Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Tourist office
( 075 813 86 80;
www.assisi.regioneumbria.eu
;
Piazza del Comune 22; 8am-2pm &
3-6pm Mon-Sat, 10am-1pm & 2-5pm Sun summer, 9am-1pm Sun winter)
Stop by here for maps, leaf-
lets and info on accommodation.
Getting There & Around
BUS
Umbria Mobilità (
Click here
)
run buses run to Perugia (€4, 45 minutes, nine daily) and
Gubbio (€6.50, 70 minutes, 11 daily) from Piazza Matteotti.
Sulga
( 075 500 96 41;
www.sulga.it
)
buses leave from Porta San Pietro for Florence (€12, 2½ hours, one daily at
7am) and Rome's Stazione Tiburtina (€18.50, 3¼ hours, three daily).
CAR & MOTORCYCLE
From Perugia take the SS75, exit at Ospedalicchio and follow the signs. In town, daytime
parking is all but banned. The nearest car park to the old town is on Piazza Giovanni
Paolo II; parking costs €1 per hour.
TAXI
For a cab, call
075 81 31 00.
TRAIN
Assisi is on the Foligno-Terontola train line with regular services to Perugia (€2.50, 20
minutes, hourly). You can change at Terontola for Florence (€14.50 to €21, two to three
hours, 11 daily) and at Foligno for Rome (€10 to €22, two to three hours, 14 daily). Ass-
isi's train station is 4km west in Santa Maria degli Angeli; shuttle bus C (€1, 13 minutes)
runs between the train station and Piazza Matteotti every 30 minutes. Buy tickets from the
station
tabaccaio
or in town.
TOP OF CHAPTER
Spello
POP 8620
Sometimes it seems like it's just not possible for the next Umbrian town to be prettier than
the last. And then you visit Spello: a higgledy-piggledy ensemble of honey-coloured
houses spilling down a hillside, guarded by three stout Roman gates and chess-piece
towers.
