Perugia
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Ancient name: Perusia. a city in central Italy, in Umbria: centre of the Umbrian school of painting (15th century); university (1308); Etruscan and Roman remains. Pop: 149 125 (2001)
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another name for (Lake) Trasimene
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Kercher’s sister, Stephanie Kercher, told the BBC this week that Knox’s show trivializes the murder of her sister in Perugia, where the two women were students almost two decades ago.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
Knox, from Seattle, and Kercher, from Surrey, were both exchange students sharing a house in the university town of Perugia.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
Glazier Vincenzo Perugia hid the Renaissance masterpiece in his Paris home for two years before trying to sell the portrait to a Florentine dealer.
From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2025
Back in the fall of 2007, Knox was a 20-year-old student from Seattle, studying in Perugia and rooming with a young British woman named Meredith Kercher.
From Salon ● Apr. 14, 2025
But she’d looked strikingly like the Mona Lisa—this was the clever twist in the tale—and so Perugia, deep in desperate mourning, had stolen the painting to bring her back to life.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
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