Città della Pieve Co-Cathedral

Pietro Vannucci, the painter known as Perugino, was born around 1450 in this hill town, then called Castel della Pieve, and two of his altarpieces still hang in its main church. The Baptism of Christ, finished by about 1510, was painted for the chapel of Saint John the Baptist. Christ and John stand ankle-deep in the water, with the dove of the Holy Spirit above them and an angel on either side. For a time it was given to his workshop, until a restoration in 1962 brought out the fineness of the drawing and confirmed it as his own.

The second picture, the Madonna in glory with Saints Gervasius and Protasius, the church's patrons, now stands in the apse, though it was made for the high altar. The building around them has been rebuilt many times, from a Romanesque church to a Gothic one with a crypt over Etruscan and Roman remains, and much of what stands today dates from the 16th and 17th centuries. It became a cathedral around 1600, and since 1986 it has shared that rank with the cathedral of Perugia.

Among the other works inside are paintings by Antonio Circignani, the late 16th-century painter called Pomarancio, and a wooden crucifix attributed to the sculptor Giambologna.