Umbertide

Umbertide - Hermitage of Montecorona

Just come out of Umbertide, direction Perugia, after 4 km you arrive at the abbey of San Salvatore of Montecorona. It would have been to found St. Romuald in the eleventh century, the monastery of Monte St. Salvatore Cuto. The ancient crypt basement is of great artistic value, historical and cultural. The upper church with three aisles, was consecrated in 1105 and remains of frescoes and a wooden well made. Interestingly, circular and octagonal bell tower, perhaps ancient defense tower, the clock was recently restored. Abbey you can climb to 705 meters of the Hermitage, along a road surrounded by green patches of beech and chestnut trees and dotted with shrines. In ancient Abbey, the Hermitage was connected by a path known as "the mattonata", about 2 feet wide and paved with blocks of dry sandstone, natural re-opened for use for walking. The Hermitage is an ancient monastery, which dates back to the sixteenth century by the fathers and Camaldolese Coronesi. Continuing on the same road you can admire the ancient village of Santa Giuliana, highly suggestive of an unknown construction date (the first records date back to 1362). Continuing to Perugia meets Valenzina Castle, of which we have little information. At about 3 km, diverting to Pierantonio, you can see the castle Ascagnano whose name seems to derive from Ascani, descendants of Aeneas. Do not know the date of its foundation (the first records date back to 1370). Taking finally the Bog Road - direction Perugia, can be admired in all its majesty, on a spur on the right road, the castle of Antognolla place in Perugia area but close to that of the City of Umbertide. It is not known the time of construction of the primitive castle, but it seems that in this place existed, since 1174, a Benedictine monastery.