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THREE
UMBRIAN MOUNTAINS: MONTE SUBASIO, MONTE ALAGO AND MONTELUCO
An
8 or 10 days walking holiday
Would
you like to walk through beautiful scenery with a paradisiacal climate in which
marvellous places, medieval
villages and monasteries follow one from each other? Then this unguided walking
tour (level 3) could
be for you. You hike through the natural park of Monte Subasio and
from there to the lower Apennines. The tour finishes with a two day stay in
Spoleto at the foot of the ’holy mountain’ Monteluco.
Programme:
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Division 8-day
tour:
day
1 arrival holiday farm Costa di Trex (8 km from Assisi)
day
2
to Nocera Umbra (6 hours)
day
3 to Gualdo Tadino (5 ½ hours); train to Spoleto
day
4 walk on Monteluco (3 hours) day
5
walk
olive grove path (6 hours) or a short walk on Monteluco (2 hours 45); with
the train to Spello day
6
walk
in surroundings of Spello (5 hours) or to the abbey of Sassovivo and Foligno (7½
hours) day
7
walk to Assisi and back to the hotel in Costa di Trex
(7 or 5 hours)
day
8 departure
Division 10-day
tour:
day
1 see above day 1
day
2 see above day 2
day
3 walk in surroundings of Nocera, mount Alago
(4 hours) day
4 see above day 3 day
5
see above day 4 day
6 see above
day 5 day
7
see above day 6 day
8
see above day 7
day
9 walk to Assisi and back to the holiday farm (5 hours) day
10 departure
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Programme
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Day
1
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Arrival
The tour
starts in the quiet, hilly countryside near Assisi. Your overnight stay is in
a quiet little
holiday farm with excellent cookery.
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Day
2
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To
Nocera Umbra
Today
your first stretch of walking is through the natural park of Mt.Subasio; in the valley of the Potenza you
continue to Nocera and your hotel is in the centre of this little town.
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Day
3
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To
Gualdo Tadino and Spoleto
The
route passes through olive groves and woodland. In
Gualdo Tadino you take the train to Spoleto. This town has a long history and is
now a tourist centre with its ancient, late-medieval and renaissance monuments.
Your hotel is in the medieval centre of Spoleto, close to the Roman theatre.
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Day
4
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A
day in Spoleto
You
will visit Spoleto and go for a walk on Monteluco. The name lucus
means ’bosco sacro’, and signifies that in pagan times the mountain was
considered a holy place. From the 5th century hermits lived under Benedictine
rule on this mountain. During your walk you pass some of the
little hermitages. The Franciscans also built a monastery here. The evergreen
oak wood has always been very important and was already protected in the middle ages. Some of the animals living here are the porcupine, wild cat,
badger and squirrel.
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Day
5
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To
Spello
Today
you can choose from two itineraries, both short walks through
forest and olive groves. The
shorter walk will take you along
the old abandoned railway, passing through tunnels and over
railway bridges.
You
can also make a longer walk along the Olive Grove Path (Sentiero
degli Olivi), a walking route from Spoleto to
Assisi
.
As the name indicates, you will walk through the olive groves on
the slopes of the mountains. You will also pass through several
villages, mostly built on hills, like Eggi and Bazzano.
After both walks you take the train to Spello
(280m.), where you will sleep in a beautiful location in the medieval centre of this
town.
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Day
6
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A
day in Spello
Today
you can choose again between two walks: a circular route on Mt.
Subasio or a longer walk to the Benedictine abbey Sassovivo.
The last leg is by train back to your hotel in Spello. Spello has
lovely little streets to wander around, decorated with plants and flowers. A very
picturesque spot is the Via Torre di Properzio, which ends near the Roman ’Porta Venere’. In the
church of S.Maria Maggiore you can admire the cycle of frescoes by the Umbrian painter
Pinturicchio.
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Day
7
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Back
to Assisi
Spello is
situated on the west edge of the natural park of Monte Subasio and the next day you
will be walking through this park: their are variations of the route at this
point (eight day or ten day trip). You will visit the Franciscan hermitage, the Eremo delle
Carceri. Saint Francis and his companions retreated here often and you can
visit the cave where Francis used to meditate. In Assisi many places and monuments are strongly
bound with the saints Francis and Clare,
who lived here in the 13th century. The medieval character of Assisi is well-preserved
and
the houses, gates, squares and churches are almost all built in the pink- white
stone of Monte Subasio.
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Day
8
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Departure
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The ten day tour has an extra day
in Nocera with a ring walk on Mount Alago and a walk to Assisi.
The
tour includes:
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7
or 9 overnight stays with breakfast in holiday farm and *** hotels
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4 or 6 times dinner
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local
back-up service
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luggage
transportation
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route
notes (in Italian, English or Dutch) and maps.
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route
briefing on arrival day
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insurance
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tour
information
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Period
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Daily from the 1st April
until the beginning of November
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Level
3
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For walkers with some experience. Routes middle/high landscapes with
some steep climbs. Day distances between 10-22 km with an average of 3 km an
hour. Walking over footpaths, mountain tracks, forest trails and little road
walking.
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Price 2012
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8 day tour: per
person in double room € 618,00
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8 day tour: single
room € 737,00
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8 day tour: travelling alone € 788,00
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10 day tour: per
person in double room € 754,00
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10 day tour: single room € 904,00
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10 day tour: travelling alone € 945,00
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On request
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extra overnight stays, wine-tasting, cookery
course
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