Umbria Experience-Gubbio
Date from: Tuesday, November 20, 2018
Date to: Friday, February 22, 2019
Saturday, March 2 –Sunday, March 3, 2019
Cost: €160
Deadline to sign-up and pay is by 5:00pm on Friday, Feb. 21, 2018
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Students must be 18 or older to participate in athletics trips.
Description: The city's origins are very ancient. The hills above the town were already occupied in the Bronze Age. As Ikuvium, it was an important town of the Umbri in pre-Roman times, made famous for the discovery there of the Iguvine Tablets in 1444, a set of bronze tablets that together constitute the largest surviving text in the Umbrian language. After the Roman conquest in the 2nd century BC — it kept its name as Iguvium — the city remained important, as attested by its Roman theatre, the second-largest surviving in the world.
Gubbio became very powerful in the beginning of the Middle Ages. The town sent 1000 knights to fight in the First Crusade under the lead of Girolamo Gabrielli, and according to an undocumented local tradition, they were the first to penetrate into the Church of the Holy Sepulchre when the city was seized (1099).
The following centuries were quite turbulent, and Gubbio was engaged in wars against the surrounding towns of Umbria.
The historical centre of Gubbio has a decidedly medieval aspect: the town is austere in appearance because of the dark grey stone, narrow streets, and Gothic architecture. Many houses in central Gubbio date to the 14th and 15th centuries, and were originally the dwellings of wealthy merchants.
The Bottaccione Gorge: is a deep incision with vertical walls between Mount Ingino and Mount Foce, also known as Mount Calvo. It is an important natural scientific site and is also rich in historical-artistic testimonies. The site is a result of the erosion of the Camignano stream over two-three million years. The stream still flows at the bottom of the valley. The rocks represent a complete and unique stratigraphic sequence - they date back to the Jurassic, Cretaceous and most of the Cenozoic eras. The different types of fossils found in the rocks have enabled the study of the environmental conditions in which they formed, that is why the Bottaccione Gorge is also known as the "Earth archive".
Schedule:
1st day:
Departure 7.30AM: arriving in Gubbio around 10.15AM, check in in the hotel. At 11.30 we will go Hike Monte Cucco + optional (extra 15€) visit to the Grottos of Monte Cucco. Packed lunch provided. Around 3PM we will visit the Roman Theater and the city of Gubbio. At 7.30 PM Dinner at La Cantina with a typical Umbrian dinner.
2nd day:
9.00AM we will hike The Bottaccione Gorge and on the way (around 1PM – Packed lunch provided) back to Gubbio we will get the cableway to the Basilica di Sant’Ubaldo above Gubbio. Then Hike all the way down. Around 6PM we will head back to Rome. Arriving at Tiber Campus around 8.30PM.
Minimum Number of Participants Required 7.
Maximum Number of Participants: 16.
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