In the Baglioni chapel of Santa Maria Maggiore, Pinturicchio painted in 1501 an Annunciation with self-portrait and one of the Renaissance's sweetest Nativities, over a floor of Deruta majolica: this is the treasure of Spello, a Roman and medieval village leaning on Mount Subasio, all pink stone and flowering balconies.
Roman it truly is: the Venus Gate with its twelve-sided towers and the mosaics of the Villa dei Mosaici prove it. At Corpus Domini, the Infiorate carpet the lanes with petal tapestries for the procession to cross: an ephemeral art prepared in one night, worth the trip alone.
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Next up: Saint Felix of Massa Martana, patron of the town of the flower carpets and Pinturicchio, Tuesday 18 May
Nearest airport: Perugia San Francesco, 17 km away
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📅 Every year, on 18 May
Spello celebrates Saint Felix of Massa Martana on 18 May; the town, once «Splendidissima Colonia Julia» at the will of Caesar and Augustus, is today famous for the Corpus Domini flower carpets and for Pinturicchio's frescoes in the Collegiate Church of Santa Maria Maggiore.
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Outside Spello, but an easy day trip away.
