Art and culture
Umbria is located in the centre of Italy, in the cradle of Medieval and Renaissance culture. The most important cities are within few kilometers: Florence, Siena, Assisi, Gubbio, Arezzo, Todi, Montepulciano, Perugia.
Arezzo
Arezzo was founded in pre-Etruscan in an area inhabited since prehistoric times, as evidenced by the discovery of stone tools and the so-called "Man Elm", dating back to the Paleolithic, which occurred near the hamlet dell'Olmo during excavation work a short tunnel of the railway line Rome-Florence in 1863. The area at the confluence of Valdarno, Valdichiana and Casentino, infact, is a natural st...
