Spoleto
(40.000 inhabitants)
Spoleto Spoleto was one of those sleepy Umbrian hill towns until, in 1958, Italian-American composer Giancarlo Menotti changed everything. For a while, Spoleto saw its tourist season peak for only 10 days from the end of June to the beginning of July during its immensely popular Spoleto Festival, when this otherwise quiet town takes centre stage for an international parade of drama, music, opera and dance. So many people have discovered the town via the festival that it’s become a popular destination for most of the year.
Even outside the festival season, Spoleto has enough museums, Roman ruins, wanderable streets and vistas to keep you busy for a day of two.
The surrounding Umbra Valley is a masterpiece of well over two thousand years of agriculture practice. From the Umbrian tribes to the Romans and farmers in the medieval period, the Vale di Spoleto, as it was known then, has been drained using a intricate system of hydraulics and agriculture techniques
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