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VOLTERRA

December 17, 2015 /in /by

Volterra, surrounded by century walls, is a city of Etruscan origins and medieval shape, with an artistic handicraft unique in the world: alabaster, including numerous masterpieces are exposed in the Alabaster Ecomuseum. Testimonies of the Etruscan and Roman period are found in the Etruscan Museum, in the acropolis and in the necropolis of the archaeological […]

GUARDISTALLO

October 20, 2015 /in /by

The territory was inhabited between 3000 and 2000 BC as demonstrated by the tombs discovered in the early twentieth century; the name Guardistallo appears the first time in 1144 and is derived from the Germanic words “warda” and “stall” probably meaning “place of guard”. The village, built around the castle of the Gherardesca, in 1406 […]