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READ MOREA major achievement for the Benedictine monks of the Abbey of Norcia: their Birra Nursia won three awards at the Untappd Community Awards, prestigious honors in the craft beer world. The monks from Umbria earned gold for the best Italian Belgian Tripel, silver for their Blonde in the Belgian Blonde category, and bronze for their Extra in the Belgia...
READ MOREThe "7% solution" is a formula to stop the depopulation of historic villages in the heart of Italy: a flat tax reduced to the bare minimum for pensioners who decide to relocate to the "crater" affected by the 2016 earthquake. Will it work? "Here in Norcia people haven’t fled. But when I visit other towns in the area, I see that the situation is ble...
READ MOREThe historic core of Norcia is enclosed by 13th-century walls which form a unique heart shape. Along the perimeter the eight ancient village gates can be seen, which have preserved the names and characteristics of the past, together with the medieval towers. Entering from the Roman Gate and walking along the 19th-century Corso Sertorio, the visito...
READ MOREOn Monday, October 30 at 7.40am — exactly seven years after a magnitude 6.6 earthquake struck central Italy — the Basilica di San Benedetto in Norcia, a small Umbrian town near the epicenter of the disaster, held its first mass since 2016. Many local and regional authorities, including President of the Region of Umbria Donatella Tesei, were in atte...
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