Last minute Itinerari Marsciano

The town Marsciano

The history of Marsciano doesn't resolve all in the hard-working workmanship of the tile. There are other beauties that this territory has to offer to the numerous visitors attracted by spellbound landscapes, works of art and refined oenogastronomic resources.

The hills of Marsciano are populated from suggestive castles that constitute its dominant element, while the valleys, ploughed by the river Tiber and from the river Fersenone offer unforgettable landscapes. Just in the Valley of the Fersenone rises the Castello di Sant'Apollinare, a marvellous medieval Byzantine building of the XI century, from which it's possible to extend the look on the whole green surrounding lowland. Another wedge of the medieval mosaic is constituted by the Castello Spina, a medieval suburb that preserves intact its urbanistic and architectural structure. But indeed there are many castles, practically one in each hill, one different from the other and each of them deserves to be visited. We mention quickly only some other place, but the list could be longer: Castiglione della Valle, Migliano, Montelagello, Papiano, Mercatello. A real medieval circuit, among green hills and serene valleys ploughed by rivers and brooks, an environmental and cultural heaven. Cerqueto is another suburb that deserves a mention apart; a place where the most refined Renaissance art curiously links to the culture and the popular traditions. In the Parish Church of Santa Maria Assunta is guarded the first dated work of the Perugino, the "San Sebastiano with San Rocco and San Pietro", of 1478, very suggestive fresco and of great dramatic intensity, which subject will be more times taken back by the "divin painter". A few hundred meters of distance there's the grave of Father Mariangelo da Cerqueto, known to the whole world as Frate Indovino, famous hero of the popular wisdom.