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TERRITORY:
Umbria is called il cuore verde d’Italia (Italy’s green heart) and holidays umbria in fact its landscape of rolling mountains and sweet hills covered with flowers is a beautiful attraction. This holidays umbria region also offers many possibilities for agriturismo (holidays in farm accomodation). Almost all the cities are unspoiled and have preserved their medieval centres.

PLACES TO SEE:
Perugia: Piazza IV Novembre: the cathedral; Fontana Maggiore; Palazzo dei Priori; Collegio del Cambio; Oratorio di San Bernardino; Chiesa di San Francesco al Prato; Pozzo Etrusco; Cappella di San Severo; Arco d’Augusto; Chiesa di Sant’Agostino; Chiesa di Sant’Angelo; Porta Sant’Angelo; Giardini Carducci; Rocca Paolina; Porta San Pietro; Ipogeo dei Volumi.
Assisi: Basilica di San Francesco,comprising two churches; Foro Romano; Tempio di Minerva; Pinacoteca Comunale; Chiesa di Santa Maria Maggiore; Basilica di Santa Chiara; Rocca Maggiore; Eremo delle Carceri; Basilica di Santa Maria degli Angeli.
Gubbio: Piazza Grande: Palazzo dei Consoli, Museo Civico, Palazzo Pretorio, Palazzo Ducale; Fontana dei Pazzi; Teatro Romano; Basilica di Sant’Ubaldo.

REGIONAL CUISINES:
Very popular in Umbria is the tartufo nero ( black truffle ) holidays umbria which is used in sauces, pasta and rice dishes. Umbria’s funghi porcini ( a type of mushroom) are delicious and very famous all over Italy.
A typical dish is strangozzi, holidays umbria heavy sqare-sized pasta and porchetta, a whole roast piglet stuffed with rosemary. Among the wines try the Sagrantino di Montefalco. And in the end taste some Baci Perugina, chocolate-coated hezelnuts that made Perugia holidays umbria the capital of chocolate.

TRADITIONAL FESTIVITIES:
San Francesco’s feast is held in Assisi on 3-4 October while on the first wek of may the Festa di Calendimaggio celebrates the coming of spring in perky medieval fashion. In Gubbio on 15th May takes place the holidays umbria Corsa dei Ceri (Candles Race) to commemorate the patron Sant’Ubaldo: three teams, each carrying a cero( an enormous candle) race through the city’s streets.

This page has been made up for those who need some information before they undertake a trip to our marvellous country. We tried to holidays umbria include the most necessary information on holidays umbria this site. Though every traveller has his individual necessaries, the information given below might be quite helpful. Just navigate a bit in our different ‘drawers’ and have fun. If you don’t find what you are looking for or holidays umbria what you need – just send us an e-mail and our answer will be on your desk in no time.

the unusual gift
It doesn’t matter whether you are looking holidays umbria for something special to bring home from your holiday or you need an uncommon gift for somebody dear – take a stroll in our gallery. Beside oil paintings and ceramics, mosaic work and artistically painted old household ware, you might want to purchase a bottle of wine from vintages gone for decades already, indicating your year of birth or other memorable occasions holidays umbria in your life. These bottles are all single items and mend for you showcase rather than consumption.

Post Office
Post offices are open weekly from 08:20am – 05:30pm, Saturday from 08:20am – 01:00pm, Sundays and bank holidays closed. Post offices at airports or the main office in large cities are often open 24 hours a holidays umbria day, seven days a week, while post offices in small villages are open only in the mornings from 08:20am – 01:00pm (last Saturday of the month open until 12:00am only). In bigger post offices one can change money.

Banks
Opening hours vary holidays umbria from bank to bank. To make sure to be in time, we advise to observe the following core-time: from Monday to Friday from 08:30am – 01:00pm and 03:00pm – 04:00pm. Banks usually remain closed on Saturdays, Sundays and bank holidays holidays umbria if not at international airports.

Shops
All type of shops are usually open from holidays umbria Monday to Saturday from 09:00am – 12:30am and 04:00pm – 07:00pm. Depending on the typology of the shop, they usually close one afternoon during the week. During the high season, everybody closes on Saturday afternoon and stay open during the week.

Stamps
Stamps may be purchased only at tobacco shops and at the post office. If you are not sure about the correct postage, we highly recommend in going to the post office to send your mail, especially mail sent via ‘airmail’. Letters and postcards with insufficient postage will not be returned to sender, holidays umbria but sent via surface mail (which will take weeks if not months!!).

Church service
A Roman Catholic Mass in English is holidays umbria celebrated every Saturday evening in Umbria at 05:00pm at ‘Santa Maria del Fiore’ church. On Sunday and bank holidays the mass is held at 10:00am at the chapel of San Giovanni di Dio, located in Borgo Ognissanti n°16.

Phone services
Public telephones are available throughout Italy. holidays umbria In general, there are two different types:
a) the ones which accept payment only by card, using the pre-paid phone cards, the phone credit card, the ‘Call IT’ card and the commercial credit cards,
b) the coin-box phones, accepting coins of €0,10, €0,20, 0,50 and €1,00 which usually in addition take the pre-paid phone card as well, the most comfortable way of using the phones. To buy one, go to the next newsstand, bar, post office or tobacco shop and ask for ‘una scheda telefonica’ – holidays umbria pronounced "oona skeda telefonica’, which are available in denominations of €2,50, €5,00 or €10,00. Before inserting the card into the designated slot, bend the marked corner and rip it off. While the card is inserted, the display tells you your credit and allows you to control the expenses

As of June ’98, it’s mandatory to holidays umbria include the area code even dialing a local number. To call abroad from a private or public phone from Italy, you simply dial:
1. the international code (00)
2. the country code
3. the are code
4. the phone number
For example to call a number in Australia from Italy, dial 00 61 3 …..

Keep in mind, that calling Italy from abroad it is absolutely necessary to dial the "0" in front of the area code after holidays umbria having dialled the country code for Italy, for instance to call our office: 0039 0577 322757!!!

Emergency calls and useful numbers in Italy

113 - emergency (please use this number in emergency or danger only, not for information!!!)
112 - Carabinieri (military police)
115 - fire-brigade
118 - first aid
170 - Operator assisted international calls; this holidays umbria service operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week even on bank holidays and provides the service of booking and executing an international phone call with assistance of an English speaking operator, placing a reverse charge call, translating on-line (English, German, French, Arabian) and connecting to Inmarsat terminals for calls to means of transport in navigation.
172 - the service 'Country direct' allows the client to call the country he wants to speak to with assistance in holidays umbria his mother language. This kind of service is available either holidays umbria from public and private phones, dailing 172 to be followed by the access code indicating the country (four digits - NOT THE COUNTRY CODE!!) An operator of the selected country will answer your call to give you the information needed. Get the country access code before you leave your country or, once arrived in Italy, dial
176 - International Information Service: supplies information in Italian and in English regarding the following:
- phone numbers of holidays umbria subscribers outside Italy
- international country and area codes
- access number to Call-it, Country Direct
1109 - information about opening times of museums and galleries
Tourist information offices
In even small towns nowadays one can find a tourist information board, usually organized by the holidays umbria local authorities and very often accommodated in the municipal office - look out for the sign "Pro Loco". Those ones organized by the district are called "Azienda di promozione turistica - A.P.T" and even if they are not right in the municipal office, they are still very centrally located. The staff of both usually speaks at least English if not other languages as well. Below please find the most important addresses:

holidays umbria