Famous art cities, rich in history and monuments, proud of its past and its traditions, Perugia stands “suddenly on a hill” (Charles Dickens), overlooking the Tiber Valley and the Valley of Umbria.

Perugia is home to one of the oldest University d ‘Italia, as well as the greater University for foreigners in Italy, the city is now a major focal point and destination for many tourists and students.

Art and History: How many Italian cities, Perugia embodies the concept of “widespread Museum”, art and history are not only locked in museums Perugini, but pervade every corner of its territory.

Walking through the city streets, an accomplice and veiled light suffused the evening, you can breathe the charm of an atmosphere of other times and go to discovery of open spaces that open suddenly behind dedali of alleys, giving unforgettable views.

Heart button of the city is Corso Vannucci, which takes its name from the great painter Pietro Vannucci, known as Perugino, always gremito of people, whose ends are opened Piazza Italia and the famous Piazza IV Novembre. Wonderful frame on which overlook the cathedral and Palazzo dei Priori and the centre of which stands the magnificent Fontana Maggiore, sculptural masterpiece of John and Nicola Pisano, Piazza IV Novembre is an ideal bridge between past and present, ancient and modern, because continues, after hundreds of years, to be the core of social life of Perugia.

Cinta walled medieval Etruscan and then, the whole city of Perugia is studded with testimonies of the past, by ‘Arco Etruscan until the port of Sant’ Angelo, the Palazzo dei Priori until Palazzo del Capitano del Popolo, the Fountain of all Times’ Aqueduct Duecentesco, marvels that may reveal only through the historical streets and alleys lost between citizens.

Cooking: It’s along the streets of Perugia, in pianterreni of ancient palaces, which are small and rustic inns and restaurants where you can taste delicious local dishes.  The traditional cuisine of Perugia is made from natural ingredients simple as olive oil, truffle, porcini.

A recipe feature cuisine is pizza perugina Easter, a cake insaporita with salty pecorino. Among the main courses are both a wide variety of meat (pork, wild boar, lamb) and fish of Lake Trasimeno (a typical recipe is the tegamaccio, a fish soup very flavoured). Another speciality is the Parmesan of gobbi with meat sauce, mozzarella and Parmesan. The sweets are the torcolo San Costanzo, shaped like a doughnut with pine nuts, raisins and candied, and the ciaramicola, a torcolo with soft pink and white crust meringata, not to mention the great tradition of Perugina chocolate. Among the wines and do Montefalco, Torgiano and Colli Perugini.

Events: Perugia, a city alive, full of resources, every year there gives performances and events like: Umbria Jazz, which since 1973 is the most important festival of Jazz in Italy and one of the world’s most important, the festival falls in July ; Eurochocolate, the European chocolate festival held in October, the Fair of the Dead, a great popular fair held the first week of November since the Middle Ages; Marcia peace Perugia-Assisi, every two years, takes place in October And not miss the exhibition by Pinturicchio.

Trivia: Cross and delight of perugini is the Donca, the particularities of their dialect that characterizes the simpaticissima spoken protesa forward. If you want to learn to speak Perugia, the first thing you need to bring forward the arch bottom teeth, then protendere the jaw and limestone much the “D”. Only after hours of exercise, you can try to pronounce in Perugia “brodin de nut”, impossible to almost all non perugini!

Perugia has always been a city innovative in the field of public transport, in fact since 1980, has paths mechanised as escalators and lifts to connect the old town with the areas in the suburbs and since last January 2008 was inaugurated a small underground elevated