THE ETRUSCAN CORTONA
The Museum of Etruscan Academy and of the town of Cortona is considered as one of the most important and newest archaeological museums in Italy and it is one of the fundamental stages to know Cortona. ?The museum gathers the historical museum of Etruscan Academy and the Museum of the Etruscan and Roman town in one single route. ?The seat is in Palazzo Casali, one of the most ancient buildings and richest in history in the town, where some of the most etraordinary masterpieces of the Etruscan civilization are collected and shown off in over 2000 square meters. There are even Etruscan sites spread over the land, perfectly preserved and of inestimable value. There are sacrifice altars sole in their genre of Etruscan civilization and tomb sites that are worth of a visit. The sites are spread in the Cortonese area at both sides of Regional Way "Umbro Casentinese" between Arezzo and Perugia provinces. Exactly they lay near Sodo and La Fratta villages and around the modern centre of Camucia and the medieval Cortona. I siti sono distribuiti nell'area cortonese ai lati della SR Umbro Casentinese in prossimità della località Sodo, in direzione La Fratta e intorno al centro moderno di Camucia e della più medievale Cortona.

ANTIQUITIES
The antiquarian show in Cortona is the most ancient in Italy and is the second only after the Biennale of Firenze.?Its extraordinary longevity places it among the most precious antiquarian dates in Europe.?For the far 1963, since the end of the month of august and the beginning of september Cortona has been living unceasingly merged in antiquities by suggesting itself always as a reference point for the several art collecting lovers.

GASTRONOMY
The Cortona gastronomic tradition plounges its roots in food habits of the peasants, whose foundations were made by the cereals (essentially aimed to production of bread), vegetables (cabbage, chickory, chard, spinach), tubers (above all potatoes), onion and garlic, beans and tomatoes. ?The hens were grown for the production of eggs while the chickens and pigeons were essentially reserved for sale. ?The only meat that could appear more often on the peasant canteen was the pork's, that often was grown by every family on their own. ?In rare occasions the housewives could save the home made pasta. A modest wine could go together with the meals and even olive oil was used with great parsimony by consuming it with bread. The food & wine, the antiquities and the pitoresque and Tuscan look that Cortona exports all around the world thanks even to mouth to mouth passage of words among foreign students (above all American) who use to study and live there every year are a pride for Cortona itself as well as the book written by the American lady Frances Mayes "Under the Tuscan Sun" that became even a movie produced by Walt Disney. Every year Cortona welcomes even VIPs from Italy and abroad and offers concerts and shows by the "Tuscan Sun Festival" inviting actors even from Hollywood.