TUORO
SUL TRASIMENO
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Chiesa di San Salvatore
Isola Maggiore
Campo del Sole
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Tuoro sul Trasimeno
In the Late Middle Ages, this town (309m a.s.l.) rose on a site which had witnessed one of the most disastrous and legen-dary battles of ancient times, in which more than 16,000 Roman soldiers lost their lives, wiped out in 217 B.C. by the army of Hannibal the Carthaginian.
Not far from the town is the Pieve di Confine, a romane-sque building of the early XIIth century.
Also the Castle of Monte Gualandro (442m a.s.l.) is easily reached.
The Isola Maggiore, second in size of the three Trasimeno islands, forms part of Tuoro territory. Its name is linked to a legend about St. Francis, said to have set foot here one stormy night in 1211.
The hamlet preserves the picturesque aspect of a XVth century fishermen's village, and the poet Matteo dell'Isola was born here.
Higher above is the romanesque Church of S. Salvatore (XIIth century) and the remains of an Ottocento villa of the Guglielmi Marquesses, built on the former site of the Convent of the Observant Minorites, founded in 1328.
worth seeing …
Permanent Documentation Centre of the Battle of Trasimeno
The Centre, inaugurated in the early months of 1996, brings together a permanent exhibition on the subject of Hannibal and the various theories about the Battle of Trasimeno. The visit to the Documentation Centre is a preparation for following the historic/archaeological route of the Battle. By utilising the various stopping-places along the route, it is possible to identify the areas where the confrontation took place, and to visit the "ustrina", the huge pits which Hannibal had dug to burn the corpses.
Campo del Sole (Field 0f the sun)
This is an architectural entity of sculptures, situated at Punta Navaccia, at Lido di Tuoro. Numerous sculptors contributed to the work in the course of five years from 1985 to 1989. The exhibit is in the form of a large spiral marked by 27 sculpted columns leading to a central table surmounted by a solar symbol.
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