THE BED & BREAKFAST SPAGNOLI is located around the corner from the Corso Vannucci, the main street in the historic center, and near the most important monuments. It's located within steps of the main Piazza Italia, so it's easy to arrive by car, train, bus, or on foot. The family has an international profile and speaks fluent Italian, French, Spanish and English. Each room shares a bathroom with one other room. There is an elevator.

PERUGIA UNIVERSITY TOWN. Perugia has a particular vocation as a university town. The Università degli Studi, which was founded in the 13th cenury, has been welcoming students from all over Europe since the middle ages. There are the folowing Universitis: University for Foreigners of Perugia, Università degli Studi di Perugia, Perugia Music Conservatory, Pietro Vanucci Fine Arts Academy.

PERUGIA CITTA MUSEO: integrated entry cards makes it easy and convenient to see all of Perugia's most important museums and monuments. Services Center: Nobile Collegio della Mercanzia, Palazzo Baldeschi al Corso, Palazzo della Penna, Rocca Paolina Museum Services Center. Free number: 800 697616 or email www.fondazionenecrpg.it

PERUGIA: is one of the most attractive towns in the area of northern Umbria and southern Tuscany both in terms of its ambience and its architecture and should on no account be missed if you are visiting central Italy. Perhaps nowhere else in Italy are the material remains of the Etruscans so clearly evident as in Perugia. The churches and fountain of the main piazza of Perugia are well-known masterpieces, but there are numerous minor churches of great interest. City of art, history, monumets and culture, and of a great etruscan and Roman heritage. Tha suggestive atmosphere of the subterranean city. Last of all the aroma of chocolate and the extraordinary jazz music

PIAZZA IV NOVEMBRE: forms the centre of Perugia which speads outwards along the steep alleys leading to the walls of the original Etruscan settlement and the ancient gates of Porta Marzia, Porta Sole, Porta Cornea, Porta Trasimena, Porta della Mandorla and the Arco Etrusco. The piazza is one of the most beautiful squares in Italy, surrounded as it is by fine buildings.

The side of the palace facing onto Corso Vannucci has an undulating development and is characterised by mullioned windows with three and four lights, and a magnificent round portal. The interior of the Palazzo dei Priori comprises the National Gallery of Umbria – the most important collection of art in Umbria for the Mediaeval and the Modern periods – and, on the ground floor level, the Sala del Collegio del Cambio and the Sala del Collegio della Mercanzia. The Guild of Merchants established its seat in this palace in 1390 and decorated their meeting room with wooden panels, a very unusual decoration, rather rare in Italy. The Guild of Moneychangers occupied this wing of the palace during the half of the 15 C. in this room can be admired the most important work by Perugino in Perugia, one of the most significant examples of Renaissance painting in Italy: a series of frescoes representing the heroes and deities of antiquity and some personified virtues.

FONTANA MAGGIORE: is located at the centre of Piazza IV Novembre. This beautiful mediaeval fountain was erected in the second half of the 12 C at the termination of the aqueduct that carried water to the town from Monte Pacciano. The architect was Fra Bevignate da Perugia and the sculptural decorations were created by Nicola and Giovanni Pisano. The fountain is composed of two superimposed polygonal basins, faced with marble reliefs representing biblical and mythological individuals, saints, animals and personifications of the months, the sciences, the virtues and places. The fountain is one of the finest examples of Gothic art in Italy and was the symbol of the city at the peak of its power and influence.

PALAZZO DEI PRIORI: one of the most interesting examples of Ghotic civic building in Italy (1293-1297), its upper floors are the home of the National Gallery of Umbria, and on the ground floor are the halls of two of the town's most important guilds: the Collegio del Cambio (Exchange Hall) and the Collegio della Mercanzia (Merchant's Hall). A broad exterior staircase leads to the Sala dei Notari (Hall of the Notaries), formerly the seat of meetings of the people and the Notaries' Guild. The Palazzo dei Priori, which was the residence of the principal political authorities of the city during the Middle Ages. Construction was begun in 1298 and the work was completed in 1353. The palace is built of travertine and red and white stone from Bettona, and on the side facing the fountain it has a large stairway and a portal which give access to the beautiful Sala dei Notari, a rectangular room with a vault supported by huge Romanesque arches.

NATIONAL GALLERY OF UMBRIA: Corso Vanucci, 19 - Tel/Fax: 00 39 075 572 1009 (ticket office) 00 39 075 574 1413 (museum) - segretaria@galleriaumbria.it - www.gallerianazinaleumbria.it - guided and educational tours (information and reservations) free number 800 961993. It is a prestigious colletion in a 4.000 sq.m. exhibition space thet winds through 40 rooms. It has one of the richest collections of art in Italy, with hundreds of works and masterpieces that document seven centuries of Italian culture and history, incluided works by Duccio di Boninsegna, Gentile da Fabriano, Beato Angelico, Benozzo Gozzoli, Piero della Francesca, Pintoricchio, Perugino, Orazio Gentileschi and Pietro da Cortona. The gallery has many sculpture, ceramics, textiles and jewelry.