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Enclosed by the other central regions, Umbria
is called the “green heart of Italy”. It is not only
an area of great natural beauty but it also has fine traditions
and culture heritage as can be seen in its enchanting towns and
medieval villages, such as Assisi, Todi and Spoleto.
Umbria is a quintessentially human region, a land
rich in natural beauties, but also in great and ancient civilisations
and in creative energy, a melting pot where past and present mix
with plans for the future, blending effortlessly.
Agriculture - Stock-farm -
Fishing:
Agriculture is not flourishing in Umbria either for the systems
of cultivation withdrawn, also because the varied zones have divided
in small ownerships that have usually conducted to mezzadria.
The big agricultural concentration is situated in particular way
in the valleys, in the basins and in the western part of the Region.
Between the principal crops we remember that of the wheat that
is its most diffused of the sugar beets and of the tobacco. Small
productions of wine and oil offer some products of good quality.
A particularity is the crop of the hypocrites and the most famous
are those black of Norcia. The breeding more developed it is that
of the swines, while once was existing, in the mountains, also
that of sheep that today it is as disappearing. The thick woods
give the possibility of substantial supplies of lumber.
The Basilica of St. Francis in Assisi, a medieval town in the
mountains of central Italy, where the Choir sang a Mass in the
crypt of the saint. The Basilica of St. Francis is what everyone
comes to see. It is very famous, chock-a-block full of spectacular
frescoes by the greatest painters of late medieval Italy.
Gubbio town - Consoli's palace.
Industry - Tourism:
The industrialized fittings have assembled in the zones of Perugia
and Terni. We remember that in Umbria there are a lot of factories
and handicraft enterprises. Between the greatest industries we
find those heavy for the production of electric energy, in the
proximities of Falls of Marmore. Other types of industries are
those alimentary, textile and of the clothes. To end we find a
lot of productions of ancient tradition between which that of
the paper and the typographic industries. Having also dipped in
a beautiful landscape with an artistic patrimony as the sanctuaries,
the old cities medioevali, the museums, the cultural demonstrations
and folcloristiche, Umbria doesn't find with the tourism a big
income for the inside economy.
Position and Frontier :
In the italian peninsula, the only Region that has not bathed
from the sea is really Umbria, that confines to north and to east
with Marche, to south with Lazio and to east with Lazio and Tuscany.
Rivers - Lakes:
Umbria is rich of rivers. The greatest is Tevere, that is born
from Chimney Mountain and after having crossed Tuscany it enters
in the territory of Umbria for then to continue in Lazio, where
it goes to receive the waters of its great tributary: Black river.
Black river that before entering in Tevere receives the waters
of Velino forming so the famous fall of Marmore. In Umbria we
find Lake Trasimeno, little depth and its surface goes slowly
decrease. This lake for extension is the fourth of Italy. There
are other more small lakes; the most meaningful is Lake of Corbara
and Lake of Chiusi situated to the border with Tuscany.
Climate:
The Region having confined from the mountainous reliefs it doesn't
profit any influence of the sea. The climate is continental with
winters colds and warm summers. The precipitations are abundant
especially in the proximities of the chains appenniniche. Often
in the basins and in the more small level lines, in summer there
is not wind and the air it is sultry. In general Umbria enjoys
of a good due climate to the rich vegetation.
Population:
In Umbria the relationship between territory-inhabitants is under
the national average. There are no big urban agglomerations; the
populated zones are those of Valley Umbra and of Basin of Terni.
The cities in these zones the 160 thousand inhabitants don't overcome.
As in almost all the regions to mountainous character there is
the typical tendency to abandon the mountainous and hilly tall
zones, to move to the cities in the lowland or to emigrate in
the other regions or even abroad.
Communication:
Built above the high ground or in the necks according to rules
medioevali, that allowed to defend the cities from the attacks
of other people, today the tallest cities extend to be more and
more isolate really because they find big difficulties of communication
for their urbanistic positions. The road and railway fittings
more important pass to the outside of the Region only. The only
important streets are that railway that connects Ancona with Rome
passing for Terni and Foligno and that road that from Rome it
arrives to the port of Ascoli, in Marche, touching the cities
of Foligno and Spoleto.
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