Gubbio

Gubbio is a Italian city located in the North-East of the Province of Perugia, in Ombrie.

Geography

Gubbio clings to the first slope Mont Ingino, a small mountain of the Apennin S.

History

The origins of the city are very old: named Ikuvium, it was an important city of the former inhabitants of Ombrie during the time pre-Romans, and is famous for the discovery of the Table of Eugubine (or Iguvine), a whole of parts out of bronze which constitute, joined together, the largest historical text on ancient Ombrie. After the Roman conquest of the 2nd century before J. - C. - it kept its name with only one light change (Iguvium) - the city is remained important, as its Roman Théâtre attests it, the second cuts some who remains in the world.

Structure

The historical center of Gubbio is clearly Médiéval: it is a city with the austere paces with dark gray stones, narrow streets, and a Gothic architecture staged on five levels on the side of the Ingino mount.

A certain number of houses of Gubbio date from, and were in the beginning the rich person traders residences; they often have a second door with face of street, located usually just at a few centimetres of the main entrance, narrower, and raised of a foot above the real level of the street. This type of door is called carried dei morti (death carries) because it is generally affirmed that those were only employed to remove the coffins of the interior of the house. In fact, this door gave access to the upper floors, rez-of roadway being employed like warehouse

The Palazzo dei Consoli

The Palate of the Consuls was built between 1332 and 1337 within Angelo da Orvieto. Y sits the communal capacity of the city. Its esplanade recovers its lower stages in the typical architecture of all the medieval city. Deprived of court interior, one reaches it by a monumental staircase and its tower amounts to 90 Mr.

The Ducal Palazzo

The ducal palate was built about 1479 within Luciano Laurana which wanted to imitate that of Urbino. It comprises a Renaissance court with arcades. It comprised the studiolo Guidobaldo I {{er}} of Montefeltro from of which all the inlaid woodworks were transferred, in 1939, with the MET of New York.

Religious Monumenst

Duomo
Church San Francesco
Church San Pietro
Basilica Sant' Ubaldo, on the Ingino mount to 827 m of altitude (drives out of Ubaldo saint), place of arrival of the Corsa dei Ceri .

Events

Gubbio is known in all Italy for the Corsa dei Ceri , a held spectacular race each year on May 15th. The race refers of devotion, civic, and historical strong and is one of the demonstrations of Folklore of most known of Italy.

Ceri was selected like heraldic emblem on the coat of Ombrie.

the Fioretti of Saint François (chapter 21) tell us how the inhabitants of the city were afraid of a wolf grinding in the surroundings and that the saint going to the meeting of the animal converts it with wisdom into saying to him: “Brother wolf, I order you, in the name of Jesus-Christ, to now follow itself without anything to fear, and we will conclude this peace in the name of God” and how the inhabitants accepted the wolf and nourished it. For some, Saint François returned it vegetarian.
Every year, for the festivals of luminous, visible fir tree, end of the year immense since all the plain, is traced on the whole of the Ingino mount.

Personalities

Baldo Angelo Abati ( Baldus Angelus Abbatius ), doctor of the 16th century, which was the personal doctor of the duke of Urbino François Marie II della Rovere.

Administration

Hamlets

Branca, Torre Calzolari, Spada, Padule, San Marco, Colpalombo, Carbonesca, Biscina, View-point, Scritto, Laying Of ESA, Cipolleto, Ferratelle, Semonte, Casamorcia, Raggio, Monteleto, Mocaiana, Monteluiano, San Martino in Adhesive, Loreto, Camporeggiano, Burano

Communes bordering

Cagli (PU), Cantiano (PU), Costacciaro, Fossato di Vico, Gualdo Tadino, Perugia, Pietralunga, Scheggia E Pascelupo, Sigillo, Umbertide, Valfabbrica

Twinnings

See too

List of the Italian cities of more than 25.000 inhabitants

External bonds

'' the town of Gubbio '' - Associazione Eugubini nel Mondo

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