Hotels in Perugia

Tuscany may get most of the press, but the hilltop city of Perugia in Umbria has long been a magnet for visitors. In fact, it’s one of the top destinations for students learning Italian, as there’s a famous university in the city. Perugia is also home to a world-famous chocolate festival that takes over the city each October. It also spent years in the news for less pleasant reasons, as the setting for the Amanda Knox trials, but anyone who’s been to Perugia will tell you that the city is about much more than that story - even today.
Much of Perugia is on top of one of those quintessential Umbrian hills, but there are buildings all down the sides of the hill as well. Note where the hotels you’re considering are, in case you’ll be stuck doing lots of uphill and downhill walking to get where you want to go.

The old center is on top of the hill, and escalators and a little automated MiniMetrò carry you up from the lower town. One set of escalators runs right through the Rocca Paolina, the buried ruins of a 16th-century papal fortress, which is one of the odder walks in Italy. At the top, Corso Vannucci fills up for the evening passeggiata, and the Galleria Nazionale dell'Umbria has a big collection of paintings by Perugino, the local boy who taught Raphael.

The Perugina factory, where Baci chocolates are made, is on the edge of town, and every July the Umbria Jazz festival takes over the squares. Trains from Florence take about two hours.

Here is a map of hotels in Perugia, so you can see exactly where each one sits before you book.