Vallo di Nera

Member of I Borghi più belli d'Italia

In 1217 Spoleto gave the people of Vallo di Nera the right to build a castle on a hill at the opening of the Valnerina, and the village still keeps that shape. Stone houses sit inside walls and towers, linked by narrow lanes spanned by arches. In the church of Santa Maria, Giottesque frescoes include Cola di Pietro's Procession of the Whites, painted in 1401.

Highlights

Santa Maria, its apse frescoed in 1383 by Cola di Pietro da Camerino
San Giovanni Battista, with Jacopo Siculo's Death of the Virgin from 1536
The Casa dei Racconti, a centre for oral storytelling, at the Portella gate
Two dovecote towers in the 16th-century Borgo dei Casali
The cycle path on the old Spoleto–Norcia railway line (IT)

Text adapted from Wikipedia (Vallo di Nera (IT), Vallo di Nera (EN)). Available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Population: 345

Events through the year

Feast of Saint John the Baptist Religious · 24 June
Fior di Cacio Food and wine · June

Dates follow the traditional patterns in our sources: check locally before you travel.

Adapted from Wikipedia (Vallo di Nera). Available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Translated and adapted from open data: Eventi e manifestazioni in Umbria, Regione Umbria (CC BY 4.0).