To the strata of the
Mount Martano rises
Giano dell''Umbria, marvellous medieval suburb a little bit out of
the classical places of the mass tourism, but broadly known by the connoisseurs
and by the more careful travellers. A lot of attractions of big merit are found
in its territory, beginning from a landscape and a panorama that is never
banal, giving splendid views of
Spoleto, Perugia and
Todi.
The featuring element is certainly the
plant of the olive, a strongly symbolic plant, which makes of Giano dell'Umbria
a place of election in the circuit of the cities of excellence in the field of
the oeno-gastronomic products. It is in fact situated in the heart of the zone
of production of the
extra-virgin-oil DOP of the Colli Martani, a
territory from the ancient vocation, where secular cares have made the oil of
Giano a product researched from the most careful gourmets.
The oil of Giano dell'Umbria suffers less
quantity of treatments, so it's ready just when out of the crusher. But its
true peculiarity consists in the secular culture that beginning from the Roman
epoch has made famous the cultivation of olive practised in the outskirts of
Colli Martani. Subsequently they were the monks appropriated in that zone to
recover the tradition, selecting during ages oil-trees and territories among
the fittest and most productive. Today the oil of Giano is known and admired
for its elevated quality and the typical features that make it an oil of
yielded taste, pleasant, delicate and harmonious.
Real arboreal monument is the
olive of
Macciano, an old giant vegetable of over thousand years, sets along the
road that goes from Giano toward the fraction of
Macciano.
However not only oil is produced in Giano
dell'Umbria. Its territory is also known for the vines and for the good quality
of the produced wine, since the zone enters in the border delimited by the
disciplinary that regulates the production of the
Sagrantino of Montefalco,
the famous Umbrian
DOCG. To conjugate tasting and places of art, the
manufacturing communes are associated, promoting an itinerary, the ''
Road
of Sagrantino '', a run that crosses the cities of
Montefalco, Gualdo
Cattaneo, Bevagna, Castel Ritaldi and
Giano dell'Umbria.
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