Two wonderful Umbrian towns: Assisi & Spoleto

Individual arrival at your hotel **, *** or **** hotel in Assisi. On your first evening, you have a briefing and will have the opportunity to discuss your holiday.

Overnight stay with breakfast in Assisi

This ‘Discover Assisi’ walk will take you around the most important cultural monuments of Assisi, which are mostly connected with the lives of the saints Francis and Clare, who were born and died in Assisi. From the hotel, your walk goes up to the Porta Cappuccini town gate (470m a.s.l.). From here you will walk through a tangle of little alleys and medieval squares. You will pass the remains the medieval castle (506m a.s.l.), the basilica of St. Francis, the temple of Minerva, the church ‘Chiesa Nuova’ and the basilica of St. Clare, finally walking down to the monastery of S. Damiano (310m a.s.l.).
Walking time: 3 – 4 ½ hours
Distance 7 km / 4,4 mi
Overnight stay with breakfast in Assisi

This is a beautiful walk in the shade of the woods and across the pastures of Mount Subasio. From the Porta Cappuccini town gates, you walk up to the hermitage Eremo delle Carceri (830m a.s.l.) on Monte Subasio, a holy place where St Francis retreated himself. Then you descend along trails and quiet country roads back to Assisi. The longer route makes an extra loop on Monte Subasio
Distance short walk: 12 or 16 km from Porta Capuccini
Walking time: 4 hrs or 5hrs
Ascent/descent: + 544m – 544m or +731 m -744 m

Today the choise of three options:
There are two routes to go to Spello: a longer one going uphill to the hermitage Eremo delle Carceri or a shorter one through olive groves along the slopes of Monte Subasio.

The long route has more up-and downhill walking- From the Porta Cappuccini a footpath will take you to the hermitage, which is situated at 830m a.s.l. Saint Francis and his companions used to retreat here to meditate in the woods. After St. Francis’s death, a monastery was built on this spot, but you can still visit the cave of Saint Francis. Passing the spring ‘Tre Fontane’ and the abbey of S. Benedetto you will descend to Spello. You walk first through woods and then through olive groves.
Overnight stay with breakfast in Spoleto
Walking time: 6 hours
Distance: 17, 4 km / 10,8 miles
Ascent / Descent: + 788m -870m

The lower route follows the slopes of Mount Subasio and involves less climbing, but it is a beautiful walk through olive groves with astounding views over the valley.
Spello is built on the slopes of Mount Subasio. This little town has Roman origins, as several features including the Porta Venere and Porta Consolare town gates and the remains of a Roman theatre outside the town walls remind us. Do not forget to admire the colourful frescoes by Pinturicchio in the church of S.Maria Maggiore.
Total ascent-descent:+ 270m – 359m
Walking time: 3 hours
Distance: 10,8 km / 6,7 miles

A Loop walk starting in Spello
Go by car or train to Spello and make a nice ring route in the surrounding of Spello. Through olive groves and woods, you will walk along the Roman aqueduct to Collepino, a small walled-in mountain village. From here, you climb some more and then descent along quiet trails and dirt roads on Mount Subasio you come back to Spello The vegetation of the slopes of the Subasio is varied with olive groves, broom, Turkey oak, minor oak, hornbeam, flowering ash, maple, beech and ilex. The aqueduct-path winds its way through charming scenery composed of the crop fields of the valley, olive groves and Mediterranean woodland. You will have stunning views of Spello and the surrounding hills.
Overnight stay with breakfast in Spoleto
Walking time: 4 hours
Distance: about 12 km / 7,5 miles
Ascent – Descent: + 521m – 521m.

At the end of the day, you take the train to Spello, or those who booked a transfer will be brought to Spoleto by car. You stay in an *** or **** hotel.

Today’s walk takes you to Monteluco (Mount Luco). The name ‘Lucu’ (lucus) means ‘sacred woods’, and signifies that in ancient times the mountain was considered a holy place. From the 5th century, hermits lived under the Benedictine rule on this mountain covered with green woods. Later the Franciscans also built a monastery here. The evergreen oak wood was always very important for the town and was therefore already a protected area in the middle ages. The animals living here include porcupines, wild cats, foxes, badgers, and squirrels.

Overnight stay with breakfast in Spoleto
Walking time: 4 hrs
Distance: 10,7 km / 6,6 miles
Ascent & Descent: + 510m -483m

Today after breakfast at 9.00 you have a transfer to Poreta and from here you walk along the Olive Trail –’sentiero degli olivi’. As the name indicates, you will mostly walk through olive groves on the slopes of the mountains. It is also a stretch of the Way of Saint Francis, a pilgrimage walking route from La Verna in Tuscany to Rome. You pass several little villages, mostly built on hilltops, like Eggi and Bazzano. It is also possible to shorten the route and have the transfer to Bazzano superior, which makes the route about 3kms shorter.

Overnight stay with breakfast
Total ascent-descent: + 475m -436m
Walking Time: 4 hours 20 min
Distance: 15 km / 9,3 miles (Poreta village)

Today after breakfast end this tour through a typical Umbrian nature and past medieval villages