Links
For more information about Umbria try: http://www.umbriabest.com/index.htm http://www.umbriatourism.com/ and also http://www.umbria.org/eng/default.asp
For suggested travel itineraries in Umbria: http://www.bellaumbria.net/itinerari_eng.htm
For information on Perugia: http://www.perugiaonline.com/, on Umbertide (including a panoramic view of the historic centre): http://www.comune.umbertide.it/ and on Assisi: http://www.assisionline.com/ and St Francis of Assisi: http://www.sanfrancescoassisi.org/
Information on Florence: http://www.aboutflorence.com/
Information on Umbertide: http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/Europe/Italy/Umbria/Perugia/Umbertide/Umbertide/hom e.html
and on churches in Umbertide: http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/Europe/Italy/Umbria/Perugia/Umbertide/Umbertide/churc hes/home.html
Language courses in Perugia: http://www.comitatolinguistico.com/ and http://www.unistrapg.it/english/
National and Regional parks in Umbria: http://www.parks.it/regione.umbria/index.html and hiking: http://www.cai.it/index.jsp
Safari park for kids near Perugia: http://www.parcodelsole.com/
Website for Italy’s museum network, with news of events and exhibitions: http://www.sistemamuseo.it/
Umbria film festival: http://www.umbriafilmfestival.com/
Umbria jazz festival: winter season http://ujw14.umbriajazz.com/ and summer season http://www.umbriajazz.com/canale.asp
Classical Music festivals: at Preggio http://www.preggiofestival.org and Spoleto http://www.spoletofestival.it/
Umbrian food and wine: http://english.umbriadoc.com/
Golf near Perugia: http://www.golfclubperugia.it/
Perugia University’s two Observatories (one of which is close to Casa Nova, in the hills behind Montone) with links to the sites of various local astronomical groups: http://astro.fisica.unipg.it/
To check the weather in Perugia on the BBC’s 5 day forecast: http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/5day.shtml?world=4764
or for a more detailed site giving you both forecasts and past weather patterns at Perugia: http://www.wunderground.com/global/stations/16181.html
weather at Umbertide http://www.fallingrain.com/world/IT/0/Umbertide.html and http://www.wunderground.com/weatherstation/WXDailyHistory.asp?ID=IPGUMBER1&day=11&year=2006&month=1&graphspan=year
weather at Citta di castello: http://www.fallingrain.com/world/IT/0/Citta_di_Castello.html
our closest weather station, at Calzolaro, just the other side of our hill: http://www.fallingrain.com/world/IT/0/Calzolaro.html
Travel information:
http://www.fcu.it – site of the Ferrovia Centrale Umbria (a private railway that links Niccone & Umbertide with cities to the North and South)
http://www.trenitalia.it – principal website of the Italian railway network (available in English as well as Italian).
http://www.ryanair.com - flights from Stansted to Perugia (approx. 35 mins away) or Bologna Forli (1 1/2 hrs away)
To compensate for the carbon used in your flight: http://www.carbonneutral.com/cncalculators/flightcalculator.asp
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