Todi, Umbria, Italy - main shopping street and grand piazza

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We are taking another look at Todi in Umbria, Italy, featuring all new scenes.
Spending some quality time on the main shopping street, and in the grand piazza, a fine place to see the locals of all ages out playing, and strolling and talking with their friends. It's the most historic part of town. We will also walk along some of the interesting side streets.
Some lanes turn into staircases, because Todi is a hill town, and from different perspectives you get great views looking out across the countryside.
You'll see a beautiful fountain right along the central part of the main shopping street on the small Piazza Bartolomeo d’Alviano. The eagle statue at the center is a symbol of the city of Todi. Traditionally he's the bird that chose this location to build a city, with shops and pizzerias nearby.
Todi only has one main shopping street. Here it is called Corso Cavour, and a little bit lower down, it changes names to via Roma, lined with very interesting shops for locals and visitors alike. Coming out of the southeast corner of Piazza Del Popolo, you can't miss it.
The streets were obviously laid out way before there was any automobiles, perhaps as far back as the Roman times, and they were for pedestrians, and horses, and cows, and goats and other animals, but now it's adapted to the modern world where we can have a mix of cars and people.
Of course, being Italy, you will always find wonderful places to eat – pizza, pasta and salad are the basics, accompanied by some local wine, perhaps at an outdoor terrace that offers a spectacular view across the countryside.
Corso Cavour runs along the hillside ridge but you can easily walk down and get a different view, looking straight across into the town itself, looking across the fertile farmlands of the valley and then back up at the town. Return up a convenient staircase and you're soon back on the main street again.
This is part three of our series on this wonderful hilltown.

We've also got videos about other cities in Umbria, including Spoleto, Perugia and Gubbio