Within a few km are the most beautiful art cities of central Italy: Arezzo, Cortona, Florence, Siena and its hills, Assisi, Perugia, Lake Trasimeno, Rome. Cortona, at 13 km, is a town of 23,041 inhabitants in the province of Arezzo, the main cultural and tourist center of the Val di Chiana in Arezzo after the provincial capital. The surface of the municipal territory is the fourth largest in Tuscany (the second excluding the provincial capitals) and the 29th in Italy. An ancient city-state belonging to the Etruscan dodecapoli, it is located south of the province of Arezzo and south-east of the Tuscany region, on the border with the Umbria region.