How to Visit Spello
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Your guide to a legendary vacation in Spello, Umbria, including practical information to help you get your feet planted quickly.
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Step into Spello, the Umbrian hilltown that reshaped my family and still shapes my writing. These reflections come from years of living among its olive groves, cobblestones, and fiercely kind neighbors—stories of belonging, blunders, beauty, and how a place can change you if you let it. For more tales from life in Umbria, join The Grapevine, where new chapters of this ongoing love story always land first.
Bread and Oil
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Umbria is as ordinary, and extraordinary, as bread and oil. Let me tell you what I mean.
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Along the Aqueduct
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There are many walking paths through the groves that surround Spello. The aqueduct walk is our family favorite. This post is particularly special because Siena took all the photos, surprising us and also herself with her unerring eye.
Read MoreSpello's Infiorata
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An insider's journey of the Infiorata, Spello's most renowned festival and the jewel in the Umbria holiday calendar. With photos documenting the progress as cobblestone streets become tapestries of flowers.
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La Bottega degli Intrecci
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When visiting Spello, don't miss this unique shop to bring home souvenirs to wear and love.
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