St Ubaldo in the glass case

Gruesome Saints and Scary cable cars

---

August 10th 2012
There aren't many places in the world where you get to see a 900 year old body that hasn't decayed and if we had known that was what we would see today we may not have gone- it's a bit freaky. Gubbio is yet another amazingly pretty little medieval hill town in Umbria and the only reason it got on our radar for a visit was the funicular described as the nearest thing to a theme park ... read more

Europe » Italy » Umbria » Gubbio

---

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