Last minute Besides the Perugino, discovering the beauties of Città della Pieve

Besides the Perugino, discovering the beauties of Città della Pieve

Climbing over the bulky Renaissance figure that ends up to totally capture the attention of the visitor, it is possible to realise that in Città della Pieve there is something else. Much more else. Palazzo della Corgna, for instance, built around 1555 perhaps by the architect Galeazzo Alessi for Ascanio, at that time governor of the city. In the main room, the Sala del Governatore it's possible to enter for admiring a beautiful fresco of the Pomarancio, the "Concert". In the upper floor there is a work of Salvio Savini, "The Banquet of the gods."

Otherwise the imposing Rocca, strongly wanted from the city of Perugia and built in 1326 to arrest the frequent revolts of the people of Città della Pieve, is provided of every sort of tool of defence and control, to protection of the garrisons allowing them to govern safely the city. The Rocca is edged from five towers and endowed with a drawbridge. The construction is merit of the architects from Siena, besides authors of the façade of the Cattedrale of Orvieto, Ambrogio and Lorenzo Maitani.

Near the Cattedrale of San Gervasio and San Protasio, erect in the XII century, the Romanesque Civic Tower raises as splendid example of the Lombard Romanesque. In the inside the walls are fresco by the works of the Pomarancio, of Salvio Savini and Domenico Alfani. Besides two tables of the Perugino, "The Baptism of Christ" and her "Madonna in Glory and Saints". But considering that now we have already betrayed the promise sort, that to go "over" the Perugino and not to mention him, we can freely remember the other his works in Città della Pieve: the "Adoration of the Magi", in the Oratory of Saint the Whites' Maria", his "Deposition from the Cross" guarded in the Church of Santa Maria dei Servi, and finally "Sant'Antonio Abate among the Saints Paul Eremita and Marcello" in the Church of San Pietro.