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Country
  
Italy

Elevation
  
247 m (810 ft)

Time zone
  
CET (UTC+1)

Province
  
Province of Perugia

Postal code
  
06019

Dialling code
  
075

Province / Metropolitan city
  
Perugia (PG)

Demonym(s)
  
Umbertidesi

Area
  
200 km²

Local time
  
Friday 5:32 AM

Region
  
Umbria

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Frazioni
  
Badia, Calzolaro, Castelvecchio, Comunaglia, Leoncini, Mita, Molino Vitelli, Montecastelli, Niccone, Pierantonio, Polgeto, Preggio, Spedalicchio

Weather
  
5°C, Wind N at 5 km/h, 87% Humidity

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Umbertide is a town and comune (township) of Italy, in the province of Perugia in northwestern Umbria, at the confluence of the Reggia river and the Tiber. It is 30 km (19 mi) North of Perugia and 20 km (12 mi) South of Città di Castello. With 16,890 inhabitants according to the 2011 census, Umbertide is one of the larger towns of Umbria; and basically flat, which is relatively unusual for the region. It is an important regional industrial center producing machine tools, farm machinery, textiles, packaging material, and ceramics.

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Map of 06019 Umbertide, Province of Perugia, Italy

History

Umbertide or the surrounding area was inhabited in pre-Roman and Roman times. At the top of Monte Acuto has been discovered an umbrian fortification ("castelliere"). The nineteenth‑century archaeologist Mariano Guardabassi even attributed a small building at Lame, about 1 km from the center of the modern town, to the Etruscans, although this is by no means certain The Roman town of Pitulum Mergens, destroyed by Totila in the mid-6th century, may account for Roman remains in S. Maria delle Sette. In its present incarnation, Umbertide was founded in the 8th or 10th century, depending on the scholar; its original name was Fratta, and it received its present name in 1863 in honor of then Crown Prince Umberto and of Uberto or Umberto margrave of Tuscany, whose four sons, Adalberto, Ingilberto, Benedetto o Bonifacio, according to tradition, rebuilt the town in 796 on the ruins of Pitulum Mergens.

Main sights

Although there are remains of the medieval walls, a few medieval houses, and part of the Rocca di Umbertide, or citadel, many of Umbertide's best monuments are of later periods.

  • Churches
  • Santa Maria della Reggia is the main church in town, a collegiate church often referred to simply as the Collegiata: it is an octagonal 16th century brick building topped by an elegant cupola, housing a few paintings by Niccolò Circignani.
  • Santa Maria della Pietà with the attractive funerary chapel of the counts of Sorbello, is late medieval and Renaissance church.
  • Santa Croce is a 17th‑century church, now housing a painting gallery, including a Deposition by Luca Signorelli.
  • San Francesco is the largest church, built in Gothic architecture: in the early 21st century it was undergoing a major restoration that promised to be protracted.
  • Cristo Risorto twentieth‑century church.

    • Beyond the city limits, the township's principal monuments are:

  • Castle of Civitella Ranieri, 5 km (3 mi) NE, one of the best-preserved medieval fortresses in Umbria.
  • Abbey of S. Salvatore di Montecorona 4 km (2.5 mi) S, which has a beautiful eleventh‑century crypt with early Romanesque capitals and naïve 18th century painted ceilings.
  • Castle of Polgeto, a medieval structure
  • Abbey church of S. Bartolomeo de' Fossi, sited on a sharp ridge with distant views on either side
  • Borgo Santa Giuliana: a walled medieval village of

    • References

    Umbertide Wikipedia
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