 The immediate neighborhood was populated by Etruscans, whose presence was dramatically signaled by the discovery in 1812 of bronze panels from a parade chariot, at Castel San Mariano di Corciano.Under Roman rule it became a district of Roman agricultural villas.A mythical founder Coragino, companion of Ulysses, is a medieval invention recounted in the fourteenth-century "Conto di Corciano e di Perugia".