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 Car Hire & Driving in Perugia, ItalyWelcome to Perugia Car Hire, Italy.Umbria region Central Italy Car HireLong dismissed as Tuscany’s ‘gentler sister’, Umbria has recently emerged from the shadow of its more famous western neighbour, as you will witness on a trip to the Umbria region in your hire car. Forming an expanse of gentle pastoral countryside and high mountains wilderness, the picturesque region of Umbria has been dubbed the ‘Green Heart of Italy’. Umbria is also well known for the beauty and profusion of its medieval hill towns which you can also visit in your hire car. Perugia Car HirePerugia’s old centre hinges around the pedestrianized Corso Vannucci, named after the local painter Pietro Vanniccui. At the northern end of Perugia is Piazza IV Novembre which you can visit in your hire car and is dominated by the Fontana Maggiore, a 13th century fountain. To the rear rises the 15th century Duomo Perugia its entrance flanked by a statue of Pope Julius II, as you will be able to see from your hire car. Away from the Corso area of Perugia is the Oratorio di San Bernardino, which you will find on Piazza San Francesco in your hire car, with a colourful façade by Agostino di Duccio. Beyond the old city walls of Perugia on Borgo XX Giugno in your hire car you will find San Pietro, Perugia’s most extravagantly decorated chuch. Piazza Giordano Bruno is home to San Domenico, which you can visit in your hire car and is Umbria’s largest church. It is known for the Gothic tomb of Benedict XI from about 1304. Another place of interest in Perugia which you can visit in your hire car is the Museo Archeologico Nazionale dell’Unbria. Housed in the cloister of San Domenico, this museum exhibits prehistoric, Etruscan and Roman artefacts. The Palazzo del Priori, which you will find in your hire car back in the Corso Vannucci area of Perugia is also worth a visit in your hire car while in Perugia. The monumental walls a ns bristling crenellations of this palace marks it as Unbria’s finest. Finally the Galleria Nazionale dell’Unbria, which you will find on Palazzo dei Priori in your hire car houses Umbria’s greatest collection of paintings, displayed on the third floor of the palace. Most of the works are 13thh century to 18th century paintings by local artists, but the highlights are altarpieces by Piero della Francesca and Fra Angelico. Italy Car HireHome of opera, Ferrari and designers like Giorgio Armani, Prada and Gucci; Italy is a place of diversity and culture, all free to be explored in your hire car. From the snow capped peaks of the Alpes in the north, through to the unique and magical city of Venice in the northeast of Italy, whose streets are full of water, the central Tuscany region of Italy, full of evocative landscapes; peaceful and timeless, and the main wine making region of Italy; Florence, its capital, is a great art centre. Italy’s capital Rome is home of one of the greatest amphitheatres, the Colosseum, which was commissioned in AD 72, you will also find the Vatican City here in your hire car, the world capital of Catholicism and the world’s smallest state, occupying just 43ha (106 acres). The south of Italy is rich in archaeological remains, such as the famous Pompeii. Italy also includes the beautiful islands of Sicily and Sardinia, equally worth a visit in your hire car. See our links to Venice Car Hire, Florence Car Hire, Rome Car Hire, Naples Car Hire, together with Alghero, Cagliari, Olbia for Sardinia Car Hire and Catania and Palermo for Sicily Car Hire, for details of what you may see on a trip to these places in your hire car while exploring Italy.
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