Escape from the noise of Rome and go get relax on a day trip from Rome to explore the UNESCO-listed town of Assisi in Umbria region, learning about its patron, St Francis of Assisi, and then stop in Santa Maria degli Angeli to admire its 9th-century Basilica where the saint once worshiped. Then discover Cortona, the charming town in Southern Tuscany, the setting for the best-selling travel memoir,
Under the Tuscan Sun by Francis Mayes. When you are there, go visit the beautiful Santa Margherita Sanctuary, patron of the city, and the Girifalco Fortress. This journey runs through two most beautiful regions of Italy: Umbria and Tuscany so that you will fill your eyes with an amazing green hilly countryside dotted with olive grooves, vineyards and hilltop medieval villages! Between those astonishing locations Assisi and Cortona, you will stop at the Trasimeno lake for your lunch while admiring the spectacular view of the lake's circular basin.