Citta di Aria is a real urban track, set on the streets of Assisi, Italy, that appears in Gran Turismo 4 Prologue, Gran Turismo 4, Tourist Trophy and Gran Turismo PSP.
Events in Gran Turismo[]
GT4[]
- License Test iB-15
- License Test S-2
Special Conditions[]
Easy[]
- Umbria Rally; 2 Laps - Race 1
- Umbria Rally (reverse); 2 Laps - Race 2
Normal[]
- Umbria Rally; 3 Laps - Race 1
- Umbria Rally (reverse); 3 Laps - Race 2
Hard[]
- Umbria Rally; 5 Laps - Race 1
- Umbria Rally (reverse); 5 Laps - Race 2
Tips & Tricks[]
Since the course is narrow and twisty, make sure you have a car with close gearing, lots of grip and excellent brakes, so upgrading the transmission, tires and brakes are necessary when you're about to do the harder rallies. The best overtaking method is to brake later than your opponent and then correct any signs of understeer or oversteer so you can't lose your lead. Once done, put the pedal to the metal to gain some lead. Failure in doing so will result in a 5-second speed limiter penalty, with the opponent being able to overtake you while recovering from your penalty, though this can be prevented by blocking the opponent during the penalty recovery so as to maintain your lead.
Trivia[]
- In Gran Turismo 4 Prologue, the track is simply called Italian Street Course, presumably because they were working on a final track name before the release of the full game.
- This one of the three courses from "City Circuit" list to have Special Conditions races, the other being George V Paris and Costa di Amalfi.
- There is a text in Italian on the start/finish line that is in the Comic Sans MS font, which reads as "DIO LO BENEDICE !! - Fare il suo guidare il piu sicuro e divertirsi" which translated means: "GOD BLESSES HIM !! - Makes his driving the most safe and [let's him] have fun".
- There are banners spread across the track that have the words "Noi tutti apprezza essendo stato DATO, BENZINA e VELOCITA.", which is Italian for "We all appreciate being GIVEN, PETROL and SPEED."
- Citta di Aria was ranked #3 on WatchMojo.com's Top 10 Hardest Race Tracks in Video Games on August 31, 2016.
- In Tourist Trophy, some flags in the track still feature Gran Turismo logos in it, unlike most instance of GT logos in fictional tracks which are replaced with TT logos.
- In the Japanese version, this track is called "イタリア市街地コース", which translates to Italian City Course.