Our wines, as elegant and authentic as the Umbrian varieties from which they originate, are produced with the utmost respect for nature and tradition. Bellafonte lies just outside Bevagna, in the heart of the unspoilt Umbrian countryside. It is the realisation of a dream; the desire to reinterpret the ancient heritage of Montefalco and its grape varieties. The estate covers a total of 30 hectares, 8 of which are under vine. The remainder is comprised of woodland, a small orchard and 2,500 olive trees. The vineyards are set on rocky terrain, which alternates between marl, sandstone and the typical clay of the area. The vines are cultivated with great care, fertilized with manure from selected sources and mechanical equipment is used to avoid the use of herbicides. The most delicate processes are carried out by hand: from pruning and leaf stripping to canopy management and of course, harvest. Carved into the hillside is the winery. The temperature and humidity of the cellar are maintained by a network of underground pipes which draw in air from outside, ensuring a constant air flow. Production is geared towards small quantities of the highest possible quality, with a particular focus on low intervention techniques. […]

For The inhabitants of Bevagna but also of Gualdo Cattaneo and other neighbouring villages, the sanctuary of the Madonna della Valle is a significant place of worship and until the end of 1980 Mass and weddings were celebrated; In addition, on 1st May people met with the whole family to attend mass and eat outdoors, immersed in the green of an uncontaminated nature and in a forest of oaks and chestnuts. Many people walked from Torre del Colle, even from Bevagna and Gualdo and it was also an opportunity to take a long walk with friends. 1st May was a special day, cheered also by the marching band, while in front of the sanctuary kiosks of roast pork vendors alternated with stalls of toys for children, who used to play ball on the front porch of the church. After the last works around the 70s, the sanctuary of Madonna della Valle has been in a state of abandonment for a long time because of the neglect of time and especially after the earthquake of 1997 that made it unfit because of the numerous cracks that affected the whole structure. The current Municipal Administration has included the Sanctuary in a project […]

From one of the numerous documents of the Diocesan Historical Archive of Spoleto, it is deduced that the “Villa Cantalupi” was equipped with a wheat dispenser and four churches: Beata Vergine dei Sette Dolori, Sant’ Angelo (San Michele Arcangelo), San Biagio and San Giovanni, with the addition of the church of Annunciazione in Montarone. The church of Beata Vergine dei Sette Dolori becomes in the course of time the church of Santa Maria Addolorata, while in the 20th century the remains of the church of San Biagio gradually disappeared. Segatori, GRANDE DIZIONARIO DI BEVAGNA, Vol 11 – pp : 8-9

Santa Maria is the only remaining church of the five existing. It has a curious polygonal bell tower with two pointed arches at the base. Inside, among others, on the left of the main altar you can see in a a Holy Temple a fresco by Ascensidonio Spacca, known as Il Fantino, representing the Madonna with the Child, San Giuseppe and San Giovanni the Evangelist; on the right the Madonna della Misericordia and the Mysteries of the Rosary by Anonymous of the 16th century, with San Domenico added by the same painter. Along the walls there are decorated little chapels. A fragment of a travertine double-sloping cinerary urn cover id Inserted in the corner of a house-wall, inside the village. Frontally you can notice a togated half-bust figure, the inscription is lengthened on a single line along the base bar of the lid: Cn(aeus) Salvenus. The gens Salvena is documented by two other inscriptions always engraved on lid of cinerary urns coming perhaps from Torre del Colle, not far from Castelbuono, and therefore perhaps of the same tomb complex. Annarita Falsacappa, Giovanni Mariotti, Paolo Porzi – BEVAGNA GEMMA DEL PIANO. Immagini insolite e storie inedite – Dimensione Grafica Editrice – 2013 – pp. […]

Leaving Porta Guelfa and passing the bridge over Timia, you arrive, going up, to the village of Torre del Colle, already known in medieval times as Torre San Lorenzo, ancient feud of the Counts of Antinano. Entering through a sandstone pointed arch, you pass under a vault and you get to a characteristic crossroads with thirteenth-century left houses whose walls are decorated with sandstone cannonballs. Continuing to the right there is an old house, which was a place of devotion of the Madonna della Valle in the 30s of the past century. In fact, between the village and the sanctuary there are endless and involving intertwinings. The facade appears very ruined and over the door you can hardly read: viva Maria via Gesu’ si pror […] le donne scandalose anno 1934 stortini pierino. Inside, after a run-down room with fireplace, you enter an environment with two frescoes on the back wall, both by the painter Turiddo Balicchia from Ancona, who realized them in 1935. The former represents the Holy Family and we read in one side: w Mary– w the King– w the Holy Palms and in the other w Jesus– w the Duce; the second one illustrates the Adoration […]

After the capital, Cantalupo is the largest village in the Municipality of Bevagna. Located at an altitude of 204 metres above sea level, half way between Cannara and Bevagna, at the intersection between the torrent Attone (originally Lactone) and one of the paths of the Via Perugina, Cantalupo came to count 1,034 inhabitants in 1951, then dropping to 332 in 2001 and go up to around 500 in 2018. The origin of his name, like the one of the other nine Italian villages named Cantalupo, is rather mysterious, and at least three hypotheses circulate on this name: the most fantastic wants that, in that area, when there was wind, they were heard howling wolves, and was therefore indicated as a place where the wolf sang (canta = sings; lupo = wolf). Another one refers to a predictive name, for which it could be called Castrum Lupi, from the name of Lupo (Wolf), descendant of the Antignano family. A third hypothesis, the most suggestive, considers the place as liminal of a vast territory dedicated to Janus (Torgiano, Limigiano, Giano dell’Umbria), whose name would be derived from Cantatus lucus, that is a sacred wood (to the same god) destined to transform from […]

Built by Rainaldo I count of Antignano, the little church, now deconsecrated, is the oldest among those preserved: there are news of it since 1198.

Built by Binello and Rodolfo between the 12th and 13th centuries, it has undergone numerous renovations over the course of time; the restoration of 1951-1957 removed the eighteenth-century decorations. The church has a travertine façade with a horizontal crowning, divided at the top by pilasters and a frame with protomes. The beautiful portal is adorned with a frieze that develops in three orders along the arch and uses, in the jambs, Roman frames reworked. On the right of the façade, the bell tower rises and after modified in the fifteenth century. The interior, with three naves, has a raised presbytery and a high crypt, divided into four aisles by columns, some of which are salvaged. In the right aisle, there is the seventeenth-century baptismal font, followed by the chapel of the S.S. Sacramento, renewed in the nineteenth century by Vitali and decorated by Traversari. Next to it, there is the chapel of the Madonna Del Carmine with frescoes by Andrea Camassei, dating back to about 1625. The processional statue of Saint Vincent is at the right of the entrance, which was made at public expense in 1638. In the left aisle there was a beautiful fifteenth-century crucifix with wooden silhouettes […]

The most significant buildings and palaces of Bevagna are along Corso Matteotti, formerly Via Flaminia, among which we point out the Palazzo Lepri, Municipality until 1997, designed by the architect Andrea Vici at the end of the 18th century. The most significant buildings and palaces of Bevagna are along Corso Matteotti, formerly Via Flaminia, among which we point the Palazzo Lepri, Municipality until 1997, designed by the architect Andrea Vici at the end of the 18th century. Inside there are the Archive, the Municipal Library, the Picture Gallery, the Archaeological Museum as well as an interesting Council room, decorated by Piervittori, who in the years of the Unification of Italy, made the medallions with portraits of important citizens, amongst them people can point out Agostino Mattoli, the first Mayor of the Municipality. In the Picture Gallery it is possible to admire the wooden case of the Blessed Giacomo Bianconi painted by Fantino in 1589, the Madonna with the Child by Dono Doni, other paintings by Andrea Camassei and Carlo Lamparelli, as well as the Adoration of the Three Wise Men by Corrado Giaquinto. In one room, the diplomas and the honors of the illustrious entomologist Filippo Silvestri are exposed. A […]

The frigidarium remains of the thermal complex, formed by mosaic-decorated niches with black and white tesserae. Recent restorations have revealed traces of the calidarium. The beautiful mosaic, from the 2nd century A.C., of exquisite and refined workmanship, is inspired by the marine world.

The church has the name of the ancient Benedictine monastery located on the mountain above Bevagna and here transferred in 1555. Inside there is a remarkable frontal in gilded bronze. In front of it, there is a frieze from a tomb of the Republican age. Annarita Falsacappa, Giovanni Mariotti, Paolo Porzi –  BEVAGNA GEMMA DEL PIANO. Immagini insolite e storie inedite – Dimensione Grafica Editrice – 2013 – pp. 259-260

The temple was originally oriented towards the Forum, the side and the rear façade, still preserved, have a covering in opus mixtum and decorations with half-columns and pilasters. It dates back to the 2nd century A.D. In medieval times it was transformed into the church of the Madonna della Neve. Today it is part of the Residenza d’Epoca Orto degli Angeli.