In Umbria, fortified castle keeps are as common as Fiats. The building of castles seems to have been a habit of those papal states that girdled the areas of Lazio, Marche, Emilia-Romagna, and Umbria, and it’s lucky for us such a habit gained momentum over time. Reschio, the 11th-century castello that sits foursquare on a jutting hilltop above the valley of Pierle in ever-green Umbria, is the jewel in the crown of those former papal states. And how bright it glistens still.
Indeed, the castle shimmers in the sunlight as we make our long winding
