This medieval town on high ground is a real surprise to the traveler.
The landscape from here towards Lake Trasimeno is very impressive, while the layout of the town retains all the grace of the medieval past.
Extraordinary artists such as Perugino, who brought the finest innovations of the Florentine Renaissance to this small village, also worked in Panicale.
Perugino, in fact, painted one of his finest works for theOratory of St. Sebastian: a depiction of the martyrdom of the saint.