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Hometown of Brother John of Pian di Carpine, so called because of the large hornbeams betulli that covered the plain at the foot of Magione, which in 1225 was sent by Innocent IV in the East, to spread the Order of Minor. He returned after twenty years, handing over to posterity his "Historia-Mongolorum"; book in which for the first time describes the civilization mongolica and was driving to many missionaries and merchants, including Marco Polo.
The city (299 meters) developed around all'ospizio founded by the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem, transformed into a castle in 1300 and expanded in 1420 by the Bologna Fieravante Fieravanti. At the town of Magione belong picturesque villages of San Feliciano, Agello, Monte del Lago (birthplace of Guido Pompili, which saved the nell'ottocento Trasimeno from a neutral position and already operating draft drainage) and Monte Colognola, in whose parish church is kept an interesting "Annunciation" on majolica tiles of 1584 and a fresco of novecentesco Gerardo Dottori, of which you can admire other works in the hall of Magione and advise in the parish.
Attractions
Castle of the Knights of Malta
The Castle of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta was built around the years'60-'70 century. XII as a fortified hospital. The original nucleus was the bell tower and the ancient church dedicated to St. John the Baptist, within which are two frescoes of the sixteenth century. school by Pinturicchio. The building has undergone over the centuries alterations, until it assumed the present. Splendido is the courtyard with arcades superimposed on three sides.
Fisheries Museum of San Feliciano
Since 1974 the Museum of Fisheries aims to document the life of Trasimeno through what for centuries was the main activity of its people. The Museum of Fisheries proposes to the visitor not only the various systems of fishing, but also the objects of everyday life of fishermen, and the terms dialect of that world, now almost disappeared.
 
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