CERQUETO ON LINE

 

It is abandoned above a picturesque hill between the valleys of the River Tiber and the River Nestore.

Of ancient origin it has given the native, to not quote any that some:

to the Blessed Giacomo Cinti, priest agostinian dead in 1367; to Giovanni Tommaso Giglioli (1567-l634) Pope Paul V's friend , doctor in Theology, Philosophy, Jurisprudence; Mons.Giulio Cicioni (1844-1923) eminent scientist founder of the Museum of Natural History near the Seminar of Perugia. For the S. Sebastiano, masterpiece of the Perugino (1478) and the three frescos , of Tiberio of Assisi also holds a glorious supremacy in the field of the art. Characteristic for the old artisan shops of which every house was gifted, today it is alive and vital in the world of culture, of the music, of the folklore and of the sport.

The delight of the air and delicious hospitality, force to return in Cerqueto often and gladly.

 

 

 

 

 

Kilometric Distances:

Perugia - km. 18

Rome - km. 155

Florence - km. 175

Assisi - km. 35

Terni - km. 65

 

 

 

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