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History and 'Things to see'in Perugia:

• Cathedral 
St Laurent's Cathedral; due the long time of construction (first built in the 11th c.), is featured from several styles

• Church of Sant' Angelo 
the oldest church in the city, built at the end of the 5th

• Collegio del Cambio 
seat for currency exchange practised by bankers in middleage times (Palazzo dei Priori.)

• Corso Vannucci 
main street of Perugia, with shops and elegant cafes, the drawing-room of the city

• Etruscan Arch 
built in the 3rd c. bc, known also as the Arco di Augusto

• Etruscan well 
defence walls for the city (3rd and 4th c. b.c.)

• Fontana Maggiore 
built at the end of the 13th c, in the middle of Piazza IV Novembre, fine example of Gothic fountain

• National Archaeological Museum of Umbria 
stores prehistoric and photohistoric materials (collections of bronze objects dating back to the 16th–14th c. bc) related to the Apennine cultures

• National Gallery of Umbria 
Umbrian painting from the Middle Ages to the nowdays (works by Perugino, Beato Angelico,Piero della Francesca, Duccio da Boninsegna)

• Palazzo dei Priori 
Gothic style Palazzo (built from 1293 to 1443), the most representative buildings of the city’s architecture

• Palazzo del Capitano del Popolo 
medieval and Renaissance, built at the end of the 15th c.

• Piazza IV Novembre 
main square of the city

• Rocca Paolina 
Fine example of perfect harmony beetwen past and modern time: fortress built by Pope Paul III in 1540, inside it lately was built an escalator linking two sides of the city

• San Domenico 
built between 1304 and 1458 for the Order of Dominicans.

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