Umbria

The olive tree is present all over the area, offering many opportunities to walk on an olive route in Umbria: Colli del Trasimeno, Orvietani Colli, Colini Colli, Colli Assisi-Spoleto, Colli Martani …
The route of the Colli del Trasimeno starts from the shores of the homonym lake between castles, towers, monasteries and medieval churches and continues into enchanting places such as Tuoro, Passignano, San Feliciano, Sant’Arcangelo, Castiglione del Lago, Piegaro and ends in Perugia …
The route along Colli Assisi-Spoleto’s olive-growing areas starts from Trevi, a town which is mainly olive-growing , home of the Museum of Olive Culture. From here you have many choices of trails to follow, such as Spoleto, Foligno and Spello, where in one of its towers is the royal olive tree and reach Assisi, walking through olive groves alleys.
Another beautiful area in Colli Martani, in the center of the “green heart” of Italy is the Valle Umbra. Here the route crosses from Deruta Torgiano, Bettona, Gualdo Cattaneo, going across Massa Martana, Todi, Bevagna and Montefalco, important places as well.
In Trevi, visit the Museum of Olive Culture, housed in the former monastery of San Francesco (13th century), next to the homonymous church and the Municipal Art Gallery. In this “museum” is presented the immediate relationship between olive cultivation, olive products, changes and the progress of the environment in which the olive has been developed for centuries in social and economic level.
If your time permits, take a stop at “Società Agricola Trevi Il Frantoio”, a homey and hospitable place, a small family business, which has been active for years in the agricultural sector, offering genuine and healthy products like the old ones.
In Torgiano – Assisi, visit the Olive & Olive Museum that was founded to document the presence of olive oil in quotidian life for millennium. Also visit the Wine Museum which proposes a route-presentation to the history of wine that begins in the 3rd millennium BC. and it gains until today.
In Bettona (20 minutes from Assisi), a good idea is to diner at the “Frantoio dell’Azienda» and visit the company’s olive oil mill. Hidden among the olive trees along a path you would never want to ends, ideal for hiking and mountain biking, in between a thick vegetation with all the shades of green.