by markus | Sep 14, 2022 | Art and culture, Surroundings
This year there is the 45th Anniversary of Umbria Jazz! As always, the event is held in Perugia, from 13 until 22.7.2018. Launched in 1973, Umbria Jazz is today one of the most important jazz events in the world which has hosted the greatest modern jazz musicians. The...
by markus | Aug 15, 2022 | Art and culture, Festivity, Surroundings
Ferragosto is a public holiday celebrated on 15 August in Italy, in the Ticino area in Switzerland and San Marino. It coincides with the major Catholic feast of the Assumption of Mary. The day of mid-August is traditionally dedicated to outdoor trips with handsome...
by markus | Jun 15, 2022 | Senza categoria
Città della Domenica (“City of Sunday” in English) is the first amusement park in Italy, inaugurated in 1963. It was designed and achieved at the end of the mid-century by Mario Spagnoli, a smart businessman native of Perugia, son of Luisa Spagnoli (the woman who...
by markus | Jan 31, 0202 | Art and culture, Surroundings
This Majestic fortress in the center of Perugia was commissioned in 1540, by Pope Paul III Farnese at the end of the “salt war”. The salt war took place in Perugia (1540). It was an insurrection against the Papal state at the time of Pope Paul III. At the end of the...
