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Bastia Umbra is a town of 19,471 inhabitants in the province of Perugia, situated on the plain between Perugia and Assisi, along the river Chiascio. Bastia Umbra, located in the plain dominated by Mount Subasio, is today an important economic center for the area of Assisi. The vocation of Bastia, in fact, can not be that tourism because a confrontation with the nearest centres would irreparably defeat, but although the 'prevailing aspect of' village is modern mould, in the nucleus of the country can find fortifications and buildings old. In Piazza Mazzini, for example, is the fourteenth century church of Santa Croce, characterized by limestone facade of white and pink typical of Subasio. The same material is also used in many other buildings in the area as the church of St. Clare in Assisi. Not far away, above a low hill, you can visit the Rocca S. Angelo, surrounded by walls and towers of the Middle Ages, houses one of the oldest of the Franciscan convent.
HISTORY
In Roman times was known as the Roman Insula, as was something of an island surrounded by water, "Lacus Umber", a large stretch of water that occupied the Valle Umbra, probably a marshland drained in the sixth century AD He had great importance in the centuries XIV-XV, when as a city-fortress contention was long from Perugia and Assisi. At the end won Perugia, and Bastia became the family feud Baglioni until the family (XVII century). In the middle of the seventeenth century passed to the Papal States that kept up to Italy.
Nearby, in S. Lucia and Bastiola are the bridges over the river Chiascio. Interesting also the church of Our Lady of Campaign and, in places cost, the church of St. Francescuccio, the Temple of S. Joseph and the Sanctuary of the Holy Crucifix.
 
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Umbria
Perugia