Where do you run among the vineyards in Italy? In Piedmont in Santo Stefano in Belbo (Cn) there is the Moscato Trail, among the vineyards of the Langhe, a Unesco heritage site. The Chianti Classico Ecomarathon starts from the spectacular Castello di Brolio and...

"Buy yourself a piece of land", it was once said. Having it done a few years ago, especially if there was a vineyard above it, we would have made the deal of our lives. This can be seen from a survey by Wine News which shows that the prices of some Italian vineyards...

There are many places to go trekking in Umbria, but one of the best is 'Il cammino dei borghi silenti' or, in English, 'a walk through quiet hamlets.' This is a circular walk of about 90 km on mostly unpaved tracks winding through woods of holm oak and chestnut trees,...

Until a few years ago the region of Umbria was unknown to most people living outiside Italy.   Tuscany was often called Chiantishire because of the many foreigners who had homes there.    Then Umbria began to attract newspapers, for example...

In 1278 Giovanni and Nicola Pisano inserted grape harvest scenes in the Fontana Maggiore in Perugia's Piazza IV Novembre. And at the end of the 15th century, Orvieto's wine was so highly prized that for the frescoes in the cathedral, the painter Luca Signorelli asked...

Umbria was inhabited to the east of the Tiber by the Umbrians, and to the west by the Etruscans. Terni was founded in 672 B.C. while Orvieto, Velz-na (later Volsinii), the oldest and most flourishing Etruscan city, whose name seems to etymologically recall the word...