PAGUS CITIES REPORT Document to be filled by PAGUS local partners
City / Region / Country Perugia Umbria Italia Contact person / Email Simona Cortona s.cortona@comune.perugia.it Number of inhabitants / Date 160.000 2006 Number of inhabitants of historic centre/ Date 7.000 2005 Other demographics data that Latitudine: 43° 7 ′ 0 ′′ N local partner consider Longitudine: 12° 23 ′ 0 ′′ E Longitudine: 12° 23 ′ 0 ′′ E
Body / Telephone +39 075 5774496 Approximated surface of the built up zone 449 km² Approximated surface of the historic centre 130 he Body Web address www.comune.perugia.it
Illustrative pictures of the historic centre
Location map of the city and region in Europe / Location map of the city in the region
City map with historic centre graphic outline
Historic centre map
Descriptive data General description of the city (You must pay special attention to heritage values and the historic centre). Own city distinguished declarations: UNESCO world heritage list and so on: Conferring dates) Synthetic list of the most important problems of the historic centre. Perugia is the capital city in the region of Umbria in central Italy, near the Tiber river, and the capital of the province of Perugia. Perugia, the great "Guelf strong-hold" rises up in the region's heart, with its 5 storical quarters closed-in by its Etruscan town walls. These enormous bastions formed by cyclopic square masses, were constructed 22 centuries ago and are still visible for long stretches. Two are the various images of Perugia: the first is that of a quiet chief town province small town, a reassuring town with a stable economical system and a historical and cultural tradition to the shoulder hams which allows her hurrah to show it and solid sentirsi; the second alludes in a Perugia dynamics, enterprising; a town which wants to grow, in some way ready to change and put him in game. Treats oneself of a image containing to his interior two possible declensions: from a Perugia side that looks with confidence to the new infrastructures necessary for growing; other, a more complex Perugia, what looks at to the development of the tourism and the local production, to the research, to the formation, to the culture. Perugia is an important historic and artistic centre, a heritage overtime of artistic and monumental sign, an offer of cultural events known internationally, a university vocation which will celebrate in 2008 the seven a hundred years of history.
Participation in European Projects PAGUS Subproject names that local partner have been participated. Related participant institutions and collaborative bodies. Others Europeans projects where the local partner have been participated. The subproject name is Museo Virtual. The institutions partecipants are: Comune di Perugia, University of Engineering.
Interreg II C Finestra Interreg III B Medocc Restauronet
Programma Urb-Al de la Comision Europea 2003 Securad Ciudadana en la ciudad
Urban Policies Schematic list of the most important policies of the city in conservation topics of the historic centre. One of the last instruments that have equipped the Adminstration of Perugia for the planning participated and shared of the increase of the city is the writing of a Strategic Plan for the development of the area in the next decade. The Plan has characterized seven strategic lines, to each of they specific actions correspond to complete and specific it turns out to obtain to you. The strategic lines and the respective actions to they correspondents are: to 1.To Improve and to integrate accessibility and mobility 2. To increase entrepreneurship, the innovation and the internationalization 3. To improve the quality of the life, the level of emergency and the social solidarity 4.To realize political city innovative and to revitalize the historical centers 5. To reinforce the cultural areas of excellence: historical-artistic assets, great events and University to 6. To increase the ambient row, tourism, culture and sport 7. To raise territorial integration and the offer of services of public interest
Schematic list of the participation actions of the city in transversal topics that European policy is interested: Gender and sustainable policy and so on. Accessibility and alternative mobility: Dicember 2007 start the project Minimetrò ( a surface underground)
Sustainable mobility: PUM - Piano urbano della mobilità
Environment: Agenda 21
Equal II : P.O.ossibile: Città chiama donna
Information Webs list address about urban management and tourist topics. www.comune.perugia.it http://tourism.comune.perugia.it/ Piano Strategico Perugia-Europa http://www.comune.perugia.it/canale.asp?id=2987 Programma Generale di Sviluppo http://www.comune.perugia.it/canale.asp?id=3138 Centro Storico http://www.comune.perugia.it/canale.asp?id=2866