The upper valley of the Tiber is located geographically in the extreme north of Umbria. The district is composed of characteristic medieval towns and villages, full of history and art, in perfect equilibrium between old and modern, tradition and progress.

Citerna, Montone, Pietralunga and Monte Santa Maria Tiberina, of ancient origin, combine the beauty of their panoramic position with the sobriety of medieval town planning. Umbertide, San Giustino and Lisciano Nicone, with their castles, hermitages and monasteries, are witness to a dynamic social, artistic and religious past.

Città di Castello, located almost in the centre of the valley and rich in medieval and Renaissance monuments, is the most important and heavily populated centre.

The 16th century city walls still surround the town which boasts an important medieval and Renaissance artistic and architectural patrimony. The Palazzo Vitelli alla Cannoniera, built between the 15th and the 16th centuries, the Municipal Art Gallery, housing famous works of Raffaello, Luca Signorelli, Giovanni and Andrea della Robbia, Pomarancio, etc., the Cathedral of San Florido (11th century), restored and partially rebuilt in the course of the centuries, and the Cathedral Museum, which houses the Treasure of Canoscio, a liturgical set of the paleo-Christian era, and, among its paintings, a work by Pinturicchio, all well deserve a visit.

Città di Castello is the birthplace of Alberto Burri, one of the major representatives of Italian contemporary art. His collected works in the Palazzo Albizzini and in the Ex Tobacco Drying Warehouse, totalling 257, were done between 1948 and 1993.

Local crafts find their most valid expression in the production of period furniture and ceramics, in weaving (for example the famous Laboratorio della Tela Umbra a Mano - the Umbrian Handmade Linen Workshop), in the working of iron, in the goldsmith’s trade and in typography.

The traditional local cuisine is the expression of the peasant culture with its genuine, true flavours, based on the excellent typical products of the area with, in first place, the white truffle.