PERUGIA

Perugia is an Italian town of 168,169 residents, the capital of Umbria. Town of art and monuments of history, is a major cultural and economic center, full of museums and libraries. Home to two universities with more than 40,000 members: the University, founded in 1308, and the University for Foreigners, the largest in Italy. From very ancient origins: the first settlements date back to the eleventh and found X BC The real center of Perugia is formed around the second half of the sixth century BC, Perugia soon became one of the most important Etruscan cities, acquiring and then by massive walls, still visible. In 295 BC, Perusia and most of Umbria into the orbit of Rome. The city was burnt down in 41 BC during a civil war. The Emperor Augustus rebuilt a few years later the city remodeling second Roman styles, while maintaining, at its core, the traffic system in Etruscan and Roman Empire the town grew beyond the Etruscan city. By that time you can see a well Etruscan also called Pozzo Sorbello, named after the noble family that owns the building above, the monument is an exceptional work of hydraulic engineering. Perugia was conquered in 493 by the Ostrogoths. In 537 the Byzantine troops clash with those Ostrogote right near Perugia. In 548 Totila stormed after a long siege the city and kill the bishop Herculaneum. With the end of the Ostrogoths and until the eighth century, the city remained under Byzantine rule, with the exception of two brief periods of occupation by the Lombards at the end of the sixth century. From the second half of the eighth century Perugia and its territory entering the sphere of influence of the Papacy, in turn constrained in various ways Carolingian Empire, and are regulated in the next two centuries by a Government bishop. In 1139 there was the first declaration of the Government of the Consuls and the birth of the municipality, in the second half of the century Perugia has a wide sphere of influence in the surrounding countryside, having expanded its territories to Gubbio and Citta di Castello to the north, and to Città della Pieve, Lake Trasimeno and the Val di Chiana west-southwest. In the thirteenth century the city extended its sphere of influence of Assisi (1205) and Foligno (1289) and experienced a massive urban development which will continue until the middle of the fourteenth century. The city is administered by a government merchant at the time, exercised by the Priors, elected by the members to the arts, and with headquarters in the Palazzo dei Priori with Gothic style. Perugia back in 1370 under the full control of the Church following the defeat in the war against Urban V. In the fifteenth century and the early decades of the next century, the city stands out as an important artistic center (just think of Pinturicchio and Perugino Pievese) and cultural (among the many that receive their training in Perugia there will also be the great Raphael and Pietro Aretino). Lordship also assume forms of domination of the city of the Baglioni family, between 1438 and the beginning of the sixteenth century. In 1540, as a result of an unfortunate war of salt (the bread is still done without salt) against Paul III Farnese, the city lost its freedom and its secular civic autonomy and goes back directly to the state of the Church obliges citizenship to build the imposing Rocca Paolina, which is setting up a papal garrison. From the mid-sixteenth century and up to the time of his reunion Italy (1860), are of this period many of the patrician houses that nowadays adorn Perugia (including buildings Donini, Della Penna, Gallenga-Stuart Constable and the bracket) and some prestigious baroque churches, the first being dedicated to St. Philip Blacks. After the unification of Italy, the new Italian government will prioritize its Perugia as capital of a large province, which extends to the Sabina. A few decades later, in the twenties of the twentieth century, this territory will be resized: Perugia is the capital of the region, but they are enshrined in the passage of Sabina Lazio, and the creation of the new province of Terni, Umbria. On 24 September 1961, promoted by the intellectual fascist Aldo Capitini was organized the first Peace March from Perugia to Assisi. Since 1973, in the month of July, is the epicenter of Perugia Umbria jazz. Since 1994 takes place in October Eurochocolate an annual event dedicated to the culture of chocolate. Since 2007 in the month of April, the International Festival of Journalism. The kitchen Perugia, like most traditional Umbrian cuisine is based on local agricultural and livestock products and includes a variety of dishes based on game. The climate is mild with an average temperature is about 13 degrees.

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