In 1229 the people of Lugnano built the convent of San Francesco on the spot where, so the story goes, the saint had pulled a child from the jaws of a wolf with the help of a goose.
The collegiate church of Santa Maria Assunta is of the eleventh and twelfth centuries, and inside are cosmatesque mosaics and a Crucifixion of the Giottesque school. Palazzo Pennone, now the town hall, owes its name neither to a ship's yardarm nor to the cardinals of legend, but to its first owner, Antonio Penone. Between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries the village had a factory making electric light bulbs. At the Roman villa of Poggio Gramignano archaeologists have dug an infant cemetery. The 1,539 residents make oil.
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Next up: Our Lady of the Assumption, patroness of a Romanesque town between Umbria and the Tiber, Sunday 15 August
Nearest airport: Perugia San Francesco, 60 km away
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📅 Every year, on 15 August
Lugnano in Teverina celebrates Our Lady of the Assumption on 15 August; its Romanesque collegiate church, built between the 11th and 12th centuries over an earlier 9th-century structure, holds fine Cosmatesque mosaics and once gathered the whole town's population.
A white wine carved into Etruscan tufa history, toasted by Garibaldi's Thousand: Orvieto has held Denominazione di Origine Controllata status since 1971.
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