Perugia PG

The bridge on Via Cesare Battisti and the medieval buildings

Panoramic view of the university area from Via Cesare Battisti

The steps on the Via Appia as seen from the bridge on Via Cesare Battisti

An archway, the remains of a Gothic portico in Via Maestà delle Volte

The fountain created in 1927 by Pietro Angelini in Via Maestà delle Volte

A madonnaro’s drawing in Piazza Giacomo Matteotti

Corso Vannucci and the Palazzo dei Priori at dusk

The Fontana Maggiore and the side façade of San Lorenzo Cathedral in Piazza IV Novembre

The Fontana Maggiore, illuminated at night in Piazza IV Novembre

Corso Vannucci and the tower of Palazzo dei Priori at dusk

The Fontana Maggiore and the Palazzo dei Priori at dusk in Piazza IV Novembre

Braccio’s Loggia (on the right) and the Fontana Maggiore in Piazza IV Novembre

A close-up of the illuminated Maggiore Fountain in Piazza IV Novembre, with Corso Vannucci in the background

The decorations on the Fontana Maggiore in Piazza IV Novembre

Starting from the left, the statues of St Peter, the Roman Church and ‘Roma caput mundi’, situated at the edges of the upper basin of the Fontana Maggiore

The bronze basin of the Fontana Maggiore, the work of Rosso Padellaio of Perugia, adorned with bronze nymphs from which the water flows

The balcony of the Palazzo dei Priori in Piazza IV Novembre

Corso Vannucci and the grand decorated portal of the Palazzo dei Priori

The Gothic portal dating from 1326 on the Palazzo dei Priori in Corso Vannucci

The tables at a café on Corso Vannucci (the city’s most fashionable spot)

The tables at a restaurant on Via Giuseppe Mazzini

Piazza della Repubblica at dusk and the deconsecrated church of Sant’Isidoro

The long avenue of Corso Vannucci at dusk

Piazza della Repubblica and the Teatro del Pavone at dusk

The flower-filled gardens of Piazza Italia, with the equestrian monument to Vittorio Emanuele II in the background

The monument to Perugino and the Provincial Government building in Via Bagliona

The monument to Vannucci, known as ‘il Perugino’, in Via Bagliona

The bell tower of the Basilica of San Pietro at dusk, seen from the Carducci Gardens

The bell tower of the Basilica of San Domenico, designed by the Lombard architect Gasperino di Antonio, as seen from the Carducci Gardens

The Basilica of Santa Giuliana as seen from the Carducci Gardens

Via Indipendenza at sunset

The portico of the Provincial Government building as seen from Via Indipendenza

The main entrance to Palazzo Cesaroni, the Prefecture’s headquarters in Piazza Italia

The Prefecture Building or Palazzo Cesaroni

The façade of the parish church of Sant’Andrea in Porta Susanna, in Via Sposa

The painting in the lunette above the entrance to the parish church of St Andrew, in Via Sposa

The Parish Church of St Andrew, consisting of a single nave

The Oratory of San Bernardino in Piazza San Francesco, with its polychrome façade, designed by Agostino di Duccio

The Gothic interior of the Oratory of San Bernardino, with three naves and a pointed arch vault

The 4th-century early Christian sarcophagus in which Blessed Egidio is buried, in the Oratory of San Bernardino

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