Spello is famous for the residents decorating their properties with displays of summer flowers. They were past their best, but this shows what it must have been like

Spello

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October 11th 2018
11 October 2018 When we were last in Umbria in 2018 we were at the end of an extended Italian trip and couldn’t visit as many of the attractive hill towns as we would have wished. We started to put this right today by driving to the camperstop in Spello. We got there soon after lunch but unfortunately soon afterwards a light rain started. Undeterred, we climbed up through the narrow stre ... read more

Europe » Italy

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Italy became a nation-state in 1861 when the city-states of the peninsula, along with Sardinia and Sicily, were united under King Victor EMMANUEL II. An era of parliamentary government came to a close in the early 1920s when Benito MUSSOLINI establis... ... read more