Lake Trasimeno, Umbria
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We visited at Lake Trasimeno, near Perugia in Umbria at the end of May 2008. We stayed for one night in Passignano sul Trasimeno on the northern shores of the lake at La Vela Hotel. There’s an old town which affords the best views of the lake. The video was shot from there.
There’s a lake side promenade and you can take a ferry to the islands in the lake. It’s a pleasant small town with a fair selection of restaurants. We ate at Franco’s on the lakeside road. We had the two course 15 euros Tourist Menu which included the cover charge, water and bread. The food was really good quality with several pasta starters and fish main courses. I don’t think you could get this quality of food in the evening for this price in the UK.
The next morning we spend a couple of hours in Castliogne del Lago, another very pretty small town. There’s good access to the lake here. Lake Trasimeno is very shallow and you need to go out a fair distance if you want to swim. I just went for a paddle.
Castliogne sul Lago
Lake Trasimeno is not as dramatically attractive as Lake iseo, my favourite Italian lake in Lonbardy in the north of Italy. If you’re touring the area it’s well worth spending a day or two there as it makes a nice change to be by water but I can’t say that I’d recommend staying for longer.
June 17th, 2008 at 3:08 am
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June 17th, 2008 at 9:05 pm
Looks very nice Karen. I’m getting depressed reading blog posts on holiday destinations because I’ve not been anywhere yet, and I really need to get away for a week or two!
June 18th, 2008 at 5:28 am
Nice little video gives a good sense of the place. Wish I could understand what the people in the background were saying!
June 19th, 2008 at 11:30 am
Darren, do you have any holidays planned? You have been unlucky so far this year with your trips between illness and train delays.
June 19th, 2008 at 11:32 am
Marilyn, I think that videos do give you more of sense of the place as you see the panoramic views, so I plan to use videos in my blog posts regularly.