Destination Weddings in Spello

Each June the village of Spello, just around the hill from Assisi, celebrates its annual Infiorate, or dried flower festival.

The night before the Infiorate the men and women of the town, having divided into groups, begin tracing chalk outlines, planned months in advance on the pavement of the piazza and surrounding streets. Meanwhile children and old widows in black sit on the sidelines in wooden chairs separating by color dried and fresh flower petals of all kinds.

As dusk approaches the Spellini begin very carefully to scatter inside the traced outlines box after box of color flower petals until the whole town bursts forth in a vast array of colors masterpieces.

Until dawn Spello is an enormous coloring book in which nature provides the crayons. Strict rules prohibit dyeing or in any other way artificially enhancing the petals.

The city hall is being remodeled and is a small museum displaying all kinds of antiquities. Roman ruins and design prevail throughout the entire medieval town making it the most original of towns of Umbria. Two local restaurants are capable of setting up world class gourmet wedding receptions that will stand up to any top European cuisines.