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Cortona Travel Guide

Cortona sits implacably on a green mountainside above terraced olive groves, stony yet inviting. It's a steep medieval city where cut-stone staircases take the place of many streets, and views over the wide Chiana Valley stretch south to Umbria's Lake Trasimeno. Cortona, like many Tuscan treasures, proclaims itself a "City of Art," but for such a small town it has truly punched above its artistic weight; it spawned (among others) the great pre-Michelangelo painter Luca Signorelli and the early-17th-century painter/architect Pietro da Cortona. (Witness the very respectable church embellishments and the particularly rich collection of the tiny Museo Diocesano.) Read More

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Hotels

Relais Il Falconiere

Localita San Martino 370
Cortona 52044 Map

Distance: 14.6 mi.
(from destination center)

Hotel Class: 4 class stars

Expert Rated & Recommended

Rosetta

Piazza Italia 19
Perugia 06100 Map

Distance: 22.9 mi.
(from destination center)

Hotel Class: 4 class stars

Expert Rated & Recommended

San Gallo Palace

VIA MASI 9
Perugia 00000 Map

Distance: 23.2 mi.
(from destination center)

Hotel Class: 4 class stars

Expert Rated & Recommended

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Attractions

Duomo

Piazza del Duomo (at the end of Via Casali)
Cortona, Italy

Distance: 0.5 mi. (from destination center)

Description:

The Duomo's High Renaissance barrel-vaulted interior from the 16th century contains many... Read More

Museo dell'Accademia Etrusca

Piazza Signorelli 9
Cortona, Italy

Distance: 0.5 mi. (from destination center)

Description:

Cortona was one of the 12 cities of the Etruscan confederation, and the proliferation of... Read More

Museo Diocesano

Piazza del Duomo 1
Cortona, Italy

Distance: 0.5 mi. (from destination center)

Description:

Across from the Duomo, in the deconsecrated church of the Gesù, is a little museum where... Read More


Airports

Major Airports near Cortona

Distance (mi.)
Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport 94.0 map
Rome Intercontinental Airport Leonardo da Vinci 102.2 map
Venice Marco Polo Airport 155.6 map

Other Smaller Airports near Cortona

Distance (mi.)
Perugia Sant Egidio Airport 29.3 map
Florence Peretola Airport 53.9 map
Rimini Miramare Airport 60.4 map

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