PerugiaSights

Other sights in Perugia

  1. Ipogeo dei Volumni

    About 5km southeast of the city is the Ipogeo dei Volumni, a 2nd century–BC Etruscan burial site. An underground chamber contains a series of recesses holding the funerary urns of the Volumnio family. The surrounding grounds are a massive expanse of partially unearthed burial chambers with several buildings housing artefacts that haven’t been stolen over the years. Take a train or APM bus 3 from Piazza Italia to Ponte San Giovanni and walk west from there. By car, take the Bonanzano exit heading south on the E45.

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