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San Pellegrino
A Frazione of Gualdo Tadino

A town in NE Umbria, a frazione of Gualdo Tadino: 43°15.9N, 12°44.3E. Altitude: 490 m. Population in 2001: 319.

The little side street you see above is somewhat misleading: in my one visit of S. Pellegrino in the summer of 2000, the village, though small, gave me a feeling of liveliness and prosperity and I was grateful for a good caffé right on the busy main square, a place from which to watch the life of the town with a cold drink on a very hot day.

[ 5/27/09: 2 pages, 3 churches, 4 photos ] Both the churches, Madonna delle Grazie and S. Pellegrino after which the town is named, were closed, unfortunately; my little placeholder page collects some photographs, and further information about some of the town's other churches past and present.

Looking SSW onto  S. Pellegrino in a telephoto view from  the house where I lived in the summer of 2000. The old core of the village hugs the hill of Monte Camera; the "tail" of modern houses stretching to the left tells us where the center of the township is: it extends toward Gualdo, of course, 5 km SE. [and if you need it, here's help in using the map, including my own symbols & added information.]

Postscript: Other Places by the same Name

There are many places in Italy called San Pellegrino, many of them owing their name to a similar story of a stranded medieval pilgrim. If you merely landed on this page on the vagaries of a search engine, and what you've just read doesn't match the place you're looking for, this is probably not it and you need to narrow its location down a bit better.

In Umbria alone, I know of at least three; the others are a frazione of Norcia, and a place near Narni, both south of here; differentiated in the standard way as S. Pellegrino di Norcia and S. Pellegrino di Narni: I haven't been to either of them, but I've marked them  on the map as well; zoom out 6 levels. There are also churches of S. Pellegrino in even more places.

Finally, Umbria is just one of twenty Italian regions; four full-fledged townships by the name are found: two in Tuscany, in Firenze and Pistoia provinces; and two in Emilia-Romagna, in Reggio Emilia and Modena provinces. The place where the water is bottled may also be the one you're looking for — S. Pellegrino Terme in Bergamo province, Lombardy: but these five are just the larger ones, so do your research!

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