiber Valley includes eight municipalities: Città di Castello, Citerna, Lisciano Niccone, Montone, Monte Santa Maria Tiberina, Pietralunga, St. Justin and Umbertide. CITTA 'DI CASTELLO main center of Upper Tiber Valley, differs from the other cities of Umbria for its lowland location and its role mainly Renaissance by the Duke of Calves. PALACE OF POSDESTA 'the first half of '300, by Angelo da Orvieto - the same architect of the Palazzo dei Consoli Gubbio - retains the original prospectus Gothic on the side, while Piazza Matteotti shows baroque facade of 1686. TOWN HALL was built in Gothic style between 1332 and 1338 and designed by Angelo da Orvieto and still home town, has an impressive atrium with vaulted ceilings and elegant mullioned windows. CATHEDRAL founded in the eleventh century, radically transformed in the fourteenth century, its present appearance dates from the years 1466-1529; noteworthy are the large crypt beneath the bell tower and a cylindrical base of influence in Ravenna. MUSEUM OF THE CATHEDRAL among the largest museums of sacred art, houses, among other works, the early Christian Treasury Canoscio (sixth century), a frontal embossed silver of the twelfth century and paintings of Pinturicchio and Rosso Fiorentino. CHURCH OF SAN DOMENICO vast hall was completed in 1424, with unfinished facade and arched portal on the left side, houses paintings by Raphael and Signorelli, there are frescoes of the fifteenth century. CHURCH OF SAINT FRANCIS externally still Gothic, with polygonal apses of 1273, but internally restructured in the early eighteenth century, it was performed The Marriage of the Virgin by Raphael. Pinacoteca Comunale second most important museum in Umbria - both as host and as a home collection housed - is housed within the Palazzo Vitelli alla Cannoniera century and contains works by Raphael, Signorelli and Domenico Ghirlandaio, in addition to those artists of the Umbrian school, Tuscany and Marche. Burri Collection hosted in the town of Palazzo Albizzini and that device Ex Drying of Tobacco, includes over 250 works of contemporary art donated by Maestro Alberto Burri to the city. UMBRA CURTAIN includes weaving workshop founded in 1909 by the will of the philanthropist Alice Baroness Franchetti and a collection of tools and articles on the art of weaving. CENTRE OF POPULAR Tradition has two miles south of the city, rehabilitation of environments and activities typical of the rural world and is located in the farmhouse overlooking Villa Capelletti, building housing, in turn, an interesting collection iron-modeling. RAM Among the most beautiful villages in Italy, the medieval town, beautifully intact at 482 m height, was home of the leader arm Fortinbras, one of the most famous mercenary captains of the fifteenth century. MUNICIPAL MUSEUM housed in what were the church and convent of St. Francis, as well as wooden furniture, textiles and paintings - among which those of Bartolomeo Caporali - also includes a rare group of wooden Deposition of about 1260. ETHNOGRAPHIC MUSEUM "THE TALKING DRUM" kept in the cloister of San Francesco, features over 600 items of material culture from Africa Eastern Europe. COLLEGIATE built in 300, but restored in the eighteenth century, contains a Last Supper by D. Calvaert; here on Easter Monday is exposed to the Holy Thorn, a precious relic donated to RAM by the son of Fortinbras arm. ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY OF Coloti a few miles from Mutton is one of the facilities for observation of celestial phenomena most advanced in Italy. CITERNA With its 480 m height, is a true panoramic terrace on the High Tiber Valley and the nearby hills of Tuscany, preserves part of the perimeter wall and the remains of the fifteenth century fortress of the fourteenth century. CHURCH OF SAINT FRANCIS rebuilt in the sixteenth on a previous building, houses, besides school paintings by Signorelli, and Raffaellino Pomarancio of the Hill, a terracotta Madonna and Child recently attributed to Donatello. THE CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL built in 1680, a Madonna and Child in glazed terracotta by Giovanni della Robbia school and a Crucifixion Pomarancio.
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