Quiet Umbria Surges with Spirit

Standing at an overlook at Orvieto’s hidden Piazza San Giovenale with only a neighborhood cat vying for the spectacular view, I catch a late-afternoon sun dripping across Umbria’s rolling hills, a pastoral scene lifted from the background of a 15th-century Perugino painting.

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