Perugia is a city of Etruscan origin with a large and very well preserved medieval historic centre, half an hour from Assisi, near Gubbio, Todi, Spello, Orvieto, Bevagna, characteristic medieval towns with churches and ancient buildings. It is also possible to go to Florence (2 hours by train) and Rome (about 2 and a half hours by train). What you can see and visit:
• the city of Perugia and the typical Umbrian-Tuscan hilly landscape where nature and human work have merged since ancient times.
My visiting tips with starting point from the house and relative distances:
• 20 minutes by bus to the medieval center of Perugia, with the 13th century Palazzo dei Priori, the Collegio del Cambio with 16th century frescoes by Perugino and the Collegio della Mercanzia, the Duomo. The Etruscan Walls and the Medieval Walls
• 20 minute drive to Lake Trasimeno and its landscape which often forms the backdrop in the paintings of Perugiano and Raphael, his pupil
• 30 minute drive to Assisi with the Romanesque/Gothic Basilica of San Francesco and the cycle of frescoes by Giotto and the most important painters of the 1200s/1300s
• 1 hour drive from Gubbio with the 13th century Town Hall and various medieval churches
• 1 hour drive from Orvieto with its 13th century Gothic cathedral where we find sculptures by L. Maitani and 15th century frescoes by L. Signorelli
• 1 hour drive from Siena, in Tuscany, with Piazza del Campo (where the famous Palio di Siena takes place), the 13th century Palazzo Comunale with frescoes by Simone Martini and Pietro and Ambrogio Lorenzetti from the 14th century
• 30 minute drive from Cortona, a town in Tuscany
• 2 and a half hours drive from the splendid Val d'Orcia (typical Tuscan landscape)
• 2 and a half hours from Florence (by train)