She and her sister went to Europe to visit relatives before catching a train to Perugia.
Tourism in Perugia apparently hasn't benefited from the notoriety, according to Italy's La Stampa newspaper.
Sollecito, 23 at the time, was Knox's boyfriend, studying computer science at another university in Perugia.
She wanted to immerse herself in a smaller town, and she looked around and Perugia had a program.
During a 14-hour police interrogation, Knox had accused a local Perugia pub owner of carrying out the killing.
The Kercher family are due to hold a press conference at a hotel in Perugia at 1000 GMT.
However, any hopes of an upset were undone two minutes later when Perugia substitute Margiotta found the net.
In 1202, around the age of twenty-one, he himself went to war, in a battle between Assisi and Perugia.
The killing of the 21-year-old student in Perugia in November 2007 and the subsequent trials made headlines around the world.
He was adopted by a family living in Perugia, although they are said to have since broken all contact with him.
Perugia's Madonna delle Grazie in the Duomo is a larger-than-life, clearly pregnant young woman, painted in 1515 by one of Perugia's Renaissance greats.
In her statement, Knox took the Perugia prosecutors to task, saying they "must be made to answer" for the discrepancies in the case.
Knox was 20 and Kercher was 21 when the two shared a home as they studied at the university for foreign students in Perugia, Italy.
Meredith's father John, a freelance journalist, wrote in Britain's Daily Mirror newspaper about the moment he learned the British student killed in Perugia was his daughter.
Her father John, a freelance journalist, wrote in Britain's Daily Mirror newspaper about the moment he learned the British student killed in Perugia was his daughter.
Nigerian teenager Christian Obodo, Perugia's most impressive player, then forced Speroni to leap and tip away his fierce 22-yard drive as the home side finished strongly.
Knox was 20 and Kercher was 21 years old, studying at Perugia's university for foreign students, when Kercher's semi-naked body was found in the house they shared.
Kercher, whose throat had been slashed, had shared an apartment with Knox and others in Perugia, an Italian university town where the two women were exchange students.
The trial of Seattle student Amanda Knox, accused of killing her British roommate Meredith Kercher in November 2007 when the two shared a house in Perugia, Italy, is also controversial.
Dundee came closer in the 69th minute when Gavin Rae played a one-two with Fabian Caballero inside Perugia's area and made Kalac dive to his left to hold the shot.
Rudy Guede, an Ivory Coast native who was raised by a local family in Perugia, was the first to be found guilty of the crime in a fast-track trial in 2008.
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The court can decide to confirm the acquittal, making it final, or throw out the Perugia appellate court ruling entirely or partially, remanding the case to a new appeals court trial.
Lumumba was detained, but was released after two weeks when his alibi was corroborated: he had spent the night of the murder talking to a customer in his pub in Perugia, police say.
Then it was on to Perugia and Assisi.
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Rome (CNN) -- Raffaele Sollecito was a 23-year-old computer science student when his girlfriend's roommate, Meredith Kercher, was found dead in the house she shared with Amanda Knox in Perugia, Italy, more than five years ago.
His own story -- an immigrants' son, adopted and then disowned by one of the richest families in Perugia, suffering from fugue states and sleep-walking -- makes him one of the more interesting characters in the case.
Cardiff boss Dave Jones was delighted with the call-up for his striker, who has previously played for Coventry, Charlton and Wolves, and also had a short spell in Italy with Perugia, and has already bagged 15 goals this season.
Amanda Knox, the 24-year-old American former college student convicted, along with her Italian boyfriend, of killing her roommate in Perugia, Italy, in an alleged drug-fueled orgy gone wrong, could be cleared of the crime on appeal as early as Monday.
At one time after the first conviction, Sollecito's father sought the help of a private lawyer not connected to the case, who spoke to Perugia prosecutor Giuliano Mignini about striking a plea deal to cut Sollecito's sentence in exchange for evidence against Knox.
Sollecito condemns his treatment by Perugia police who, he says, would not give him food or access to a lawyer during the questioning, even though it was clear to him that they were treating him as a suspect and not just a person informed of the facts of the case.
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