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The Comune of Campello sul
Clitunno lays over a widely extended area. It is not concentrated in
a sole urban settlement on its own but it is a group of various
small living centres and castles, spread over the plain area or
through the mountain woods, each one of them with its own folks, its
own church, its own Saint to adore and its own very aged and solid
culture.
It’s an easily reachable target both by the
Flaminia State Road both by railway net for all those who wish to
live intensively a resting pause in harmony with the surrounding
nature and meanwhile being close to the most important centres of
historical and cultural interest in the whole Umbria Region.
It is the suitable place for
whoever is always in search for authentic sites where to spend
holidays or some relaxing days, far from routine and city jams. The
first sight is impressive to tourists: the whole southern slope of
Serano Mountain, open as a half-circle is spotted with small
inhabited centres over which the castles of Campello Alto and
Pissignano reign and at its slope the clear Fonti del Clitunno water
gushes out.
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Here the source veins of the homonymous
river cause a small and enchanted lake, surrounded by a thick
vegetation that was very famous already in the past. In the valley,
about 1 km far from here, the Tempietto (small temple) lays. A
masterpiece of romanic architecture and dedicated to God Clitunno.
There are many small churches that are
worth being noticed and preserve very aged and unique works and
pictures inside. Among them all we remind that one of Saint
Sebastian, near the Fonti (Sources) and frescoed by Giovanni di
Pietro nicknamed as “Lo Spagna”, that one of Saint Lorenzo, inside
the Castle of Campello Alto that preserves a precious Baroque wooden
altar.
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As charged with archeological,
historical and cultural memories, the Campello area offer itself to
tourists by the sincere hospitality of a peasant tradition and
offering a good level receptivity.
As a matter of fact it has preserved
itself as a man-sized one and there, the ancient traditions are
still alive and mirror themselves in the quality of life, in purity
and genuineness of products, in the wonderful traces by History, by
Art, by Culture in the landscape.
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