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.