Gubbio Travel Itineraries

Recommended trip and tourist travel in Gubbio

Visit of the city center

One starts the visit entering through Via Matteotti from the statal road coming from Perugia. Keeping on the way, passing via mausoleo one get to the Mausoleum of forty Martyrs, work of the architect Pietro Fringuelli, erected to remind the 40 patriots killed by the nazists on June, the 22nd 1944.
Continuing through via Matteotti one gets to the square of forty Martyrs, from which it is possible to admire the complex of the most interesting buildings in town. On the left side of the square the church of S. Francesco can be admired. From this square, going along Via della Repubblica one gets to the curch of S.Giovanni, then from via baldassini it is possible to admire the left side of the town hall and the arches realized by the Gattapone to support the square Piazza della Signoria. From this point it is possible to notice the imposing size of the Consuls Palace. Coming back through via Lucarelli one gets to piazza della Signoria, by way of stairs. From via dei consoli, one gets to largo del Bargello, embellished by a fountain, where the elegant Bargello Palace, dating from the XIII century, can be admired. On the left, after a few steps, one gets to the square of Giordano Bruno where there is the church of S.Domenico. Continuing by via Gabrielli and after by via Capitano del popolo one can visit the palace Capitano del Popolo . Coming back to via dei Consoli one takes on the left via Galeotti and then via Ducale and, taking again on the right via S.Ubaldo, one gets to the Dome and to the Dukes Palace called as well la Corte. By via Ducale one arrives at via XX Settembre and taking on the right via Mastro Giorgio first and via Savelli della Porta after one arrives at the church S.Maria Nuova.

From Gubbio to

From Gubbio, on the road passing the Bottaccione valley, you get to the pass of Madonna della Cima and going down you get to Scheggia.
Going south, you pass over Costacciaro and get to Monte Cucco (m 1566). If one gets to the top walking throughout woods, it is possible to admire a landscape of Gualdo and the mountains close to Gubbio. After 5 km you continue for the Ranco di Sigillo (m 1150). The entrance to the coveis at 1390 m projecting down to the Fosso dell'Acqua Fredda.

Costacciaro Gualdo Tadino Gubbio Scheggia

From Gubbio to Valfabbrica

Leaving from Gubbio the route to follow in order to see the full region has a first stop in Scheggia, which is situated where the flaminia way cross the Sentino, with its typical bridge. Following the faminia way, direction south, you get to the village of Costacciaro.
At the cross of the Osteria del Gatto taking the road on the right, you get after 1,3 Km to Fossato di Vico having the modern part of the town along the road an the old part on a cliff. After a further 8km there is Gualdo Tadino below the Monte Serra Santa, on which you can recogize the white leading from Gualdo to Perugia and finally you will get to Valfabbrica on the sides of river Chiascio.

Costacciaro Fossato di Vico Gualdo Tadino Gubbio Scheggia Sigillo Valfabbrica

Franciscan Path

The itinerary goes through the road of 46km that Saint Francesco followed for the first time in 1206 after Christ, going from Assisi to Gubbio and that after the Saint will follow for large parts each time he desires to reach the Sanctuary of the Verna.

From Assisi to Pieve San Nicolò
Leaving from the actual Door of San Giacomo of Assisi, we go towards Pieve San Nicolò and then we continue in direction of Valfabbrica, up to the locality called "Il Pioppo". The construction of the small parochial church of Pieve San Nicolò, an architectonic structure very simple with a unique bay and a belfry, it dates back to the beginning of the 17th century. The ruins of some ring walls, makes us think to a typical organization of the fortifications with a central installation, with the visual tower located in the middle of the edifice; nowadays unfortunately there is no trace left of the three doors or of the tower.
From Pieve San Nicolò to Valfabbrica
At the doors of the fortified village of Valfabbrica, the locality called "Il Pioppo" was marking the frontier between the woods and the cultivated land. The legends say that, during the travel, San Francesco found shelter in the nearby Benedictine monastery, maybe the one of Valfabbrica. Today the main front of the antique abbey has only kept the central rosette and three one hole windows on the side, while the original apse structure has been completely lost.
From Valfabbrica to Coccorano
From Valfabbrica we continue in the direction of Gubbio, passing by Chiascio and going up the road under Coccorano. Some biographers say that in this stretch the friar was victim of an aggression from a group of bandits and after that he asked asylum to the inhabitants of the place. We suppose, without being sure of it, that the friar found asylum in the nearby castle of Coccorano, owned by the Bigazzini family from Gubbio and friend of the saint from the times of his land richness. This fortress of the 11th century, together with the fortifications of Biscina and Giomici, dressed up as a protection for a large stretch of the Chiascio valley. If, on one side, is still visible the big square tower located on the left of the entrance arch, on the other side, from the church that originally was included in the boundary wall, traces are left only in the building rebuilt near the castle.
From Coccorano to Biscina
We continue in the direction of Vallingegno, going beyond the castle of Biscina, once a time frontier between the communes of Gubbio and Valfabbrica and fundamental point for the strategic – military control, thanks to its geographic position. Biscina, already at the time of San Francesco, was submitted to numerous dominations, which led, in the fortified structures, to continuous interventions and restorations. The general prospect of the castle results quite irregular, properly because of the posterior additions that often have not respected the pre-existing alignments. The north side of the structure is made of two towers that protect the court entrance, the first one is on the right side and is the bigger one, still intact and crowned by guelph crenels, while the second one, on the left, has not a lot left.
From Biscina to Vallingegno
Along the road we can admire monuments that are turning points for the Franciscan history, such as the Church of Caprignone, the Abbey of Vallingegno and the Hermitage of San Pietro in Vigneto, all built on pre-existing pagan.
From Vallingegno to Fassia
Almost at the end of the travel, we can reach these places, where are established two hospitals: Santa Maria of Fonte Salice of Montebaroncello and Santa Maria Maddalena of Fassia. Places of dolour where one was looking for assistance and cure above all for the leprosy.
From Fassia to Gubbio
We now see Gubbio, there was the leprosy centre of San Lazzaro; around 1240 after Christ were built the church and the convent of San Francesco, even if at the beginning the Franciscans had established themselves in the small Church of Santa Maria of the Victory - or Vittorina.

Assisi Gubbio Valfabbrica

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Gubbio travel itineraries