Locals joke that Foligno sits "at the centre of the world" — it certainly sits at the centre of Umbria, on flat ground, a rarity: hence its long life as a city of roads, printers and trade. Here in 1472 appeared the first printed edition of Dante's Divine Comedy, a primacy its printing museum claims with pride.
Twice a year, in June and September, the Giostra della Quintana brings the seventeenth century back: ten districts, six hundred costumed figures and riders spearing ever-smaller rings. Palazzo Trinci with its Gothic frescoes is the artistic surprise; the spring-fed hamlet of Rasiglia lies twenty minutes away.
Near Foligno
The closest destinations covered by our editors, with straight-line distance.
