"Villa Passerini", called also "il
Palazzone" built by
G. B. Caporali about 1515,
summer center of the Normal University
of Pisa.
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Founded by the Etruscans, it raises in
a ring made of cyclopean walls; its steep streets, buildings, palaces,
convents, numerous churches, disposed as a scenary, remind
us of the Middle Ages and of the Renaissance.
Along the centuries, Cortona has
been changing its owners very frequently but none of them has ever thought
of destroying the town to rebuild it: everything has remained as it was.
That's the main point of its history. The palaces, dating from the XV,
XVI and XVII centuries are all still there. According to which architectural
point of view you have, the town shows aspects from the fourteenth,
fifteenth and seventeenth centuries.
It's not a case if the Normale University
of Pisa has its summer courses in one of the ancient palaces in town.
Because of its natural beauty, its monuments
and traditions Cortona is one of the most interesting small towns in the
center of Italy.
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