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On 26 September 1997, two major earthquakes rocked the Umbria region, leaving ten people dead and causing extensive damages to local villages.
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.
The monastic movement, founded by St. Benedict of Umbria in the sixth century, reasserted involvement in the realities of social life.
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.
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.