Texan Girl- Eating and Drinking Through Europe: Gubbio

On yet another day trip from Preci, we headed two hours away to Gubbio, a fantastic medieval town that is actually the best preserved one in Italy. We arrived just in time for lunch and to find out that there was a festival going on. We eventually found a place to park and headed into the town center. After walking for a bit, we headed for the nearest restaurant. That happened to be Taverna del Lupo.

The wine was fantastic. I opted for the four cheese ravioli as my starter. It was good. It wasn't the best, but it was good and filling. For my main, I had the beef with balsamic vinegar. It was good as well. This time the beef was served warm. It was a little chewy, but otherwise good.

I think what made it a nice meal was the atmosphere. We were able to sit outside in the shade. There were large groups of friends and family that were out having lunch and enjoying the festival. They were laughing, talking, singing and just in general enjoying life.

The festival is called the Corso dei Ceri. Three different groups get together and, for all intents and purposes, run around the town with statues of Saints. It starts at 6 am and ends with a huge feast in the early evening. Thankfully we missed the 6 am start up and were going to miss the large feast at the end. However, every group has their different colors and everyone in town was wearing one of the three variations- yellow and red, blue and red and black and red. Everyone wears white pants or skirts with it. I could have blended in had I known. I was wearing a blue dress and my legs are white enough to look like white pants. All I needed was a red bandanna.

After lunch, we took the cable car up to the top of the hill and had a fantastic view and then made our way back down. We walked through the city, ate some gelato and decided it was time to head. We made this decision since it seemed that they were gearing back up to start the festival again after taking a break for lunch.