Perugia is the capital of the Umbria region, it is located in the top of a hill to 493 meters on the level of the sea and has about 180,000 inhabitants. The province of Perugia includes the North part of the region and the zone of Lago Trasimeno. The culture of the territory is destined in its majority to the production of cereals, vegetables, grape and olive.
In the province the forests and grass for the cattle do not need by where he is very pleasant to take a walk.
The urban weave connects with the nature demonstrating a strong feeling of property between man and territory, history and landscape.
The artistic center of the city is concentrated around the Piazza IV Novembre and of the walls, that belong to the prestigious Etruscan urban nucleus to which it was possible to be acceded thanks to his old doors (Sole Porthole, Porthole della Mandorla, Marzia Porthole, Trasimena Porthole, Porthole Cheats on and the Etruscan Arc).
The seat, one of prettiest of Italy, is characterized by the presence of Fontana Maggiore who was made in century XIII by architect Fra' Bevignate with the gorgeous sculptures of Nicola and Giovanni Pisano. This source is a splendid gothic example of the Italian that symbolizes the power political-nun of the city at its moment of greater apogee.
In addition, the seat is surrounded by different buildings from great importance, like for example, the Palazzo dei Priori, constructed between 1298 and 1353, with the facade of travertino marble and white and pink stone of Bettona. Inside this palace, in the ground floor, the rooms of the Collegio della Mercanzia and the Collegio of the Change can be admired, that were the influentes corporations of the city in the medieval period. In individual, in the wing of the palace that in 1400 belonged to the Cambiatori I gave Moneta, a series of splendid fresh was made by the Perugino.
Continuing to visit the seat, it is possible to be admired: the Cathedral of San Lorenzo that began to construct in 1300, the arcs of the Loggia I gave Braccio of 1423 with the rest of the Roman walls and Portale dello Scalza of gothic style.
Finally, the ruins of the strength of Rocca Paolina are important, constructed by the Pope Paolo III in 1540 with the project of Antonio it gives to Sangallo the Young person and later destruída in 1860.
Closely together from Perugia Monte Tezio with their 1000 meters of height and their exuberante vegetation arises that unites different habitats: maquia Mediterranean on the one hand and castañares by another one until arriving at the meadows and cultures.
This green atmosphere is an ideal place for that loves the nature and its great variety, where is not strange to be able to find sparrowhawks, woodpeckers, foxes and small mammals, in addition to the infaltables wild boars. Also the rest, scattered in the territory, that indicate the old presence of the Etruscan town and the past medieval of the city, related to the cycles and rates of the nature are very interesting.