City of Perugia

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City of Perugia

Perugia is a city of 166,253 inhabitants of central Italy, capital of the province and the region of Umbria. It stands on a hill in the valley of the Tiber. Famous art cities rich in history and monuments, is an important cultural and economic destination of many tourists and students. It is home to one of the oldest University of the peninsula (founded 1308), as well as the greater University for foreigners in Italy.

Territory

Perugia lies on an acropolis hill rising to the average height of 450 m above sea level. At the highest point, Porta Sole, the height is 493 m above sea level, a feature that makes it the most populous Italian city between those items (the altitude of the town hall) at an altitude of more than 250 meters above sea level. The center develops around this point, partly surrounded by the ancient Etruscan and medieval walls, the rest goes all around the city area to 280 m above sea level in the valley of the ground plane. The municipality, however, comes to 170 m above sea level, touched near the river Tiber, which marks the southern border with the territory of Torgiano.

Perugia seems built on a single hill, but in reality are two: the hill of the Sun and that of Landoni. The maximum depression between two hills extending from the ditch of Santa Margherita, on the east, the ditch of Cupa, to the west. In Etruscan times they chose this area as rich in water, but soon it was realized that the terrain was also pretty landslide.
To the north, the peaks of Monte Acuto Tezio and separate it from the mountain town of Umberleigh, while a strip of territory touches the far west, the hills surrounding Lake Trasimeno. To the east, finally, the foothills of the Umbria-Marche, the hills keep in touch with the territories of the town of Assisi and Gubbio.

The Fontana Maggiore (1275-1278) is one of the main monuments of the city and of the medieval sculpture.

It consists of two concentric polygonal marble basins surmounted by a bronze cup. The two concentric polygonal basins are decorated in finely carved bas-reliefs by Nicola and Giovanni Pisano at the bottom are represented the symbols and scenes of traditional agrarian and feudal culture, the months of the year with signs of the zodiac and the liberal arts, Bible and the history of Rome in the top are depicted in statues at the corners of biblical and mythological characters.

Archeological areas

* The Etruscan well from the second half of the third century BC and was in antiquity the main source of water supply in the city. About 40 m deep, has also served as a tank, and is located in Piazza Danti.
* The Hypogeum Volumni is an underground Etruscan tomb of the late second century BC Located in the Necropolis of Palazzone (VI-V century BC) and located in today's village of Ponte San Giovanni, was the family tomb of Arnth Veltimna Aules .
* Hypogeum Villa Sperandio (II century BC).
* Etruscan tomb of San Manno (III century BC), in the district Horseshoe.
* The Mosaic of Orpheus and the fairs of St. Elizabeth is a work of Roman craftsmen of the second century, stood near the ancient Roman baths.

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