The beautiful cities of the peaceful and charming Umbria.. Trip to Italy

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I came several times in Umbria and many others I have passed directly to other regions.
As a child I came twice in as many school trips. At that time Perugia was the destination of choice for small and Mirabilandia Gardeland not yet exist and the "City of Sunday" was the theme park more easily accessible from much of Italy. It was wonderful to us children calarci in this fantasy world where among other things we could play in a fort in the far west, to observe the reproduction of a space-based missile early expedition, enter the mouth of huge concrete monsters walking in revolving galleries, see the fairytale castle, cross a suspension bridge. The entrance of the park were placed tanks, machine guns and planes during the war with which it was possible to play and even an old steam locomotive. In one of these organized tours we went to see the Perugina factory and even this was a surprising thing to us children, seeing how they were produced delicacies such as chocolates and candy Rossana. In a row while walking on a catwalk intrigued me a great machine that kneaded a huge candy was then subsequently divided into hundreds of pieces and packaged.
After many time in the mid 80s, going with a friend from Perugia went back up out of curiosity on the hill overlooking the city where is located the playground but not entered. Shortly after, however, returned to Umbria with a couple of friends and on this occasion we entered the park. Either because I was no longer a child is because he had seen Big Ben, the "City of Sunday," she appeared to be very disappointing, no longer offered the magic of old and its structures so poor and not very spectacular to my eyes made her pathetic. During this short tour we stopped in Assisi for a few minutes before the Church of St. Francis, then drive to Terni. The idea was to see the waterfall Marmore but unfortunately was turned off. The Marmore an artificial waterfall are easily seen only at certain times of the year and at certain times.
In the mid-90s arrived in Umbria with a friend visiting for the first time the historical center of Perugia, with its large square overlooked by face to face in the Town Hall and the Cathedral and the beautiful fountain at the center closed for the occasion by a glass envelope, because in the restructuring. The center of Perugia, like many Umbrian towns located on top of a hill but the peculiar thing is that you can get even with outdoor escalator after leaving the car at the parking lot. From the capital we went to nearby Assisi visiting the Church of San Francesco that there would be little affected by a violent earthquake that would destroy part of the time. We also visited the medieval town center with Roman archaeological traces, the Church of Santa Chiara and on a hill not far away the Hermitage of the Carceri, a place of spiritual retreat Franciscan. Continuing through Gubbio and its beautiful building with a staircase.
Perugia, I went back recently with Dorina, host of friends. With them came back in the old town, this time not with escalators that so surprised me in the 90s but with a modern minimetro just opened and only one of its kind in Europe. These are small wagons computerized without a driver back on the hill from the parking lot of cars to the city center. Near the little station of arrival, I saw with pleasure the beautiful square this time as night and his liberated from its fountain glass. We walked the Corso Vannucci lined with medieval palaces and Renaissance Italy to Piazza that hides beneath whether the remains of a fortress in which we enter not only to visit its exhibitions but also to take the escalators that lead down a surprise!
Prior to visiting the center in the morning we did a short tour around that allowed me, among other things return to Assisi to pray in the Church of St. Francis and a walk in the streets of the city. Assisi is preceded downstream from Santa Maria degli Angeli in a large church where he finds a much smaller and essential to the period of Saint Francis as well as a poor chapel that commemorates the place where the saint died. Leaving the area we headed to Assisi to Spello, considered by some as the medieval town center of Italy. Retains an ancient walled town and a couple of churches works of Pinturicchio. After a few km we did stop at Foligno to see the main square with its town tower under restoration for years after the collapse caused by the violent earthquake that struck this area in the 90s.
Umbria, considered the heart of Italy, is an interior region, it faces the sea but in it down along Lake Trasimeno that every time you are going to Perugia. On the latter occasion I was able to focus more on the lake, visiting among other things, its most important center, the walled Castiglione del Lago Around Panicarola we passed through, and stop in Panicale Casiglion Fosco, a small village with an ancient round tower .
In Umbria were also twice in Orvieto, an ancient city that affects primarily for its magnificent polychrome cathedral and the Well of St. Patrick's odd that is accessed via a staircase. The first time I came here was during a tourist trip as a kid and the second for work in '90 when I attended as a journalist at the press conference of presentation of an international tennis tournament. On the latter occasion the meal was offered by the organization in a beautiful medieval hall owned by the town a short walk from the Duomo.