Discover Umbria with us! Vacation rentals & private tours

New Apartments Available for 2025

Fabulous! 3 Bedrooms with terrace

The Palazzo’s Piano Nobilethe Noble Floor — is available for the first time. A spectacular three bedroom apartment with lots of space, 3 bedrooms, 2 living rooms, and a fantastic kitchen with adjacent terrace for eating.  This is really Palazzo living at it’s finest. Perfect for a family event. (Add other apartments to suit the whole family.)
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2 Bedrooms with wonderful terrace

Another new offering is what people have been asking for for years – a two bedroom with 2 baths. This lovely apartment has a beautiful terrace with a view over the valley. Truly a wonderful apartment for a family or two couples. Again, add other apartments and bring everyone along. 
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The second new offering is what people have been asking for for years – a two bedroom 2 bath. This lovely apartment has a beautiful terrace with a view over the valley. Truely a wonderful apartment for a family or two couples. Again, add other apartments and bring everyone along. 

aWeekinUmbria is eager to share all that Umbria has to offer — beautiful hill towns, great art, splendid churches, spectacular countrysides, and extraordinary wine and cuisine.
Why not let us plan a wonderful week tour. You pick the theme or do a little of everything — hill towns, cooking lessons, wine tastings, you name it. We will do everything possible to help you have a wonderful and safe visit.

private apartments in an historic palazzo

The beautifully restored Palazzo Fiumi-LaPlaca awaits you.

Discover the beautifully restored Palazzo Fiumi-LaPlaca in the historic center of the walled town of Bettona. Conveniently located — between Perugia and Assisi— in the center of Umbria with easy access to all of major roads, the perfect place from which to discover all that Umbria has to offer.

Explore the fabled cities of Assisi, Perugia, Orvieto, and Spoleto – to name but a few. Savor Umbrian cuisine and wine with a mixture of home cooked meals, visits to extraordinary local restaurants, and wine tastings. Discover intimate villages and hill towns or shop for world famous ceramics in Deruta, and you’ll enjoy breathtaking views all along the way.

In addition to offering fully furnished apartments, several rooms can be rented as a B&B. Check our GIALLO and AZZURO rooms on the main floor of the palazzo. Each are furnished with beautiful antiques and a private bathroom.

Choose from five private apartments with full kitchens:

ASSISI – 2-Bedroom Apartment: sleeps 4 people and features views over the valley toward Assisi; full kitchen, full bath with tub & shower, and private balcony with table and chairs. FIND OUT MORE >

CRISPOLTO – 2-Bedroom Apartment:  sleeps up to 5 people (with a twin size daybed – perfect for young adult or child), full kitchen, full bath with shower. FIND OUT MORE >

GUFO – 1-Bedroom Apartment:  sleeps 2 with a spiral staircase to the sleeping loft; full kitchen, full bath with shower. FIND OUT MORE >

• TERRACE – 2-Bedroom Apartment: Sleeps 4 people and features a private terrace, full kitchen, 2 full baths. FIND OUT MORE >

PIANO NOBILE – 3-Bedroom Noble Floor: sleeps 6 people, each room with private bath, fabulous full kitchen with adjacent terrace for dining. FIND OUT MORE >

Join us for a spectacular week-long UmbriaOutdoorAdventureTour. In addition to the great accommodations, food, wine, and wonderful cultural and art sites you will visit, enjoy 3 full or half day Active Adventures. Running, biking, hiking, horseback riding, Vespa riding, tennis, golf, you name it. Check us out: 

Welcome LGBTQ Friends

Palazzo Fiumi-LaPlaca extends a warm welcome to the LGBT community where you can relax in a gay friendly environment.
Drop me a line at [email protected] if you have any questions or want more information about staying here.

join us for a special themed tour in 2024

SPRING 2025 UPDATE: Join us for one of our extraordinary tour packages. Tours of 4 to 8 people are being offered.
 Please write and ask for updates on an existing tour or for planning one with your own interests at heart: [email protected]

Knitting Workshop and tour with André de Castro
2025 dates to be announced

Please join knitwear Designer and Instructor André de Castro has he returns to Umbria for an exciting tour. Enjoy five 3-hour workshops and lots of knitting time with Andre.
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Special personalized knitting tours — your choice of subject and dates —are also available.  Write [email protected]

Book Club tour
Forming Nov, 2025

Participants will receive the 3 chosen books to read prior to your arrival in Italy. The second part of the book club will take place in Italy — yes Italy— where I will lead you on a, 7-day tour to discover the places, experiences, and flavors you will have read about.
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Cooking tours are what we do best!

Umbria has been discovered recently, or so tourism publications will have you believe, and for (surprise, surprise) our extraordinary food and wine.  aWeekinUmbria specializes in culinary adventures. I have been organizing culinary tours of Umbria for 12 years and guests are blown away by some of the lessons. I customize tours for each group with a mix of lessons in restaurants and at home. Come learn with local chefs the secrets flavor of Umbrian cooking; visit an organic farm; cheese making demonstration; truffle hunt, and more.
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Private customized tours are available anytime mid-April–mid-Nov. Minimum 4 people.

Spring Culinary Adventure
May 2025, dates TBA

The extraordinary Maria Luisa Scolastra treats us to 3 lessons in her kitchen at Villa Roncalli. In addition, lessons closer to home including friends willing to impart their special recipes. AND you’ll get to enjoy Umbria’s Cantine Aperte – wine festival!
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Culinary Tour/Olive Harvest
Nov 2025, dates TBA

Maria Luisa Scolastra again will lead us with 3 lessons at Villa Roncalli. In addition, you’ll discover the process of making olive oil — from collecting to pressing. So much fun all around.
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Events

Festival of San Crispolto

MAY 11, 2025
Celebrating Bettona's patron saint. Highlight is a procession around the town walls and a fireworks just outside the walls. (Fabulous view ...
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Cantine Aperte

MAY 24 & 25, 2025
The last Sunday of May is always Cantina Aperta in Umbria. Loads of wineries are open for tours and wine ...
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Bevagna Gaite

APRIL 24-27 & JUNE 18 – 29, 2025
The town of Bevagna transforms it's self into a Medieval borgo with events, performances, stalls of ...
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Spello’s Infiorata

JUNE 21 & 22, 2025
The feast of Corpus Domini (the Body of Christ) is one of the most spectacular events in Umbria. Spello's streets ...
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Perugia 1416

JUNE 5 – 8, 2025
Street performers, costumed lords and ladies, and a spectacular parade return Perugia to its medieval heyday.
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Umbria Pride

JULY 5, 2025 in Terni
Our PRIDE is showing. Join in the celebration with a wonderful parade – this year – through the streets ...
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Umbria Jazz Festival

JULY 11 – 20, 2025
Join us for the fabulous Umbria Jazz Festival, one of the most important jazz festivals in the world. Come and ...
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Sagra dell’Oca

JULY 25 – AUGUST 3, 2025
Bettona is justifiably renown for some of the best goose dishes offered. 10 nights of great food and ...
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Bettona Crossing

Sat, SEPTEMBER 27, 2025
Join us for our 7th and even better event. GO BETTONA!!!
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Eurochocolate

NOVEMBER 14-23, 2025
A must for chocolate lovers. Perugia's streets are once again filled with artisanal chocolates to suit everyone's taste.
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Festa della Cipolla

SEPTEMBER 2025 date TBA
A fabulous festival celebrating the famous onions of Cannara.
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