Within Cortona, visitors naturally gravitate to the
beautiful and interesting Piazza della Repubblica with its 13th Century town hall and clock tower,
and of course its pleasant piazza ambience, especially on a sunny day.
Another major
sight of Cortona is the
Duomo, the 15 C Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta. Cortona is richly endowed with
other magnificent churches in
a wide range of architectural styles, all of them worth a brief visit at
the very least.
Cortona was a major Etruscan city, one of the Etruscan Dodecapoli,
the league of twelve cities, and traces of their structures can
be seen throughout Cortona. Cortona also has an excellent Etruscan
Museum, the Museo dell'Accademia Etrusca.
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