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7 Palazzo Ducale B1

8 Piazza Grande B1

9 Via Federico da Montefeltro B1

Sleeping

10 Relais Ducale B1

11 Residenza di Via Piccardi A2

Eating

12 Picchio Verde C3

13 Ristorante Ulisse e Letizia C2

14 Taverna del Lupo B2

Shopping

15 Leo Grilli Arte B1

Sights

Funivia Colle Eletto
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Although the Basilica di Sant'Ubaldo , perched high up on Monte Ingino, is a perfectly
lovely church, the real adventure is reaching it on the funivia (adult/reduced €5/4; 9am-8pm
daily summer, 10am-5pm Thu-Tue winter; ) , as exhilarating as any rollercoaster. The word
funivia suggests an enclosed cable car, but it's actually a ski lift of sorts, whisking visitors
up the mountain in precarious-looking metal baskets.
In order to board you have to stand on a red dot and then get thrown into a basket by
the operator as it whizzes past - health and safety be damned. Once the giddiness has
worn off, you can watch Gubbio, which moments before had seemed so impossibly hilly,
gradually transform into a flat little toy town far below. The entire valley spreads pictures-
quely before you from the top.
The basilica, which can't help but come as a bit of an anticlimax after the approach, dis-
plays the body of St Ubaldo, the 12th-century bishop of Gubbio, in a glass coffin above
the altar. It also has a small museum dedicated to the Corsa dei Ceri where you can see the

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