Italy Trip in July for 2-3 weeks

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On Sun, 25 Feb 2007 16:36:21 GMT, "tile" wrote:

a small correction..
Assisis cannot be reached by train.
the nearest train station being
santa maria degli angeli train station
then you will have to take a bus

According to trenitalia, there is train service to Assisi. I know that
you have to take a shuttle bus, but it's a very short distance and the
busses wait for the trains. My criterion is that if the railroad says
they have service to a town, I consider that town to have a train
station.

the same applies to Gubbio

the next and nearest train station is
Fossato di Vico
and again you will have to take a bus

I said that Gubbio was connected to Perugia by bus. Fossato di Vico is
much farther from Gubbio than Assisi's train station is from Assisi,
and trenitalia doesn't claim to serve Gubbio.
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well. I think that in any case there is a wonderful church in Santa Maria
degli Angeli.. with a small Franciscan church inside and ruins of an old
roman temple. Besides, there is a franciscan cloister.
You will definetely need to stop in Santa Maria degli Angeli for a visit.
as to Gubbio. are you telling me that perugia is nearer to Gubbio then
Fossato di vico train station ??
Fossato di Vico to Gubbio 22 kms..

Santa Maria degli Angeli to Assisi is about 4 kms ( from train station to
Assisi center )

as to Assisi, it was built on a roman town. there is a small
roman museum underground, with a part of the roman Forum. a curiosity is a
big fallic symbol.
Fallic symbol for the romans meant.. Good luck..
and it was normal to have such thing in houses and in gardens ( a lot of
examples were found in Pompei and now are preserved in a secluded room of
the Archeological Museum of Naples )
My opinion is Umbria is one of the nicest regions in Italy
For sure. only in this region you will see so many original medioeval towns
If I well remember, Zeffirelli's Juliet and Romeo was filmed partly in
Assisi and partly in Gubbio

On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 06:10:20 GMT, "tile" wrote:


"B Vaughan" ha scritto nel messaggio
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On Sun, 25 Feb 2007 16:36:21 GMT, "tile" wrote:

a small correction..
Assisis cannot be reached by train.
the nearest train station being
santa maria degli angeli train station
then you will have to take a bus

According to trenitalia, there is train service to Assisi. I know that
you have to take a shuttle bus, but it's a very short distance and the
busses wait for the trains. My criterion is that if the railroad says
they have service to a town, I consider that town to have a train
station.

the same applies to Gubbio

the next and nearest train station is
Fossato di Vico
and again you will have to take a bus

I said that Gubbio was connected to Perugia by bus. Fossato di Vico is
much farther from Gubbio than Assisi's train station is from Assisi,
and trenitalia doesn't claim to serve Gubbio.
--
Barbara Vaughan
My email address is my first initial followed by my surname at libero dot
it
I answer travel questions only in the newsgroup

well. I think that in any case there is a wonderful church in Santa Maria
degli Angeli.. with a small Franciscan church inside and ruins of an old
roman temple. Besides, there is a franciscan cloister.
You will definetely need to stop in Santa Maria degli Angeli for a visit.
as to Gubbio. are you telling me that perugia is nearer to Gubbio then
Fossato di vico train station ??
Fossato di Vico to Gubbio 22 kms..

Santa Maria degli Angeli to Assisi is about 4 kms ( from train station to
Assisi center )

as to Assisi, it was built on a roman town. there is a small
roman museum underground, with a part of the roman Forum. a curiosity is a
big fallic symbol.
Fallic symbol for the romans meant.. Good luck..
and it was normal to have such thing in houses and in gardens ( a lot of
examples were found in Pompei and now are preserved in a secluded room of
the Archeological Museum of Naples )
My opinion is Umbria is one of the nicest regions in Italy
For sure. only in this region you will see so many original medioeval towns
If I well remember, Zeffirelli's Juliet and Romeo was filmed partly in
Assisi and partly in Gubbio


--
Barbara Vaughan
My email address is my first initial followed by my surname at libero dot it
I answer travel questions only in the newsgroup

On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 06:10:20 GMT, "tile" wrote:

well. I think that in any case there is a wonderful church in Santa Maria
degli Angeli.. with a small Franciscan church inside and ruins of an old
roman temple.

I was not impressed at all by Santa Maria degli Angeli. It's one of
those huge pompous basilicas, mostly 17th century in appearance. I was
sorry they didn't just leave the little Franciscan church as it was.

Besides, there is a franciscan cloister.
You will definetely need to stop in Santa Maria degli Angeli for a visit.

I would just skip it and go on to Assisi.

as to Gubbio. are you telling me that perugia is nearer to Gubbio then
Fossato di vico train station ??

No, I was just saying that since there is bus service from Perugia to
Gubbio, it might be better to take the bus rather than the train and
then the bus. Maybe I'm wrong, I've only made the trip by car.

Fossato di Vico to Gubbio 22 kms..

Santa Maria degli Angeli to Assisi is about 4 kms ( from train station to
Assisi center )

There's enough of a difference to justify saying that Assisi is served
by train whereas Gubbio isn't.



as to Assisi, it was built on a roman town. there is a small
roman museum underground, with a part of the roman Forum. a curiosity is a
big fallic symbol.
Fallic symbol for the romans meant.. Good luck..
and it was normal to have such thing in houses and in gardens ( a lot of
examples were found in Pompei and now are preserved in a secluded room of
the Archeological Museum of Naples )
My opinion is Umbria is one of the nicest regions in Italy
For sure. only in this region you will see so many original medioeval towns
If I well remember, Zeffirelli's Juliet and Romeo was filmed partly in
Assisi and partly in Gubbio


--
Barbara Vaughan
My email address is my first initial followed by my surname at libero dot it
I answer travel questions only in the newsgroup

On Sun, 25 Feb 2007, tile wrote:

But the station at SM degli Angeli is called Assisi, and I don't think
it's significantly further from the city centre than that at Perugia,

if you have ever been to Santa Maria degli Angeli you know it is not
Assisi.. Santa maria is at the bottom of a hill.. while Assisi is on the
hilltop. Two different towns or villages.

I do not know whether S.M. degli Angeli is in the same comune (municipal
territory) of Assisi, but I guess so. Definitely it is however linked to
the memories of S.Francis as many other places in the high town, because
it contains the Porziuncola, the little church where S.Francis died.

I've never been there by train, but as far as I remember the distance is
not larger than that of other "stations in the plain" for hill towns
(e.g. Siena), or from a station to other places in a large city.

Not everywhere is like Koeln where the Hauptbahnhof is just on the side
of the Dom :-)


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"B Vaughan" ha scritto nel messaggio
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On Sun, 25 Feb 2007 16:36:21 GMT, "tile" wrote:

a small correction..
Assisis cannot be reached by train.
the nearest train station being
santa maria degli angeli train station
then you will have to take a bus

According to trenitalia, there is train service to Assisi. I know that
you have to take a shuttle bus, but it's a very short distance and the
busses wait for the trains. My criterion is that if the railroad says
they have service to a town, I consider that town to have a train
station.

the same applies to Gubbio

the next and nearest train station is
Fossato di Vico
and again you will have to take a bus

I said that Gubbio was connected to Perugia by bus. Fossato di Vico is
much farther from Gubbio than Assisi's train station is from Assisi,
and trenitalia doesn't claim to serve Gubbio.
--
Barbara Vaughan
My email address is my first initial followed by my surname at libero dot
it
I answer travel questions only in the newsgroup

well. I think that in any case there is a wonderful church in Santa Maria
degli Angeli.. with a small Franciscan church inside and ruins of an old
roman temple. Besides, there is a franciscan cloister.
You will definetely need to stop in Santa Maria degli Angeli for a visit.
as to Gubbio. are you telling me that perugia is nearer to Gubbio then
Fossato di vico train station ??
Fossato di Vico to Gubbio 22 kms..

Santa Maria degli Angeli to Assisi is about 4 kms ( from train station to
Assisi center )

as to Assisi, it was built on a roman town. there is a small
roman museum underground, with a part of the roman Forum. a curiosity is
a big fallic symbol.
Fallic symbol for the romans meant.. Good luck..
and it was normal to have such thing in houses and in gardens ( a lot of
examples were found in Pompei and now are preserved in a secluded room of
the Archeological Museum of Naples )
My opinion is Umbria is one of the nicest regions in Italy
For sure. only in this region you will see so many original medioeval
towns
If I well remember, Zeffirelli's Juliet and Romeo was filmed partly in
Assisi and partly in Gubbio


Was only a couple of Euros for a taxi to our hotel at the top of Assisi. We
did take the bus up and down a couple of times later in the stay. Was
convenient and timely. The laundromat was near the train station.

Sounds like an awesome trip. A place to put in between Florence and
Rome is Orvieto. It's up on a hill, and large and alive, and has a
really nice duomo too. You can get a hotel room overlooking the duomo.