In spite of its modest dimension, the area is provided with a lot of facilities: there's a hospital in Amelia, 24 hours first aid ambulances, six "Carabinieri" stations, many bank counters. As for tourist information there's an APT (Tourist Promotion Authority) spot in Amelia, and quite a few "Pro-Loco", the local information offices.

How to move:

By car: it's the best way because it makes you reach the most beautiful and charming places even those off the beaten track

By bus: with ATC bus lines which link all the towns

Hiring a car a motorbike or a bike

On foot: the "Comunità Montana" has traced out, and provided with signs, six paths for trekking

Strolls:

Quite a few are the equipped parks immersed in the evergreen ilex grove and located in the nearby surroundings. Noteworthy: "La Cavallerizza" , where there's a small race-course and a ring path in the wood, good for relaxing strolls and for jogging; the "St. Sylvester Park" at Fornole, and the "Parco Mattia" at Porchiano, equipped for picnicking. 

A tradition since 1830: "The Girotti Figs"

The most known typical produce of the Amerino agribusiness is the "Fichi Girotti". They are sweets particularly tasty and rich in sugar. The figs are dried up, then cut and stuffed with a filling made of chocolate and candied fruit, chocolate and toasted almonds, or chocolate and walnuts. They undergo then an artisan press and are shaped in a sort of round tiles. All the working , at all stages, is handmade. Packing and graphic design unchanged for over a century. 

Handicraft:

Amerino is a hard-working land, with products which have preserved the working and characteristics of many centuries ago. The pottery in Guardea is hand-painted, while at Avigliano Umbro the blacksmiths often still use the forge to make red hot the iron to be struck. The marble working is an ancient tradition in Lugnano in Teverina and Guardea; Amelia has antique furniture restorers of high level. At Toscolano, Melezzole and Santa Restituta they still weave the chestnut bark to make baskets; with the wood, instead, barrels and ladders are made. 

Sport Center & "Barrels Town":

The sport center "La Macia" is provided with a soccer ground, a tennis court, a swimming pool, playgrounds and barbecue, where children and adults can enjoy themselves and spend some pleasant and healthy hours in direct contact with nature. Next to the sport facilities there is "Bottilandia" which is an animal village, where their shelters are made with barrels. 

Tourist Itineraries:

From Civitella one can easily reach: the archeological site of Roman age in Scoppieto, the castle of Salviano, the umbrian etruscan necropolis and the ruins of Copio in Montecchio, the cheerful village of Cerreto. Along the road that takes to Todi one can admire luxuriant woods, rich in local fauna, deep carsic gorges, the Sanctuary of Pasquarella and evoking rural villages such as Acqualoreto, Collelungo, Morre, Morruzze rich in history and monuments that testify it. On the shore of lake Corbara and in the vicinity one can visit the castle of Corbara, the benedectine Abbey of S. Gemini di Massa, the Franciscan Monastery in Pantanelli and the gorge of Forello. 

 It’s town that was built on the hill between the valleys of the Tiber and Nera, in a zone that is well known for its figs. Its polygonal walls, nowadays still viewable, date back to the VI and IV cent BC. Entering the country from the Porta Romana we can reach San Francesco Church, whose front is well-known for its nice Gothic portal and for the rosette; inside there are six tombs of Geraldini family, and, the most important of those, the one of Matteo Elisabetta, is by Agostino di Duccio. The Duomo, with a dodecagonal campanile in Romanesque style, stands in a panoramic square. The town hall contains an archaeological collection, medieval architectonic remains and paintings by Matteo d’Amelia.

It's quite unusual that a dam on a river, in our case the Tiber, especially if the purpose is the production of electric energy, would originate a marshy area. This happened at Alviano, simply because Enel utilizes twice the water utilized with the upstream basin at Corbara. This fact originated a 500 hectare marsh, a lake, some bogs, a hydric wood, namely an ecosystem fit for the reproduction and the rest of about 150 species of acquatic birds. The area is an important station of food supply for rare birds as cranes, wild geese or fish hawks. To enjoy the sight of these birs you must be lucky; you should happen to be here the days they have decided, during their migration, to stop at the Oasis of Alviano which
now has been made expressly for them. Part of the Oasis has been made for people as well, to allow them to enjoy these spectacular events. The entrance to the protected area is at Madonna del Porto, in the Comune of Guardea, along the Alviano Scalo-Baschi road. From here two nature trails start, totalling four kilometres. They are fitted up with hides for birdwatching, turrets, gangways and even an open air class-room, right in the middle of the marsh. On one of these trails you can stay for the whole day. Hidden inside the hides, you can enjoy unforgettable experiences, as if in the very middle of a splendid documentary. A few people may think impossible all tis can happen a few kilometres far from Rome. If you're a good photographer, with a telephoto lens not that powerful, you can take extraordinary pictures. The birds of the marsh are there all year long, but the best periods are those of the maximum availability of food. In autumn and winter it's possible to watch large flocks of coots and wild ducks because these birds feed on the plants that have multiplied during the summer. During the months of October and November it's not difficult to see stretches of water swarming with birds. In the whole area up to 7,000 of them can be counted. It's the period when more than 300 cormorants can be observed along with the skilful manoeuvres they use in fishing, sometimes chased by a heron or a seagull who's trying to rob them of a fish. Spring is instead the period of the biodiversity in the sense that any day is good for watching different species. It's the period of migration to Centre or Northern Europe where the birds will go for reproducing. The marsh of Alviano is too small a place for many of them. Much better the large plains of Lapland, but before getting there it's necessary to supply themselves with food and that's the important part places like the marsh of Alviano play for. One day we will be able to see the avocets and the stilts which are going to the Po delta, the next day the spoonbills going to Holland or the black shanks, waders who prefer the tundra of the Kola peninsula. The lover of this activity can choose these days for longer holidays, to enjoy at ease the incredible variety of the species he or she can watch.

  It sprang up because of the splitting up of Baschi in XI century, and was fortified by Normans in during the fight against Spoleto. The find of the necropolis bear witness to the settlements of the Umbrians and Etruscans in the territory. It was a blooming town between the VI and V century, and declined around the IV century BC because of the achievements of Todi. In 1165 the Chiaravalles built the first settlement of the “Castro Monticoli” Castle. Montecchio was disputed between Todi and Orvieto. In 1497 it was sacked by the army of Alessandro VI headed by Matteo da Canale. Before the XIX it had been a self-governing town and after became a hamlet of Baschi until 1948. It’s worthwhile visiting the castle and its walls, the parish church of Santa Marta, the Castle in Melezzole and the church of San Biagio, the Castle of Carnano, the Pre-Roman necropolis of San Lorenzo, with almost 3000 tombs in an area of about 100 hectares and in Tenaglie Palazzo Ancajani (XVII century).

Civitella del Lago is of roman origin, as it is testified by Plinio the younger who called it Vindinio of the Bindi. During the middle ages the town grew and it became an important stronghold of the city of Todi. The houses, in the suggestive center of town, are made of local travertine, and just looking at them remind in our mind the history of the vicissitudes that have happened, and of all the noble familes who ruled over it (Fredi, Atti ..). In those days the joint and several spirit of its inhabitants lead them to organize themselves in a comunity called Universitas or Comunanza Agraria which is still alive and working today.

Guardiola (Civitella del lago):

It's the Medieval Castle on Piazza Belvedere and a sentry post from which it was possible to control all the south east side of the territory.

Old Medieval Cistern (Civitella del lago):

Built during the middle ages to gather rain water it preserves the remains of the originary canalization made of stone and terra cotta panteles.

Atti's Palace (Civitella del lago):

Built in XVI century nowadays Pensi's Palace. On his side the bell-tower of the church, built over the remains of one angle tower.

Arc of Diomede (Civitella del lago):

In 1522 Venturino and Diomede, of the Atti family, built the houses, the alleys and the squares of the castle of Civitella and they marked the north western side of town with the magnificent arc which up to these days can still be admired. On the upper side of it, the inscription "Diomedes Aptus" indicates the name of the Count who had it built. Todi's nobleman wanted a similar one to be raised in his town.

The Crucifix (Civitella del lago):

In the Parish Church, there is a beautiful wooden crucifix, donated by Father Celestino Pensi to the congregation, in 1884. The sacred image probably dates back to the fifteenth centuryand its arms are movable so that it can be deposed on a funeral bed and carried around during traditional Friday's procession. This crucifix is very expressive and of wonderful workmanship.