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Country house apartment Cortona: there are places that do not need words to describe them. When one purchases a Country house apartment cortona, it is simply the beginning of the dream. We will help you. Help you to make that dream come true, just as you have always imagined.
We are a real estate development company specializing in the restoration of centuries old houses in the Tuscan countryside, with all the character and detail of a permanent country house apartment, a second home, or a structure to receive tourists or your guests.

PAGUS S.r.l. is a company which specialises in finding period country house apartment Cortona with characteristics that can be used either as permanent country house apartments or as vacation homes. At present it operates in Italy in the areas surrounding Cortona, Montepulciano and Castiglion Fiorentino in Tuscany.

The company deals with all the planning and the obtaining of permits for the restoration and refurbishing of the buildings, including those in a state of ruin, by obtaining previously used building materials, thus maintaining the characteristic details of the original buildings, dating from the 17th to the 19th centuries.

Project schemes are planned with private gardens in addition to common areas for access roads, parking spaces, green areas, swimming pools and technical equipment.

A special maintenance service is organized for each country house apartment Cortona to manage swimming pool, gardens, water supply and house-cleaning.

Cortona, which is a splendid small town Etruscan origins, has typical medieval structure. It preserves many artistic treasures and its local traditions match very well with the numerous foreign cultures of the people living there. It is in the middle of an area that spreads out between Firenze and Perugia, Siena and Montepulciano, the Chianti and the Trasimeno lake.

THE ARCHEOLOGICAL PARK OF CORTONA

URBAN CIRCUIT: This itinerary begins with a visit to Palazzo Casali and the Museo dell'Accademia Etrusca and the City of Cortona. Towards the outer city walls one can see the Porta Bifora, or Porta Ghibellina (4th- - 3rd century B.C.) the only monumental gate in the Etruscan circuit of walls stili standing. Nearby, in Via Guelfa, one finds a room with a faulted ceiling, dating from betweeen the 1st and 2nd centuries B.C., probably used as a cistern or storage area. Going back up the hill towards the center of the city, Palazzo Cerulfi¬Diligenti houses an imposing tract of Etruscan wall which acts as a support for a large part of the building.

Many parts of the modern city wslls, which follow the conformations of the ancient wslls, have as their foundations the Etruscan period stones dating to the end ofthe 4th century B.C:

The itinerary concludes at the large Roman cistern in via Bagni di Bacco near the church of Sant'Antonio.

EXTERNAL CIRCUIT:

In the area of Cortona there are three monumental tombs to visit: The Tumulus of Camucia, and the Primo Melone and Secondo Melone of Sodo. These are archaic Etruscan burial mounds of spectacular construction and often gigantic dimensions.

Just below the ancient city walls of Cortona another group of funerary constructions of some note dating to the Hellenist period (2nd - 1st century B.C.) can be visite d, the Tanella di Pitagora and the Tanella Angori. In the area known as Passaggio, a few kilometres from Cortona, is the Tomba di Mezza via, another Etruscan funerary structure dating from the same Hellenistic periodo Archaeological sites dating to the Roman period include: the late emperial period Vii/a of Ossaia, the Roman road of Torreone, the Roman road of Monte Maestrino and the Roman road of Teverina Bassa, ali transitable and signposted.

Among the most famous nearby towns you must definitely visit:
SIENA Piazza del Campo where the Palio takes place, the Duomo, the Battistero of San Giovanni and the Church of San Domenico.
SAN GIMIGNANO known because of its towers and the "vernaccia" wine.
MONTEPULCIANO the Church of San Biagio and its famous wine shops and cellars.
PIENZA the Duomo, Palazzo Piccolomini and the gastronomic products.
AREZZO the Centro Storico, the frescoes by Piero della Francesca, the antiquarian market.
PERUGIA the Duomo, Piazza Quattro Novembre, Jazz festival.
ASSISI the Basilica of San Francesco with the famous frescoes by Giotto.

With your country house apartment Cortona you can spend your leisure time practising any sports, going on a cultural trip, tasting the delicious cuisine or finally wandering about the antiquarian markets.

For those who love sports there are two golf courses near the Trasimeno lake and in Perugia; you can surf on the lake, go horse riding, swim in the various private pools and at winter ski on Monte Amiata.


	Developers of traditional Tuscan homes	c.s. Creti 11 - 52042 CORTONA (AR) - Italy tel. +39 06 37352822 - fax +39 06 37351610 mob. +39 337 721055 - e-mail: info @pagus.net

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