On 22 May 1484 the Virgin is said to have appeared to a shepherd girl on an elm. Two years later the sanctuary was built around that tree: the trunk is still there, inside the church, and Matteo da Gualdo frescoed the walls.
The town of 3,502 residents grew up at a ford on the Chiascio, on the road between Assisi and Gubbio: the name comes from the fabrica, the structure that helped people cross the river. In 820 a diploma of Louis the Pious confirmed the autonomy of the abbey and the castle. Along the main road, meanwhile, stands the Dolmen, a monument to motorcyclists: in April, after the rally, the helmets are blessed.
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📅 Every year, on 20 January
Valfabbrica celebrates Saint Sebastian on 20 January, in the church dedicated to him, built in the 14th century on the castle walls and today partly used as a museum too, which preserves a 16th-century panel with the Crucifixion and saints Sebastian and Francis.
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Outside Valfabbrica, but an easy day trip away.
