We're leaving from Orvieto and on our way to Assisi would like to stop for a few hours in either Todi or Montefalco. Any preference between the 2, and why? We love photo ops, and places that make you go Awwwwwwwww! (but then again, who doesn't??)<BR>Thanx!

Laura: I spend a couple of weeks every year in or near Bevagna, which is near both Todi and Montefalco. Email me and we can, perhaps, mutually figure out what's best for you in the area. Ciao.

Laura<BR><BR>Stop for lunch @ the Umbria Ristorante in Todi. The view is wonderful &amp; the food is vg. After lunch, explore the main piazza &amp; walk the Etruscan, Roman &amp; Medieval walls. A nice small town feel.<BR><BR>Ian

Laura, on the opposite end of the piazza from the main church there is a smaller church with a small man trying to hide behind one of the exterior columns. You should try to see him.

Stop in Todi, since it is enroute, and spend an hour. Then get to Spello for your photo ops--also enroute. Save some film for Assisi, and do not miss Bevagna later in the week. I was not impressed with Montefalco.

I second Bob's advice. Todi is wonderful, as is Spello and Bevagna - you can't go wrong.

Bob, plz tell me why you like Bevagna and weren't impressed with Montefalco. <BR><BR>Thank you.<BR>-Laura- <BR>

I have to say a word in favor of Montefalco. My wife and I spent four days there last November and found it very beautiful, although we had our better meals in nearby Bevagna. Montefalco is high up (it's sometimes called the Balcony of Umbria) and we could watch the shadows of clouds moving across the valley from our windows. At night, Montefalco was quiet, eerily so (this can be said of many of the small Umbrian hill towns, of course) and the narrow streets, many of them accessible only by foot, descend like spokes into the darkness.<BR>I do agree with Bob though that Spello, Bevagna are also very worth seeing.

I was there in the rain and it seemed spooky to me. It is worth a stop, but I feel the others are better.