Attractions and Places To See around Corciano - Top 20

In the heart of the historic center, the Sala dei Notari is a prestigious historic space located within the Palazzo dei Priori in Piazza IV Novembre. Originally the people's hall in the 13th century, it became the seat of the Arte dei Notai in 1582. It is characterized by Romanesque vaults, frescoes by the Maestro del Farneto and Matteo Tassi, and hosts events, conferences, and concerts.

beautiful and lively square, with valuable historic buildings.

As soon as you cross the entrance threshold, you will immediately be captivated by the beauty that the architecture of the room exudes, perhaps thanks to the numerous round arches, exactly eight in total, or because it is entirely decorated with paintings. Unfortunately, very few remains of the original frescoes, dating back to 1200 or 1300, remain, but the precious and elegant craftsmanship, probably attributable to the so-called Maestro del Farneto, is still clearly visible. In many places the ancient frescoes were integrated by Matteo Tassi in 1885, in others the artist took over the pictorial decoration completely. The walls around the room mainly depict stories and legends, with the impression of coats of arms of the various municipal offices, including the Mayor, the People's Captain and even the coat of arms of Braccio di Fortebraccio.

ARCHITECTURAL STRATIFICATIONS Visiting this area of the Rocca, where Via Bagliona meets the shorter Via alla Piazza Gran-de, the complex and fascinating interplay between the remains of the medieval quarter and the structures of the papal fortress can be seen more clearly. The limestone and travertine walls of the ground floor of the medieval buildings, the pointed arches of the entrances to houses and shops and the base of Gentile Ba-glioni's tower blend with the brick vaults that cover the streets and the great foundation columns of the fortress. The old buildings were gutted and the underground chambers of the Rocca Paolina made. The destruction of a large part of the city and the construction of the Rocca in its place was a tearing wound for Perugia, which thus lost the quarter with its most elegant houses and the church of Santa Maria dei Servi, which housed many tombs of noble families and remarkable works of art. The keystone of its entrance is still visible. One of the frescoes by Benedetto Bonfigli (second half of the 15th century) in the chapel of the Palazzo dei Priori (now part of the National Gallery of Umbria) represents precisely this area of the medieval city and remains the most important evidence of how it was before the construction of the fortress.

ROCCA PAOLINA This underground structure, known as Rocca Paolina ("Pauline Fortress"), is the result of the building on buildings that took place in different eras. In the Middle Ages (12th-16th centuries) in this district stood the tower houses of some aristocratic Perugian families. In the 15th century the most important of these buildings belonged to the Baglioni family, the most powerful in Renaissance Perugia. In 1540, after the Salt War, which broke out following the rise in the price of salt and the refusal of Perugia to accept the rule of the Pope, Perugia lost its independence and was annexed to the Papal States. Pope Paul II had a fortress built to definitively subjugate the city and commissioned the architect Antonio da Sangallo the Younger to build it in this area, raising it above the medieval buildings. The fortress was called "Rocca Paolina" because Paul Ill ordered its construction. To speed up the works, which were completed in 1543, the fortress did not completely eliminate the existing buildings, but instead integrated them, preserving many parts (walls, corners, streets, arches), creating the effect of a practically unique underground city. The ancient road network, and in particular the long Via Bagliona that runs through the entire fortress, is still clearly visible today; in the Middle Ages these streets were of course open to the sky, and above the buildings rose tall towers, the instruments and symbols of power and prestige. Only one of the many towers that existed in the medieval city remains intact today in another area of the historic center, the Torre degli Sciri (or Torre degli Scalzi), but more or less considerable fragments can still be identified of about thirty of the forty towers remembered by tradition.

The cathedral is a manifesto, turned to stone, of the largely negative attitude of the local population towards the (business-damaging) integration of the city into the Papal States.

From the Partigiani car park, the big surprise! Escalators take you back a thousand years. You enter a medieval landscape with buildings and narrow streets that are as intact as they were centuries ago.

The Salei dei Notari is located in the Palazzo dei Priori, which is one of the most beautiful buildings in Perugia. It is still in use today, it houses the town hall and the National Gallery on the third floor. The palace is in Gothic style. It is located between Corso Vannucci and Piazza IV Novembre. The majestic portal is dominated by the symbols of the city, the griffin and the lion.