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Umbria shopping
Unless you've come to buy food and wine, this is not the best part of Italy for shopaholics, though Perugia does have its share of elegant fashion boutiques and design shops. Umbria's strengths are its traditional crafts: ceramics (centered on the town of Deruta, south of Perugia) and textiles—particularly woolen and cashmere products.
Italy's cashmere king has his home base in the tiny village of Solomeo, west of Perugia. Here, about 400 workers turn top-quality Mongolian cashmere into the...more
Flanking the busy E45 superstrada about ten miles south of Perugia, the modern-day ceramics factories of Deruta are the successors of workshops that have been...more
Umbria has a long tradition of textile manufacture and hand weaving, including embroidery and lace making (the latter concentrated in the Lake Trasimeno area)....more
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