Italy’s ‘unspoilt green heart’ is home to vineyards and some of the country’s best-preserved medieval towns
Less visited than neighbouring Tuscany, Umbria is “Italy’s unspoilt green heart”. Much of the region “consists of little but vineyards, olive groves and farms”, making for a “bucolic” landscape that is “freckled” with some of the country’s best-preserved medieval towns. And nowhere is more peaceful and idyllic than Umbria’s south, says Annabelle Thorpe in The Times. You can easily drive across it from Tuscany to Le Marche in a few hours, but you could spend much longer, stopping off in some of the excellent restaurants and hotels you’ll pass along the way. And there’s a real treat at the end – the Valnerina, perhaps the most beautiful of all Umbria’s mountain valleys.
