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Perugia

American  
[pe-roo-jah, puh-roo-juh, -jee-uh] / pɛˈru dʒɑ, pəˈru dʒə, -dʒi ə /

noun

  1. a city in central Umbria, in central Italy.

  2. Lake of. Trasimeno.


Perugia British  
/ pəˈruːdʒə, peˈruːdʒa /

noun

  1. 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)

  2. another name for (Lake) Trasimene

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Once part of a 1341 Maestà that adorned a city gate in Assisi, it now hangs at the end of “Giotto and St. Francis” at the National Gallery of Umbria in Perugia.

From The Wall Street Journal May 11, 2026

He would make only one league appearance for Perugia in Serie C, before leaving in late 2023.

From BBC Jan. 9, 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

Perugia slid the Mona Lisa into an opening in the wall and piled firewood in front of it.

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day

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