Gubbio, Italy Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

GUBBIO is the most thoroughly medieval of the Umbrian towns, an immediately likeable place that's hung onto its charm despite an ever-increasing influx of tourists. The streets are picture-book pretty, with houses of rosy-pink stone and seas of orange-tiled roofs; the setting is equally gorgeous with the forest-clad mountains of the Apennines rearing up behind. A broad and largely unspoilt plain stretches out in front of the town, and the whole ensemble – especially on grey, windswept days – maintains Gubbio's tough, mountain outpost atmosphere. A powerful medieval commune, and always … more »