Attractions
Main attractions
Cathedral (Duomo) S. Lorenzo
Collegio del Cambio (Frescoes by Pietro Perugino)
Collegio della Mercanzia (late fourteenth century wooden interior)
Palazzo dei Priori (town hall, encompasing the Collegio del Cambio, Collegio della Mercanzia, and Galleria Nazionale)
Church of San Pietro (late 16th century)
Basilica of San Domenico (begun in 1394)
Church of S. Angelo (6th century)
Church of S. Bernardino (with faade by Agostino di Duccio)
Fontana Maggiore, a medieval fountain designed by Fra Bevignate and sculpted by Nicol and Giovanni Pisano
Galleria Nazionale, the National Gallery of Perugia (works by Duccio, Piero della Francesca, Fra Angelico, Perugino)
Ipogeo dei Volumni (Hypogeum of the Volumnus family), an Etruscan chamber tomb
National Museum of Umbrian Archaeology
Palazzo del Capitano del Popolo
Porta Augusta, a Roman gate with Etruscan elements
the Rocca Paolina, a Renaissance fortress
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