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reviews_and_ramblings) wrote2009-08-21 07:53 pm
reviews_and_ramblings) wrote2009-08-21 07:53 pm
Around the World: Perugia
This is the first day of my little vacation time in Italy. I spent most of the day driving, to reach Perugia, a town famous abroad to have quite an important Foreign Languages college. It's a mix of medieval and reinassance town, with narrow streets and very tall palaces. The main plaza is wonderful. The time was perfect, the light stunning, late afternoon. Pity it was so full of tourist that sometime it was impossible to take the right picture.
by Elisa, Perugia, Italy, 2009
Sometime to find beauty you have to look up...
Perugia is the capital city of the region of Umbria in central Italy, near the Tiber River, and the capital of the province of Perugia. The city symbol is the griffin, which can be seen in the form of plaques and statues on buildings around the city.
Perugia is a notable artistic center of Italy. The famous painter Pietro Vannucci, nicknamed Perugino, was a native of Città della Pieve near Perugia. He decorated the local Sala del Cambio with a beautiful series of frescoes; eight of his pictures can also be admired in the National Gallery of Umbria. Perugino was the teacher of Raphael, the great Renaissance artist who produced five paintings in Perugia (today no longer in the city) and one fresco. Another famous painter, Pinturicchio, lived in Perugia. Galeazzo Alessi is the most famous architect from Perugia.
The Palazzo dei Priori is among the most renowned civic structures built by Italian communes of Central Italy during the High Middle Ages to house their city governments. It is not the sole Palazzo dei Priori: the Priori of other communes were housed in a Palazzo dei Priori such as may be seen at Volterra. In Perugia the magistratura dei Priori, "magistrature of the first citizens", was established in 1303: the palazzo had been called the Palazzo Nuovo del Popolo ("New Palace of the People") to that point. During intractable civic quarrels, a podestà might be established, housed in a separate structure, the Palazzo del Podestà, of which only the Loggia added by Braccio da Montone flanking the Cathedral of San Lorenzo e San Ercolano remains. When the palazzo of this rival to the power of the Priori burned in 1534, significantly, it was not replaced, but fragments from it were incorporated into the archbishop's palace, also fronting the main piazza. (From Wikipedia)
by Elisa, Perugia, Italy, 2009
Sometime to find beauty you have to look up...
Perugia is the capital city of the region of Umbria in central Italy, near the Tiber River, and the capital of the province of Perugia. The city symbol is the griffin, which can be seen in the form of plaques and statues on buildings around the city.
Perugia is a notable artistic center of Italy. The famous painter Pietro Vannucci, nicknamed Perugino, was a native of Città della Pieve near Perugia. He decorated the local Sala del Cambio with a beautiful series of frescoes; eight of his pictures can also be admired in the National Gallery of Umbria. Perugino was the teacher of Raphael, the great Renaissance artist who produced five paintings in Perugia (today no longer in the city) and one fresco. Another famous painter, Pinturicchio, lived in Perugia. Galeazzo Alessi is the most famous architect from Perugia.
The Palazzo dei Priori is among the most renowned civic structures built by Italian communes of Central Italy during the High Middle Ages to house their city governments. It is not the sole Palazzo dei Priori: the Priori of other communes were housed in a Palazzo dei Priori such as may be seen at Volterra. In Perugia the magistratura dei Priori, "magistrature of the first citizens", was established in 1303: the palazzo had been called the Palazzo Nuovo del Popolo ("New Palace of the People") to that point. During intractable civic quarrels, a podestà might be established, housed in a separate structure, the Palazzo del Podestà, of which only the Loggia added by Braccio da Montone flanking the Cathedral of San Lorenzo e San Ercolano remains. When the palazzo of this rival to the power of the Priori burned in 1534, significantly, it was not replaced, but fragments from it were incorporated into the archbishop's palace, also fronting the main piazza. (From Wikipedia)