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The beautiful bridges of Tuscany. Tuscany is not only villages, churches and fantastic views, the whole region is full of enchanted corners, places where time seems to stand still. These are some of the most beautiful and picturesque bridges that are absolutely worth seeing.
One of the most spectacular and photographed is...
Volterra has always been present in Tuscan history. Founded by the Etruscans in a commanding position on a craggy hill overlooking the Cecina and Era Valleys. The ancient “Velathri” was one of the twelve cities of the Etruscan confederation, with a circle of cyclopic walls of which significant portions still stand. It dominated...
Carrara, the city of marble, is surrounded by olive-trees against the background of rugged Apuan Alps, it produces each year millions of tons of marble: statuary, bardiglio, paonazzo, fior di pesco, apuano, breccia violetta or medicea.
The city of a two-thousand year-old industry is chronicled for the first time in 963; for...
The Maremma region extends along the Tyrrhenian coast from the mouth of the River Cecina beyond Tarquinia. The name can derive, according to scholar, either from the Latin “maritime”, or maybe from the Castilian “marismas” which means "swamp". The coast is mostly flat land, interrupted by the Piombino Promontory, Punta Ala, the Mountains...
San Gimignano, town of the medieval Towers. Soaring on a hilltop overlooking Valdelsa, in a territory most certainly inhabited in Etruscan times, the town is an outstanding testimonial to medieval Tuscan urban planning. It was already an important market centre in the 10C, at the crossroads of important routes. In the 13C it...
The tiny village of the medieval Borgo of Gargonza is situated a few kilometres from Monte San Savino, at the boundary between the Val d’Ambra and the Val d’Orcia, along State Road 73.
The landscape context is one of the most suggestive in the western Valdichiana: the castle is built on a...
The Valdichiana Valley is a green, well-cultivated dale about 100 km long, located between the plains of Arezzo and Orvieto, surrounded by mountains and hill clad with silvery olive groves, and including the hydrographic basin of the Canale Maestro della Chiana.
Human settlements in the Valdichiana have really ancient origins. The various...
The Abbey of Farneta, dedicated to Santa Maria, rises on the small hill of Farneta, close to the beautiful town of Cortona, and excluded from the phenomenon of becoming a marsh thanks to the 320 metres of altitude that characterize it.
The foundation of the original monastery is reportedly to be attributed...
The name of the Castle of Montecchio Vesponi derives from a corruption of “Castrum Montis Guisponi”, a name acquired from the last name of the Aretine family that originally owned the locality. This small fortress, built on a “monticulus” at an altitude of 364 metres a.s.l., has been documented ever since the 11th...
The Lakes of Chiusi and Montepulciano are situated right in the middle of the Valdichiana, both within the province of Siena, they are connected by the Passo della Querce channel and are a residual area of the vast swamp that covered the whole valley of the Chiana river. The whole area is a...
