Etruscans — Places to Visit

Perugia

approx 45 mins, 50km

Home to the National Museum of Umbria, one of the great painting museums of Italy, and is a wonderful town for walking, shopping and eating in. It also has a good archaeological museum with (among other things) fine Etruscan artifacts. Etruscan tombs at the Ipogeo dei Volumni are on the southern edge of the city, just off the motorway/raccordo (SS75) towards Tuscany. Notable international Jazz Festival during summer and winter, and (thanks to Perugina) a very large chocolate festival.

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Cortona

approx 50 mins, 40km

Cortona lies just to the west of the Niccone valley and is an elegant walled city with several fine museums and numerous Etruscan tombs in the surrounding countryside.

It is a famous centre for antiques, with some shops also open on Sundays in the summer. Besides hosting an antique furniture fair at the end of August, Cortona has regular monthly antique fairs on the third Sunday of every month (and the Saturday before it).

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