It Is The Unmistakable Historical Landscape Reproduced in The Paintings By Several 15th Century Artists.

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Umbria Art and History Trasimeno Park
It is the largest parks in Umbria and the most interesting from the standpoint of historical nature, in addition to being the fourth largest lake in Italy. Alluvial, in recent years has undergone a major decline in water due to poor rains, which affect the already low depth, 6 feet. On the border with Tuscany, the lake offers a pleasant landscape frame made of rolling hills, olive groves, vineyards and endless fields coltivati.Gode a rich variety of birds such as coots, grebes, ducks and the fish, as perch, the carp and eels. Opportunities for bathing along the perimeter of water sports, to horseback riding, walking or mountain biking in the woods and ridges of the hills. It is historically known for being in 217 BC, the scene of one of the heaviest defeats against the Romans, led by Consul Gaius Flaminius by the Carthaginian army, led by Hannibal. Also gave birth to the most celebrated Umbrian painter and teacher of the great Raphael, Pietro Vannucci, known as Perugino and the Italian art magazines founder, Gerardo Dottori. The three main islands and islands of Lake Trasimeno, the most important from historical point of view to be the only inhabited. Today there are about twenty people. LACE MUSEUM OF IRELAND collects the finest pieces of ancient art introduced in 1904 by Marchesa Elena Guglielmi and now kept alive by very few ladies who live on the island. CHURCH OF SAINT MICHAEL (XIII cent.) Situated on the hill, has an enviable position to the view that ammira.Custodisce an unsuspected fresco cycle of the Tuscan-Umbrian school, dating from the fifteenth century. And a wooden crucifix of the second half of the fifteenth century by Bartolomeo Caporali. HOUSE OF THE PEOPLE OF THE CAPTAIN fourteenth-century home of the mayor of the island is now a documentation center that illustrates the historical events, urban change with particular attention to fishing, the main economic activity. There are preserved in works of the fifteenth century, a panel painted by Sano di Pietro of Siena and a crucifix, and two processional banners of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Franciscan sites in 1211 St. Francis chose the quiet of this small island to spend Lent, a time of meditation and prayer. Are still visible places where he prayed and slept over the "rock of San Francesco, which traditionally were the footprints of the elbows and knees while praying. CASTIGLIONE DEL LAGO is the largest of eight municipalities of Lake Trasimeno. In ancient times, must have been the fourth island of Lake Medieval Castle: built in mid-thirteenth century by Frederick II, was ruled in the second half of the sixteenth century by the Della Corgna ducal family, who left a building and completely painted visited. PANICALE: a tiny village perched on a hill, has a unique spiral plant, based on three concentric squares. The main square is home to a tank and a few meters the fifteenth-eighteenth-century municipal theater, still half funzionante.La square houses the collegiate church of Saint Michael the Archangel, in which there is an Annunciation attributed to the famous Masolino from Panicale, and Nativity of John the Baptist Caporali.La third place, situated on the highest point of the village, a panoramic terrace and the medieval palace of the Podesta SAN SEBASTIAN CHURCH: in 1505 Perugino fresco on the wall "The Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian" in excellent condition after restoration of Citta della Pieve 1985: Known to the sixteenth century as "Castel della Pieve, which emphasized the fortified structure, changes in 1600 in Citta della Pieve, as it becomes a bishopric. Here around 1450 the most famous painter was born in Umbria, PietroVannucci, known as Perugino. ROCCA Trecentesco: built by the city of Perugia who had control for protégé from enemy attacks Palazzo della Corgna It was the second home of the Dukes Of Corgna between the second half of the sixteenth century and half century later. Rooms such as Castiglione del Lago, are frescoed with mythological subjects, which enhance the moral virtues and capabilities of the military family. TOUR OF PERUGINO: Oratorio di Santa Maria dei Bianchi, Adoration of the Magi (1504). Is considered one of the masterpieces of the great master. CATHEDRAL, Baptism of Christ (1510) and Madonna in Glory and Saints (1514) Church of Santa Maria dei Servi, Deposition (1517).
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