Your journey, as to discover our region, starts off ideally from its chief town, Perugia, a city of Etruscan origins and an extraordinary blend of styles which followed one another during the centuries, including the Classical, Medieval and Renaissance ages. Among the most important monuments are the Arco Etrusco, the Pisano brother’s Fontana Maggiore, the Palazzo dei Priori, the Collegio del Cambio e della Mercanzia, the Rocca Paolina, San Lorenzo’s Cathedral and many more. At the Galleria Nazionale you will have the chance to admire the masterpieces of the most significant Umbrian artists: Pinturicchio, Pietro Vannucci, known as “il Perugino”, and also Piero della Francesca and Beato Angelico’s works. When you think about Perugia unavoidably one thinks about the Università degli Studi di Perugia, founded seven centuries ago and the Università per Stranieri, established in 1925 and Perugia’s buttonhole flower.