Allerona

The name comes from the strawberry trees that once filled the woods south of this hill village, which kept watch for Orvieto on the road towards Chiusi. Stretches of wall and two medieval gates, Porta del Sole and Porta della Luna, still enclose the old centre between the Paglia valley and the Valdichiana. Fog often settles in the valley below, leaving the village standing clear above it.

Highlights

• Santa Maria Assunta, with a Niccolò Alunno panel and a Pordenone fresco
• Pugnaloni floats of farm life for Saint Isidore, third Sunday of May
• Villa Cahen, an 1880 estate with an Italian garden of rare trees
• Parco di Villalba, oak woods with more than thirty kinds of wild orchid
• Argilae wines, named after the local clay, tasted at Allerona Scalo

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