Traveling across the green landscapes of Umbria. Trip to central Italy

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Our journey begins in Citta di Castello, on the border with Tuscany, the medieval town flavor with the walls well preserved. Boundless in Tuscany, in the distance you can already see the lake Trasimeno and arrive in Cortona, where both the Duomo is the Fortezza Medici are closed for restoration. Next stop at the lake at Passignano sul Trasimeno, the parking meter gives us an hour and a half, take the boat and go island more, walking tour of the island between powder and a little 'neglect. Continue in the direction of Assisi. Find a bed in a private home near Santa Maria degli Angeli, just below Assisi, handy the next day to climb on the famous Brick.
Resplendent in his mystical aura Assisi, the Basilica enchants us as the morning breeze cools the air. After visiting all the churches of Assisi, we go up to the Rocca Maggiore and the picturesque Lesser long stairways between stone houses and oleanders, there would also be a path to the hermitage of the Carceri, but we drive. Here is absolute calm. Stop in Gubbio, to taste the "growth", a kind of piadina really good. Dinner at the farmhouse.
Stop in Spello, medieval village perched on a hill, it seems to be in another era. "Hello, Umbria green, and you source of pure Clitumno god!" It echoes in the air when we go down Carducci's ode to refresh the sources of Clitumno, spectacular landscapes, romantic and refined even further by the presence of so many ducklings. Spoleto instead seems a bit 'chaotic, but there is the Festival of Two Worlds, the stage takes visibility to the Duomo, beautiful to look at the Casa Romana. In the afternoon north and stopped in Urbino, we find a farm ( "the forest") just outside the city but surrounded by green