Holidays in Cortona

An introduction to Cortona

Your holidays in Cortona will continue a tradition started by the Etruscans who took one look over the fertile plains and rolling hills of the surrounding Tuscan countryside and immediately decided that here was an unrivalled place. They weren't taking their holidays in Cortona, though, they made it their home by laying the foundations for the defensive walls that encircled the town and contributed so richly to its power and wealth. Benefits you'll enjoy on your holidays in Cortona.

A variety of distinguished piazzas can be reached by strolling through the complicated knot of narrow streets and alleyways lined with overhanging, timbered medieval houses. Your Cortona holidays will give you glimpses of the Etruscan and, surprisingly, the Egyptian civilisations in the town's Museo dell'Accademia Etrusca - one of Tuscany's best. Your last minute holidays in Cortona will also immerse you in the region's own history. There's a very pretty 13th century campanile at Palazzo Comunale, great to visit in the evening, not to mention the melon tombs of the Tanella di Pitagora (so called because of the shape of the grassy mound that has grown over these ancient Etruscan burial places) on the plain just outside the town.

What a place. So much has happened to it in the past. So much of it still awaits your visit in the future that you simply have to grab those late deals to Cortona.

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