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Two Umbrian cities sixty kilometres apart offer, between them, the complete range of what this region does best: sacred art of the first order, one of Europe's great performing arts festivals, extraordinary food and a landscape of sustained beauty.

From the autostrada below, Orvieto appears hallucinatory: a medieval city perched on a sheer plug of volcanic tuff three hundred metres above the plain, its skyline dominated by a cathedral facade that may be the most beautiful in Italy. We design the visit that does the reality justice.

Umbria's capital sits on its ridge with the assurance of a city that has been governing itself and eating well for three thousand years. Lake Trasimeno, twenty minutes west, adds to the experience the quality most conspicuously absent from the more celebrated parts of the region: genuine peace.