From the countryside to the city
Situated on a hill dominating the middle valley of the River Tiber, not far from Perugia, but in a solitary position among gently rolling hills, Todi still pretty healthy relationship with its traditional agricultural landscape, among the most beautiful and characteristic of 'Umbria. Born from the ancient Umbrian and Etruscan settlements, and later occupied by the Romans, the town had its heyday between the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, when he undertook major urban development. So Todi, which until then had been a small artisan and commercial center, expanded along the axis of the main arteries of the time, namely the Via Amerina el'Orvietana. Of the original four towns that were, were the village of Porta Fratta, Borgo Ulpian and Borgonuovo, including the walls of the thirteenth century. The birthplace of the poet Jacopo de 'Benedetti, better known as Jacopone, which in the nineteenth century were devoted to the theater and the main square: the figure of the great poet of the "Lauds" is reflected even today in the life Todi, not affected by random numerous cultural and artistic events that attract crowds of tourists.
People's Square and its monuments
The historic center of Todi, which retains a distinctly medieval especially in the high zone, offers many surprises to the visitor. Among roads, ramps, pathways and steps, including apartment houses and palaces, wide open spaces where suddenly facing sometimes grandiose monuments: it is the greatest example the spectacular Piazza del Popolo, built where once was the Roman Forum and elevated compared to rest of the town. The square, which looks like a large rectangle which brings together all the villages, is one of the most advanced achievements of medieval Umbrian. Here, the positioning of buildings, clearly stated opposition of the powers of the municipal city: on one hand the cathedral, flanked by the Bishop's Palace, and the other, the Palazzo del Capitano del Popolo and Palazzo del Popolo. The latter (also known as City Hall) is one of the oldest Italian public buildings and was initially built in Lombard style, but then expanded in the thirteenth century: it has an arcade on the ground floor and a crown of battlements at the top, two orders of mullioned windows and a bell tower of the '500. Joining this by a wide staircase dating from the late thirteenth century, but the Captain's Palace: with important Gothic façade, opened by three lights tastefully decorated and cuspidate at the first plan, and three lights with a round arch in the second, is also on the ground floor porch with a central pillar on the first floor is the Sala del Capitano, with fragments of frescoes from the fourteenth century, in front of the Hall is the General Council of Palazzo del Popolo. On the top floor of both buildings is the Museum Art Gallery. Placed in position opposite the cathedral and the Palazzo dei Priori, founded in Gothic style, underwent several expansions during the fourteenth and the sixteenth century: the first was responsible for the massive rebuilding tower keystone Todi and an eagle in bronze, commissioned by Pope Leo X windows were built in Renaissance style. On the left side of the building is Piazza Garibaldi, offering bell'affaccio the Tiber Valley and is home to the sixteenth century Palazzo Instruments (inside various works of art). A domain of the splendid Piazza del Popolo, and placed on a high flight of steps as if to symbolize, at the time of its construction, the predominance of episcopal power, is the Cathedral of SS. Annunziata, a distinguished religious architecture of the late Romanesque and Gothic. Started around the XI century and finished in the fourteenth century, stands on a wide staircase and the facade has a blend of Romanesque and Gothic periods. It is open from three portals, surmounted in turn by rosettes, and on the right side stands an austere bell tower of the thirteenth century. The interior is divided into three naves, with a adding the fourth smallest in the fourteenth century: in the counter you can admire a fresco depicting the five hundred late-Judgement and a wooden crucifix of the eighteenth century the south aisle, with Gothic arches resting on octagonal columns, open the "aisle" at the bottom above the altar is a wooden crucifix of the thirteenth century panel painting of the Umbrian school, and a wooden choir in the apse of the sixteenth century, richly decorated and Cesi Chapel, decorated with stucco and fresco on the ceiling, from the left aisle leads Finally, the crypt, vaults fourteenth century. Beside the Cathedral is finally the Bishop's Palace with portal Vignola, while prominent positions the Palaces of Cesi, powerful family of Todi during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
Other art treasures
Going beyond the Square to Piazza Umberto I, where stands the massive Temple of San Fortunato, which raised about un'irta steps, tends to overwhelm almost the same cathedral in the urban landscape. Built between the twelfth and fifteenth century on an existing building, the church is characterized by the incomplete façade but also the magnificent fifteenth-century portal with pointed arch, richly decorated with twisted columns and sculptures of characters from the Old and New Testament, San Francisco and San Fortunato and thirteen saints flank the portal two small shrines with Gothic carving of the Virgin Annunciation and the Archangel Gabriele. The interior is very severe, has three naves and a high cruising in the Gothic style, while in the crypt lie the remains of Jacopone, do not miss the long, steep climb to the high bell tower of San Fortunato cuspidata, rewarded by a magnificent view over the rooftops and the Tiber Valley. Along the former convent, where they observed the ancient city walls, and retaining scrap of fourteenth century frescoes in the cloister, we arrive at Piazzale IV Novembre, lovely park that houses the remains of the fourteenth-century fortress and from which there is yet another magnificent view the valley below, which appears as a sort of Renaissance painting; descending from there through the streets below, one of best preserved areas of the town gives you access to Piazzale Jacopone. Once on the way back then director of the Piazza del Popolo you cross the "Rua," the way of the medieval apothecaries, and a steep cobbled Rua Fonte brings us up to where it is lower Porta Marzia, an elegant medieval period for which they were Romans used blocks, as well is the way of the old market, characterized by so-called Nicchioni Romans built a massive substructure at the end of the Republican. If you continue along Via della Piana before the austere church of San Carlo, built in Romanesque style, and later the Scannabecco Source: along the same street - where it was located the Roman Theatre, which have only a few fragments - you can see elegant homes medievaleggiante.
The Church of Our Lady of Consolation
would be mentioned many other historical buildings and religious calendar, but may leave you to discover for itself, making exception only for a final, that is, to the majestic church of Santa Maria of Consolation, one of the most representative monuments of artistic and cultural wealth of the quiet town of Umbria. It is set in a secluded urban than the rest of the apparatus, to the south-west of the thirteenth-century walls, a position that gives it a greater importance. Its construction, which lasted exactly a century, was begun in the early 500 and ended at the dawn of the seventeenth century, to celebrate the cult of Our Lady of Consolation, the project has always been attributed to Bramante, but some documents show other teachers how its creators, including the Barefoot Vignola and Ippolito . The temple, which makes it very unique Todi from afar, amazed by grace and majesty of a Greek cross with four apses, three and a semi-circular polygon with a large central dome, each has two rows of pillars and beautiful windows at the end of the sixteenth century. In front there are three portals, a baroque, another eighteenth century and the final, while the interiors are spacious and bright, simple gifts, decorations feature rich: the twelve niches of the first three apses admire the Apostles of the school of the Discalced, the main altar is the last century fresco of Our Lady of Consolation, which gave rise to the church.
TRAVEL NOTES
Directions:
From Rome: Autostrada del Sole (A1) Florence-Rome, exit Val di Chiana, and continue for Perugia-Terni (E45) exit Todi, Orvieto or exit, and continue to Todi (SS448).
From Florence: Autostrada del Sole (A1), Rome-Florence, exit Orte, follow Terni-Perugia-Cesena (E45), exit Todi.
Events:
paths of art and canteens (June-December)
Antiques Market (second Sunday of each month)
Umbria music fest (August 25 to September 16)
Donkey Palio (end of August, 0758943395)
Todinotte (August)
Todi Art Festival (14-23 July)
Review antiquities of Italy (March-April)
Link:
Situated on a hill dominating the middle valley of the River Tiber, not far from Perugia, but in a solitary position among gently rolling hills, Todi still pretty healthy relationship with its traditional agricultural landscape, among the most beautiful and characteristic of 'Umbria. Born from the ancient Umbrian and Etruscan settlements, and later occupied by the Romans, the town had its heyday between the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, when he undertook major urban development. So Todi, which until then had been a small artisan and commercial center, expanded along the axis of the main arteries of the time, namely the Via Amerina el'Orvietana. Of the original four towns that were, were the village of Porta Fratta, Borgo Ulpian and Borgonuovo, including the walls of the thirteenth century. The birthplace of the poet Jacopo de 'Benedetti, better known as Jacopone, which in the nineteenth century were devoted to the theater and the main square: the figure of the great poet of the "Lauds" is reflected even today in the life Todi, not affected by random numerous cultural and artistic events that attract crowds of tourists.
People's Square and its monuments
The historic center of Todi, which retains a distinctly medieval especially in the high zone, offers many surprises to the visitor. Among roads, ramps, pathways and steps, including apartment houses and palaces, wide open spaces where suddenly facing sometimes grandiose monuments: it is the greatest example the spectacular Piazza del Popolo, built where once was the Roman Forum and elevated compared to rest of the town. The square, which looks like a large rectangle which brings together all the villages, is one of the most advanced achievements of medieval Umbrian. Here, the positioning of buildings, clearly stated opposition of the powers of the municipal city: on one hand the cathedral, flanked by the Bishop's Palace, and the other, the Palazzo del Capitano del Popolo and Palazzo del Popolo. The latter (also known as City Hall) is one of the oldest Italian public buildings and was initially built in Lombard style, but then expanded in the thirteenth century: it has an arcade on the ground floor and a crown of battlements at the top, two orders of mullioned windows and a bell tower of the '500. Joining this by a wide staircase dating from the late thirteenth century, but the Captain's Palace: with important Gothic façade, opened by three lights tastefully decorated and cuspidate at the first plan, and three lights with a round arch in the second, is also on the ground floor porch with a central pillar on the first floor is the Sala del Capitano, with fragments of frescoes from the fourteenth century, in front of the Hall is the General Council of Palazzo del Popolo. On the top floor of both buildings is the Museum Art Gallery. Placed in position opposite the cathedral and the Palazzo dei Priori, founded in Gothic style, underwent several expansions during the fourteenth and the sixteenth century: the first was responsible for the massive rebuilding tower keystone Todi and an eagle in bronze, commissioned by Pope Leo X windows were built in Renaissance style. On the left side of the building is Piazza Garibaldi, offering bell'affaccio the Tiber Valley and is home to the sixteenth century Palazzo Instruments (inside various works of art). A domain of the splendid Piazza del Popolo, and placed on a high flight of steps as if to symbolize, at the time of its construction, the predominance of episcopal power, is the Cathedral of SS. Annunziata, a distinguished religious architecture of the late Romanesque and Gothic. Started around the XI century and finished in the fourteenth century, stands on a wide staircase and the facade has a blend of Romanesque and Gothic periods. It is open from three portals, surmounted in turn by rosettes, and on the right side stands an austere bell tower of the thirteenth century. The interior is divided into three naves, with a adding the fourth smallest in the fourteenth century: in the counter you can admire a fresco depicting the five hundred late-Judgement and a wooden crucifix of the eighteenth century the south aisle, with Gothic arches resting on octagonal columns, open the "aisle" at the bottom above the altar is a wooden crucifix of the thirteenth century panel painting of the Umbrian school, and a wooden choir in the apse of the sixteenth century, richly decorated and Cesi Chapel, decorated with stucco and fresco on the ceiling, from the left aisle leads Finally, the crypt, vaults fourteenth century. Beside the Cathedral is finally the Bishop's Palace with portal Vignola, while prominent positions the Palaces of Cesi, powerful family of Todi during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
Other art treasures
Going beyond the Square to Piazza Umberto I, where stands the massive Temple of San Fortunato, which raised about un'irta steps, tends to overwhelm almost the same cathedral in the urban landscape. Built between the twelfth and fifteenth century on an existing building, the church is characterized by the incomplete façade but also the magnificent fifteenth-century portal with pointed arch, richly decorated with twisted columns and sculptures of characters from the Old and New Testament, San Francisco and San Fortunato and thirteen saints flank the portal two small shrines with Gothic carving of the Virgin Annunciation and the Archangel Gabriele. The interior is very severe, has three naves and a high cruising in the Gothic style, while in the crypt lie the remains of Jacopone, do not miss the long, steep climb to the high bell tower of San Fortunato cuspidata, rewarded by a magnificent view over the rooftops and the Tiber Valley. Along the former convent, where they observed the ancient city walls, and retaining scrap of fourteenth century frescoes in the cloister, we arrive at Piazzale IV Novembre, lovely park that houses the remains of the fourteenth-century fortress and from which there is yet another magnificent view the valley below, which appears as a sort of Renaissance painting; descending from there through the streets below, one of best preserved areas of the town gives you access to Piazzale Jacopone. Once on the way back then director of the Piazza del Popolo you cross the "Rua," the way of the medieval apothecaries, and a steep cobbled Rua Fonte brings us up to where it is lower Porta Marzia, an elegant medieval period for which they were Romans used blocks, as well is the way of the old market, characterized by so-called Nicchioni Romans built a massive substructure at the end of the Republican. If you continue along Via della Piana before the austere church of San Carlo, built in Romanesque style, and later the Scannabecco Source: along the same street - where it was located the Roman Theatre, which have only a few fragments - you can see elegant homes medievaleggiante.
The Church of Our Lady of Consolation
would be mentioned many other historical buildings and religious calendar, but may leave you to discover for itself, making exception only for a final, that is, to the majestic church of Santa Maria of Consolation, one of the most representative monuments of artistic and cultural wealth of the quiet town of Umbria. It is set in a secluded urban than the rest of the apparatus, to the south-west of the thirteenth-century walls, a position that gives it a greater importance. Its construction, which lasted exactly a century, was begun in the early 500 and ended at the dawn of the seventeenth century, to celebrate the cult of Our Lady of Consolation, the project has always been attributed to Bramante, but some documents show other teachers how its creators, including the Barefoot Vignola and Ippolito . The temple, which makes it very unique Todi from afar, amazed by grace and majesty of a Greek cross with four apses, three and a semi-circular polygon with a large central dome, each has two rows of pillars and beautiful windows at the end of the sixteenth century. In front there are three portals, a baroque, another eighteenth century and the final, while the interiors are spacious and bright, simple gifts, decorations feature rich: the twelve niches of the first three apses admire the Apostles of the school of the Discalced, the main altar is the last century fresco of Our Lady of Consolation, which gave rise to the church.
TRAVEL NOTES
Directions:
From Rome: Autostrada del Sole (A1) Florence-Rome, exit Val di Chiana, and continue for Perugia-Terni (E45) exit Todi, Orvieto or exit, and continue to Todi (SS448).
From Florence: Autostrada del Sole (A1), Rome-Florence, exit Orte, follow Terni-Perugia-Cesena (E45), exit Todi.
Events:
paths of art and canteens (June-December)
Antiques Market (second Sunday of each month)
Umbria music fest (August 25 to September 16)
Donkey Palio (end of August, 0758943395)
Todinotte (August)
Todi Art Festival (14-23 July)
Review antiquities of Italy (March-April)
Link:
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