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Citta Della Pieve

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CITTA DELLA PIEVE, a town and episcopal see of Um bria, Italy, in the province of Perugia, finely situated 1,666ft.

above the sea, 3m. N.E. of its station on the railway between Chiusi and Orvieto. Pop. (town) ; 9,347 (commune). It was the birthplace of the painter Pietro Vannucci (Perugino), and possesses several of his works, but none of the first rank. It has a Romanesque cathedral, a i 3th century castle, and some pic turesque buildings.

See F. Canuti, Nella Patric di Perugino (1926).