Monte Santa Maria Tiberina

[fumobici]

These are actually from last year, I just found them on a memory card before erasing it.  Monte Santa Maria Tiberina is a very small hilltop town in Northern Umbria overlooking the Tiber river valley.

Arriving, I walk to the nearest wall and take a snap looking East towards the Tiber and Citta di Castello.



Let's begin our stroll:








The next three give a sense of the view from the terrace of the town's little restaurant. My father says they have a worthy Easter feast every year. Or maybe it was Christmas.







This is the local small church or pieve as they are called, S.M. Assunta.





And the sign for you doubters-



Cute little house with view.



There's a breathtaking panorama at the South end of town, here's my half-assed attempt to capture it panning L to R:

















This is perhaps more a mountaintop than a hilltop, you can see the rather dizzyingly precipitous terrain in this shot-







You can see here how the whole town is built using native rock-





This appears to be little inn you can probably sleep at.



And the town hall.



The town seems to be well supplied with cats-







And one shade seeking Siberian Husky,



And a last look upon leaving,





Hard to think of a lovelier way to spend an afternoon!

[anshjain97]

Wow- seems so quiet and calm. Did you have the entire place to yourself?

And how does the Infopoint work?

[mossie]

A real gem of a mountain retreat

[Deleted]

Beautiful, fumobici. Thanks.

[Deleted]

Besides being a pretty town, it would be worth it to go there just for the view from the top.

[htmb]

Gorgeous views! Nice photos of this picturesque little town. It's good you liberated these shots before all was lost.

[bixaorellana]

Thank goodness you checked that memory card! Stunning views beautifully captured, Fumobici.

How did you happen to be in that little town?

[fumobici]

Thanks for your nice replies. Anshjain, yes we pretty much did. There might have been three or four other tourists that day.

Bixa, my family lives only perhaps a 45 minute drive from there and besides it's a breathtaking little drive. I'd seen the town from down in the Tiber valley a number of times and wanted to see it up close. There's another tiny little town on a mountainside further down the valley we've been teased with for years from the E45 called Cesi I want to finally get to next year. www.keytoumbria.com/Cesi/Walk_around_Cesi.html None of us have ever been despite admiring it from afar.

[lugg]

Stunning - hoping you get to Cesi and post when you do.