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Viale Giacomo Matteotti

Viale Giacomo Matteotti (and outside the walls also by car). Outside Porta Monterone, to the right, going up along via Esterna delle Mura. The Street begins in Piazza Libertà, goes past the Public Gardens connected via two flights of steps to the Chico Mendes park below and then becomes a tree-lined avenue "La Passeggiata" (the promenade) which leads up to the hill road viale dei Cappuccini and to the chiesa and monstery by the same name.

Chico Mendes park

At the cross-roads with Fuller's dome, via Martiri della Resistenza begins. This encircles the city leading down to the lowest and newest part of it. Another opening to Mendes park opens out onto it on the right. Directly opposite there is the road which leads up to the church of San Paolo inter vineas. A bit further along, there is the round-about with Porta San Matteo on the right and the Portico on the left. Going along the flat section flanked by via Interna delle Mura (the city wall mentioned above of the same age as the Porta), one can take the road to the right at the intersection and thus enter Piazza della Vittoria next to piazza Garibaldi. On the right side there is the small entrance to Ponte Sanguinario. By going over Ponte Garibaldi and following via Flaminia Vecchia if you are on foot or via Nursina if you have a car, you arrive directly in front of Villa Redenta which is a fine seventeenth-eighteenth-century complex.

Villa Redenta

The villa has had several owners including the papacy. It know belongs to the Province of Perugia and is open to the public as a seat for exhibitions and theatrical productions. It is currently being restored. It is possible to enter the Park on the inside from the side street called via delle Tre Madonne. This complex has a huge value from the point of view of setting and environment. There is a lovely courtyard and lawn with a quaint little open theatre at the bottom.

Villa Redenta (courtyard)

In the centre there is a fountain with an obelisk and to one side a small temple. There is also a stone pond with gushing water. Right round rich and varied vegetaton gives way to special areas concealing fake ruins and shadowy corners with romantic seats for lovers.

Villa Redenta (small temple)

At this stage, one has a choice of either plunging back into the normality of the present-day amidst the traffic and the lights of corso Trento e Trieste with the crowd in piazza Garibaldi, or returning to the past on foot up along corso Garibaldi or by car back up the external road mentioned earlier or along the National Cross-Road from via dell'Anfiteatro.

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