Many retired Britons have chosen to settle around Lake Trasimeno for its culture, tourist attractions and natural beauty.



Castle ramparts at Castiglione del Lago.

One of the best quips about retiring to Italy is Gracie Field’s (about Capri): “I was looking for somewhere like Blackpool – only warmer”. Umbria and Tuscany, the areas chosen by about 6,000 Britons of retirement age, aren’t much like Blackpool, or even England’s south coast retirement belt stretching from Sidmouth to Bexhill-on-Sea, where it is said that residents hover between the public library and the cemetery