In the historical centre a medieval castle is perfectly preserved; in 2003 Corciano has been certified as one of the most beautiful burghs in Italy, only 12 km far from Perugia and 10 km far from the Trasimeno Lake as a guardian to the passage of the valley that links the Trasimeno area to the Tuscan Tevere Valley. Corciano has got everything thanks to whick the whole Umbria Region is known and loved all over the world: the nature, the art, the history, the traditions and gastronomy.

While walking through the town walls In Corciano, you can enjoy a wide landscape that goes by the Monte Amiata to Monte Peglia, to Todi, by the Trasimeno Hills to the mounts Tezio and Acuto; the dominant Malbe mountaintop is over everithing above.

Historical data

According to an araldic legend preserved in the Vatican Code 4834 Corciano was founded by Coragino, the friend of Ulysses; according to some Perusian historians the town comes from Ciano Razzeano, the son of Giano – thus the popular tradition states that "Corciano" means "Cuore di Giano" ("Heart of Giano"); according to other sources the name is the result of the corruption of a roman person – Curtius or Coricius or Corisius – by which some lands were indicated as the ones placed "in loco et vocabolo Corciano" ("in the site and name of Corciano"). Certainly the sunny and quiet town was an active centre already in the Etruscan-Roman eve and that is witnessed by the presence of the Strozzacapponi Necropolis (III – I century before Christ), the two lions in travertine placed in Piazza dei Caduti and several others archeological remainings preserved by the Commune Palace.

Nowadays as it is still surrounded by powerful walls, it lays over many medieval castles and guardian towers all placed in the shape of an amphitheatre around Malbe Mountain (652 metres above sea level) that nowadays constitute the seven divisions of the Commune jurisdiction: Capocavallo, Castelvieto, Chiugiana, Mantignana, Migiana, San Mariano, Solomeo.

The Castle of Pieve del Vescovo

The majestic castle with the 4 big angle towers lays at 1 km far from Corciano in an area where vineyards are grown upon the top that dominates the Caina river plain. It seems that Frederick 1st lived there while Spoleto was going to be destroyed.