{"id":3963,"date":"2013-11-18T15:23:21","date_gmt":"2013-11-18T14:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.guidaturisticainumbria.com\/visite-guidate\/journey-through-umbria-underground-the-perugia-sotterranea\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T11:58:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T09:58:25","slug":"journey-through-umbria-underground-the-perugia-sotterranea","status":"publish","type":"tour","link":"https:\/\/www.guidaturisticainumbria.com\/en\/guided-tours\/journey-through-umbria-underground-the-perugia-sotterranea\/","title":{"rendered":"Journey through Umbria Underground: the Perugia Sotterranea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The choice of a guided tour of the &#8220;undergrounds&#8221; of <strong>Perugia<\/strong> does not arise exclusively from the particular fascination that this kind of itinerary exerts, but above all from the particular nature and characteristics peculiar to the city of Perugia.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This city, in fact, has experienced a truly impressive continuity of habitation, so much so that it can be traversed not only, as is always the case, &#8220;horizontally,&#8221; but also and especially &#8220;vertically,&#8221; with an exciting journey through history.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some of its most important treasures, therefore, ended up hidden under the city, still inhabited today, whose elegant forms were largely structured between the 14th and 16th centuries.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The area of the <strong>Rocca Paolina<\/strong>, classified among the &#8220;Castles of Italy,&#8221; is in this sense one of the most fascinating examples, because it allows us to retrace the entire arc of Perugia&#8217;s history: from the Etruscan period, represented by the <strong>Porta Marzia<\/strong>, through the Middle Ages and the Renaissance with the <strong>Baglioni quarter<\/strong> and the <strong>Papal Fortress<\/strong>, to the triumph of the Risorgimento with the <strong>Piazza Italia<\/strong> that overlapped the pre-existing structures.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The centerpiece of our visit is then the route through the basement of the <strong>Cathedral of San Lorenzo.<\/strong> Quite recent excavations, in fact, have identified at this very site the truly impressive remains of the ancient acropolis: the basement of a gigantic temple and, above all, an impressive substructure and water drainage created in Etruscan times. <\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another important stop on our underground journey is the basement of the <strong>Ges\u00f9 Church<\/strong>, where there are three Baroque Oratories arranged in towers and completely frescoed.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To finish, it is possible to access the <strong>Etruscan Well<\/strong> and, with at least a week&#8217;s notice, the <strong>Postierla dell&#8217;Acquedotto<\/strong>. The latter, originally one of the secondary gates in the Etruscan walls, was later reused in the grand design for the medieval aqueduct that fed the Fontana Maggiore. <\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For the implementation of this particular itinerary, contact us through the website or call us directly.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":1859,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"categoria-tour":[163],"class_list":["post-3963","tour","type-tour","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","categoria-tour-guided-tours-in-perugia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guidaturisticainumbria.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tour\/3963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guidaturisticainumbria.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tour"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guidaturisticainumbria.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tour"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guidaturisticainumbria.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guidaturisticainumbria.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"categoria-tour","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guidaturisticainumbria.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categoria-tour?post=3963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}