Gubbio

Town in Umbria region, central Italy, on a southwest slope of the Apennines 35 km/22 mi northeast of Perugia; population (1991) 30,500. Gubbio was known in Renaissance times for its maiolica (white, tin-glazed earthenware), and this is still imitated in a few factories and workshops here. The town has retained its medieval character, and has a Gothic cathedral (partly 12th-century) and other ancient churches and fine palaces.

The Eugubine Tables (inscribed bronze tablets, 2–1 BC), discovered in 1444, are kept in the museum at Gubbio. St Francis of Assisi worked here among the lepers in the early 13th century, and is supposed to have tamed a fierce wolf here.