Tourist path

Gubbio and the Monte Cucco Nature Reserve

The Bottaccione or Iridio Ravine: educational excursion which takes you through the town of Gubbio and up to the ravine cut out by the Camignano torrent, which is a geological site of world renown. A journey to find out about rocks, the history of the Earth and the Apennines, fossils and …why the dinosaurs became extinct.
Duration 3 hours, cost €120,00

The Monte Cucco Nature Reserve

Through woods, valleys and along torrents: an educational excursion through centuries-old woods, uncontaminated valleys and by limpid mountain torrents. Observing nature, the animals and plants and learning how to recognise and respect them. Man and the natural world, the ancient occupations of the mountains.
Duration 3 hours, cost €120,00

Water and its cycle outside and inside the mountains, from the clouds to the springs, the waterways in the mountains, educational excursion about preserving and safeguarding our supplies of water.
Duration 3 hours, cost €120,00

Visit to the Villa Scirca springs: one of the most historically important hydraulic works in Umbria, water and its uses, aqueducts and hydro-electric power.
Duration 2 hours, cost €120,00, ample advance booking required

The Monte Cucco Cave

Educational excursion visiting the cave and discovering the world underground, the history of the ancient explorers, how underground caves are formed, animal life in the darkness.
(from April to November, duration 3 hours, €10 per child, minimum age 8)

The Monte Cucco Nature Reserve Museum Workshop: interactive museum offering animations, relief maps and models to present the Apennines, their rocks, caves, underground waterways, fossils, flora and fauna.
Duration 2 hours, €5 per child

The Abbies itinerary: a trip to discover the centres of culture and spirituality that were the hermit settlements in the Apennines. Guided visits to the Abbies of St. Emiliano in Congiuntoli, Sitria and Fonte Avellana.
Duration 3-4 hours, €8 per child

Gubbio – Civic Museum

Guided tour €2.50 per child
or educational workshops €5 per child

• Exploring the world of writing: from clay tablets to medieval manuscripts
• Innocent forgery: the technique of graffito to reproduce black-figure and red-figure pottery
• Learning how to do illumination in the workshop of Oderisi da Gubbio
• Archaeologists for a day: fun at the dig
• Take a leap into embossing!

The Dinosaur Exhibition in Gubbio: tracing their extinction

Guided tour €5 per child
or educational workshops €7 per child

• Traces from the Past and …the Present
• Palaeontologist for a day: a palaeontological dig
• Making a plaster cast; let’s stratify!

Museum of Rural Culture

Guided tour and educational workshop €5

• Discovering hemp
• Hands-on cookery (‘crescia’ or flatbread)
• Hands-on cookery (egg noodles)
• Cookery activity workshops linked to the calendar cycle of festivities:- Carnival time… Let’s saw the ‘Vecchia’!
  – Here comes Easter!
  – A sweet Christmas

Arrival and allocation of hotel rooms
Guided tour of the town accompanied by an official guide
Duration: 2 hours. Cost: 120,00 €.

LUNCH

Gubbio Civic Museum:

guided tour or educational workshops

• Exploring the world of writing: from clay tablets to medieval manuscripts
• Innocent forgery: the technique of graffito to reproduce black-figure and red-figure pottery
• Learning how to do illumination in the workshop of Oderisi da Gubbio
• Archaeologists for a day: simulation of a dig
• ; Take a leap into embossing!; learning about and applying the technique of embossing on copper)
• The Dinosaur Exhibition in Gubbio: tracing their extinction
  Guided tour or educational workshops
  Traces from the Past and …the Present Palaeontologist for a day: a palaeontological dig
• Making a plaster cast
• let’s stratify!

Museum of Rural Culture

Guided tour and educational workshop

• Discovering hemp
• Hands-on cookery (‘crescia’ or flatbread)
• Hands-on cookery (egg noodles)

Cookery activity workshops linked to the calendar cycle of festivities:

– Carnival time… Let’s saw the ‘Vecchia’!
– Here comes Easter!
– A sweet Christmas

Gubbio and the Monte Cucco Nature Reserve

The Bottaccione or Iridio Ravine: educational excursion which takes you through the town of Gubbio and up to the ravine cut out by the Camignano torrent, which is a geological site of world renown. A journey to find out about rocks, the history of the Earth and the Apennines, fossils and …why the dinosaurs became extinct.
Duration 3 hours, cost €120,00

The Monte Cucco Nature Reserve

Through woods, valleys and along torrents: an educational excursion through centuries-old woods, uncontaminated valleys and by limpid mountain torrents. Observing nature, the animals and plants and learning how to recognise and respect them. Man and the natural world, the ancient occupations of the mountains.
Duration 3 hours, cost €120,00

Water and its cycle outside and inside the mountains

from the clouds to the springs, the waterways in the mountains, educational excursion about preserving and safeguarding our supplies of water.
Duration 3 hours, cost €120,00

Visit to the Villa Scirca springs

one of the most historically important hydraulic works in Umbria, water and its uses, aqueducts and hydro-electric power.
Duration 2 hours, cost €120,00, ample advance booking required

The Monte Cucco Cave

Educational excursion visiting the cave and discovering the world underground, the history of the ancient explorers, how underground caves are formed, animal life in the darkness.
(from April to November, duration 3 hours, €10 per child, minimum age 8)

The Monte Cucco Nature reserve museum workshop

Interactive museum offering animations, plastics and models to present the Apennines, their rocks, caves, underground waterways, fossils, flora and fauna.
Duration 2 hours, €5 per child

The Abbies itinerary

a trip to discover the centres of culture and spirituality that were the hermit settlements in the Apennines. Guided visits to the Abbies of St. Emiliano in Congiuntoli, Sitria and Fonte Avellana.
Duration 3-4 hours, €8 per child