GUBBIO AND THE BIGGEST CHRISTMAS TREE IN THE WORLD

Late morning arrival in Fabriano, visit of the historic center starting from the Duomo (rebuilt in 1617 and dedicated to San Venanzo), Pojo, The Teatro Gentile, the Oratorio della Carità, Sant’Onofrio and the Crypt of San Romualdo. Guided tour of the Paper and Watermark Museum where you can learn all the steps of the handmade paper processing. Transfer to the hotel for dinner and overnight.

Breakfast at the hotel, transfer to Gubbio defined as “gray city”, for the compact and uniform color of the limestone blocks with which this beautiful village is built. Visit the historic center with the Piazza Grande, Palazzo dei Consoli and Palazzo Pretorio, the Palazzo Ducale, the Basilica of S. Ubaldo. The Christmas period offers beautiful emotions like the biggest Christmas tree in the world! Made on the slopes of Mount Ingino, the Christmas Tree of Gubbio consists of over 300 light of various colors, able to achieve an absolutely special and unique color effect, connected by about 8,500 meters of electrical cables. For its gigantic size in 1991 entered in the Guinness Book of Records as the world’s largest Christmas tree, in fact it has a base of 450 meters, for over 750 meters high, starting from the city medieval walls to the basilica of the patron saint Sant’Ubaldo at the top of the mountain covering, in total, an area of about 130 thousand square meters Also in the historic center there is a traditional Christmas market, where stands and stalls offer typical food and wine products, decorations, gift ideas, etc… In addition all the streets of the district San Martino, in the city center, become a crib, with the reconstruction of an ancient Gubbio inhabited by the figures of the nativity scene. Free lunch. End of services.