The Castellina offers an opportunity for guests who wish to participate in guided tours, walks ecological short courses embroidery, creativity, easy cooking typical regionale.Grazie the closeness to the center of Ippico Spello (2 KM) also walks to Cavallo.
Courses Cooking typical Umbra
Ingredients are simple and natural at the base of a food that remains tied to its traditions and that is not made of the influence neighboring regions.
In Umbrian cuisine are poor and popular recipes.
That is a very local cuisine that requires the genuine products of his land whose recipes made according to ancient traditions are handed down from generation to generation allows so much commitment and "boldness" (just think certain combinations) in the preparation of dishes not only of big occasions but also in the preparation of daily food that remains Meat is the true protagonist of tables and Umbria is cooked with simple ways to not affect its flavor.
The firings are the most used and the barbecue spit, which allow the meat flavor with aromatic and delicious aromas that enhance the flavor.
Sports and Entertainment.
The Castellina also offers the possibility of hiking and walking in mounting bike on the slopes of Mount Subasio Park destination beloved by tourists who feel the presence, in its pleasant paths, the message Franciscan, where the plant and animal world have joined majority the glory of the divine Creatore.La fauna of Mount Subasio collects a wide variety of birds, plants and inhabitants of the most unspoiled nature.
Useful Details:
At the headquarters of the Mount Subasio Park is a show geopaleontologica Permanent Mount Subasio.
Supervised by Umbro Group Mineralogical and Palaeontology and by the University of Perugia-Department of Earth Sciences and University Center for Scientific Museums, it is proposed to promote the cultural advancement of geological and paleontological heritage of the Subasio, a mountain formed from limestone rocks of origin marina, which evokes a landscape very different from the current one.
They were made and exposed three studies on limestone rocks and marnose succession umbro-marchigiana with particular regard to ammonites of Corniola and Red Ammonitico.
These are fossils of cephalopod mollusc lived about 180 million years ago (Giurrasico below).

The exhibition is divided into two rooms, one devoted exclusively to Mount Subasio, the other processes of fossilization and geological eras.
You can admire beautiful woods silicizzati, ammonites in pyrite, insects in amber, fingerprints of reptiles, plants of the Carboniferous, internal models of gastropods, leaves travertine, corals, a primitive fish, amphibian and also witness the drift of continents.

Opening: every day from 9.00 to 13.00
During the month of August open on Sunday from: 9.30 to 12.30-from 15:30 to 18:00
Towns
The Castellina is in a position trategica and ideal for visiting the towns and villages more beautiful dell'UMBRIA

Foligno Assisi Spello Spoleto Gubbio Todi
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FOLIGNO third largest city of inhabitants in the province of Perugia, is situated on the plain of Topino, on the edge of Valle Umbra.
Already in the late medieval age, for the favorable geographical location and abundance of water resources, the city was flourishing market and the industrial sectors in textile, tanning, dyeing, paper, starting in 1470, through the work of Emiliano and Orfini J. Numeister, settled there the art of printing, so that Foligno was one of the first and most important centers of activity of central editorial.
The industrial Foligno luck continued even after, accentuandosi in recent decades of the nineteenth century and early twentieth century, despite a lull in more recent times, the city boasts a comprehensive industrial structure, particularly in areas remarkable engineering, chemical, textile , food.
Even this sector has a strong tradition and connects the rich agricultural and livestock production of the surrounding countryside (which grow cereals and tomatoes, beet and tobacco, olive trees and vines on hill slopes).
ASSISI for the richness of its monuments, can be considered one of the most artistically Italian richest. The historical events that the city has left precious evidence in the form of churches, palaces, Castle Ruins, etc..
In the main square of the city is perfectly preserved, a Roman temple (Temple of Minerva), but, undoubtedly, the jewel of the city, hub of the religious world, is the Basilica of St. Francis.
It SPELLO town sull'estremo slope of Mount Subasio, above un'affluente right Topino, 219 m. Above sea level.
It is 4 km. Foligno, and 35 from Perugia.
The Mount Subasio there are famous prisons S. Francis and a stone quarry in lithographic, which employed large skilled work. The land, fertile, extends into the mountain, in the hill and flat, and it is planted with cereals, vines, olive trees, and pingui pastures where many cattle breeds. It is crossed by the main road connecting the city to Perugia and Foligno.
There are held weekly flourishing markets and makes exports of oil, wheat and wine. Ancient history is the origin of the second SPELLO which historians credited more you want has been founded by the Umbrians. It was called "Hispellum" from Romany that the Municipality did and wrote the tribe Lemonia.
It was declared by Cesare COLOGNE GIULIA and later was named city Flavia Constant by Constantine
GUBBIO Nestling at the foot of Mount Ingino, Gubbio is one of the oldest cities of beautifully preserved forever and full of monuments that bear witness to its glorious past.
Testimony of its ancient origins are Tables Eugubine, one of the most important documents Italic and Roman Theater located just outside the walls. Sovrastata from the monumental Basilica of Saint which houses the remains incorrotte of Patron, Gubbio hosts architectural masterpieces and recall that symbolize the power of this medieval city.
SPOLETO, while also showing the urban fabric obvious influences of the Roman era, remains substantially intact - old looks medieval, due to the time when it was first flourishing Duchy Lombard, and then an important center of the papal state.
Only the construction of the highway connecting Southern California with Rome (Sum) intervened just in time to avert an isolation that would soon caused un'irreversibile and definitive revocation, and some intelligent initiatives in the cultural field have strongly contributed to the revival the city in recent times: in 1946 was inaugurated the National Experimental Theater, in 1951 it was the turn of the Center for Italian Studies sull'Alto Middle Ages, finally in 1958 took place the first edition of the Festival dei Due Mondi, world festival of theater, music prose and today one of the most prestigious and comprehensive world. With this cultural revival but also psychological, Spoleto has recently solved the age-old problem of water and got that the state release the fortress of their destination in jail, pointing with a great determination to relaunch tourist still in place but already well under way.
TODI have different assumptions about the name of the city: the word Todi could derive from the word "border" ( "tutere"), or dall'etrusco "tudicolare", or from "tutus' (place high and fortified").
There are various myths about the origins of Todi, but history says that the city was founded by the Umbrians in 2700 BC. Later, the Etruscan people before and after the Roman III century before Christ) if they impadronirono leaving numerous testimonies, as Nicchioni Romany of Old Market Square, probably originally part of a basilica. Nell'88 BC Marcus Crassus emptied of his possessions the city, which after the fall of the Roman Empire was pillaged several times. This period is the figure of the saint Bishop Fortunato who became the protector of the city. In middle age Todi was acerrima enemy of the near Orvieto. In the twelfth century became a free Commune, inaugurating a very lucky period, in which the city is enriched by precious monuments.