Welcome to Perugia, Italy
In conjunction with Studies
Abroad at The University of North Carolina-Asheville, The Mars Hill
College Art Department offers a learning community program based in this
splendid Umbrian city. Perugia is both an ancient Etruscan site and a
classic Umbrian hill town and has been praised the best standing model
of the historically important self-contained Italian City State. Nearby
are the towns of Assisi and Spoleto, and students can easily reach Rome
and Florence via train. In Perugia students visit the Piazza IV Novembre,
containing the Gothic Cathedral (1490), The Museo Archeologico Nazionale
and the Oratory of San Bernardino, built in 1461 by Agostino di Duccio.
Students also visit Palazzo dei Prioi, which houses the Nazionale dell'Umbria,
museum for Italy's most important collection of Umbrian art. Students
have the opportunity to view the fifteenth-century Collegio del Cambio,
known for its extensive fresco work by Perugino.
Download the 2006 Study Abroad Brochure [front
of brochure] [back of brochure]
Contact: Professor Scott
Lowrey
828-689-1455
slowrey@mhc.edu