Example sentences for: umbria

How can you use “umbria” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • And more than anywhere else in the country, Tuscany and neighboring land-locked Umbria present the ideal green Italian landscape, dotted with stalwart hilltop towns, where cypress-tree sentinels watch over groves of twisted olive groves and vineyards blanket the gentle rolling hills.

  • Siena, its proud historic rival, dominates the Tuscan hill towns to the south, while the university town of Perugia and the Assisi of St. Francis are the keys to Umbria’s luminous beauty.

  • Each of the five areas has a principal city as a focus or starting point: Rome for central Italy, plus Sardinia; Florence for Tuscany, with Umbria, and the Adriatic seaside resorts to the east; Venice for Veneto, the Dolomites, and Emilia’s historic towns from Parma to Ravenna; Milan for Lombardy, Piedmont, and the Italian Riviera to the west; and Naples for the south and Sicily.

  • Together with the Palazzo dei Priori, the cathedral sustained some damage from Umbria’s 1997 earthquake.

  • But Umbria’s pride and joy is the work of Perugia-born Pietro Vanucci, a.k.a.


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