Umbria and wellness
Travelling around Umbria means considering your roots in a territory with thousands years of history, art, traditions, peoples, cultures: from the Umbrians to the Etruscans, from the Romans to the Langobardts, from the Renaissance to the Popes’power.
Every small town, Church or square tells the history of a glorious past, the villages and the towns keep the artistic and cultural heritage’s treasures preserving the flavours and the tools of the artisans.
The green Umbria, with its suggestive Medieval villages, is one of the Italian regions which better offer a wellness tourism made up of a good ratio between quality and price.
Umbria is a natural oasis, where the beauties of the landscape and of the artistic heritage give the visitors a deep sense of balance and peacefulness; here the wellness has become one of the classic holiday offer proposed by high level receptive structures (hotels, old residences, relais, country houses with beauty-farm, wellness centres and thermae) present on the Umbrian territory whose number is always increasing.
In Umbria you learn to know the meaning of beauty.
Umbria is the heart of Italy, but not simply for its geographical position. The region’s wealth of natural and artistic wonders seems almost inexhaustible.
Travelling the roads of Umbria is a journey full of surprises, continuously suspended between the signs of a well-preserved past and a vocation for the future that is entirely new, that has reawakened Umbria from a torpor that lasted for centuries, bringing to light a region that is alive and exquisitely beautiful.
Umbria today, reinventing itself fashionable but without overdoing it, has much to offer visitors: sport, culture, museums, epicurean delights, healing waters, and musical events of international renown.
Because Umbria is a land of balance, able to assemble a thousand facets and a thousand different souls into a single fresco, a blend of man and nature, intense spirituality and secular pride.
Immersed in an atmosphere of palpable harmony, every stretch of land and every city has its own unique identity, the result of millennia of civilisation that have left dense layers of memory and timeless masterpieces throughout the land.
The rural ingeniousness patiently chiselled the environment, reclaiming land, tilling and planting olive groves and vineyards that not only produce prized oils and wines but have become the symbol of the region.
Dotted with medieval towns and silent hermitages, the Umbrian hills have just as much to offer as other regions that may be more famous.
In Umbria you need only travel a few kilometres to discover places of unspoilt wilderness, with centuries-old beech woods, deep caves, and mountains populated by ancient legends.
And Umbria is also rich in water: it rises in springs and mountain lakes, runs in rivers that carve impressive rocky gorges, and broadens out into wetlands and man-made lakes that are magically transformed into nature reserves.
Lake Trasimeno, the gentle fl owing of the Tiber, and the leaping falls of the Cascata delle Marmore all seem to have been created intentionally to inspire poets and painters.
At the end of the journey, one thing is certain: Umbria has a true vocation for beauty.
The most beautiful photos of Umbria
Wellness
Over the past few years, Umbria has registered important developments in the well-being tourism accommodation sector. Generally, those travelling for business or pleasure select an accommodation based on the "well-being services" it can offer, a comfortable place where they can be welcomed and taken care of.
A new way to holiday, mixing nature and relaxation. It's not by chance that Umbria has been nicknamed the "green heart of Italy," but thanks to its landscape of rolling hills and mountains, woods and green plains, olive orchards and vineyards, rivers and streams, waterfalls and springs. Umbria is the ideal place for all those in search of space, where they can revitalise their energy through physical and psychological relaxation and wellbeing, far away from the stress of daily life.
The Umbriabenessere accommodations await you with an extremely rich programme of well-being and relaxation.
Choose from standard or personalised treatments, immersed in the surrounding atmosphere. Enter into a dream, fill up on energy, take back your physical and mental strength and leave the professionals to take delicate care of you.
Nature
Umbria is a small, natural treasure. Its variety of health spas are largely immersed in the green countryside, not far from the cities of art and small medieval towns which set them apart.
They are tourist facilities equipped with all the comforts and services which are firmly bound to the idea of well-being and to the natural environment, offering picturesque locations where visitors can abandon themselves entirely, relax and immerse themselves.
Umbria is a natural fitness centre, offering jogging, biking, horseback riding, hiking, golf, rafting and canoeing, all to rejuvenate, let off pentup stress and revitalise the body.
The wide range of sports activities in contact with nature will help all those hoping to rediscover the joys of physical activities.
Taste
Healthy eating is one of the pillars of fitness, but does not have to preclude the pleasures of delicious taste.
Fresh, traditional ingredients from our region help contribute to the beneficial effects of a vacation in one of our Umbriabenessere Consortium accommodations.
Savour regional dishes prepared with imagination, nourishment and lightness, our fresh ingredients adding even more healthy living to your holiday. Umbrian cooking is much like the land itself: simple, yet genuine.
It is mainly composed of products from our agricultural and farming culture. We can offer products of unquestionable quality such as oil, wine and truffles. Each part of the territory, each town offers its own traditional fare which speaks of history and traditions.
Fish from the lake, wine from the hills and plains, sausages and milk products from mountain areas.
Wherever you go, you can find something unique and original.
Events and manifestations in Umbria
A region for all year round
Following you will find the events you will enjoy around Umbria: popular festivals, exhibitions, artistic and cultural shows chosen for their National and International importance, for their meaning and spectacularity.
FAIR OF THE PRIZED NORCIA BLACK TRUFFLE AND OF THE TYPICAL SPECIALITIES FROM THE VALNERINA - Norcia (Pg)
COLORING THE SKY - Castiglione del Lago (Pg)
ANTIQUE ITALY EXHIBITION - Todi (Pg)
www.rassegnaantiquariaditalia.it
"MEMORIAL PAOLO D'ALOJA" INTERNATIONAL ROWING RACE Piediluco di Terni (Tr)
"ASSISI ANTIQUES" NATIONAL EXHIBITION OF ANTIQUE
CORSA ALL'ANELLO - Narni (Tr)
CALENDIMAGGIO - Assisi (Pg)
CERI RACE FESTIVAL - Gubbio (Pg)
QUINTANA TOURNAMENT - Foligno (Pg)
INFIORATE DEL CORPUS DOMINI - Spello (Pg)
IL MERCATO DELLE GAITE - Bevagna (Pg)
FESTIVAL OF THE TWO WORLDS - Spoleto (Pg)
UMBRIA JAZZ - Perugia
PALIO DELLE BARCHE - Passignano sul Trasimeno (Pg)
www.passignanosultrasimeno.org