You won't find Umbertide, Italy, in most guidebooks. This town in northeast Umbria has little to recommend it: no churches with vibrant frescoes, no hilltop vistas, no Michelin-starred restaurants, not even a first-rate pizzeria.

Umbertide is so ordinary, in fact, that "The Companion Guide to Umbria," the 1969 classic armchair reader on the province, singles it out as the only second-tier town in the region that is not worth even a short visit.

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