VOLTERRA

Volterra, an ancient city in province of Pisa, her history goes back in the most remote times. The hill where it rises, it has seen the first men during the iron age.

It was one of the city-states of the ancient Tuscany, Etruria.

The hystorical centre is of an etrurian origin, of this era we have the beauty to see nowadays again the door Diana, the most part of the walls, the Acropoli, the Apogei (underground construction), the Porta all'Arco, some buildings that they go back to the Middle-Age like the Palazzo dei Priori, the Cattedrale and the fortezza Medicea.

Volterra's city is rich of wonders all to discover , where history and culture mix together. The Museo Etrusco is surely to visit, the Guarnacci, where inside of there is an archeological find considered one of the most important in the world, the sculpture called "L'ombra della Sera."

 To give her the name was D'Annunzio, who saw in the elongated shape the shadows effect to the sunset. The etrurian origins go up to more of 2300 years ago. The discover is wrapped in the mistery. One of the most famous hypothesis goes up to 1789, by Henry Polse, an archaelogist who would find the statuette in the hands of a farmer, who used it to draw the fire of the chimney.

One another beauty that it will let without words are the rests of the Roman Theatre, datingto the first century. One of the places of excellence of Volterra is Palazzo dei Priori, his works began in the far 1208, to the beginning was il Palazzo del Comune, exploited from the older like residence.

Those famous 24 old men who in 1238 became the 18 priors of the people and at the end in 1289 called the 12 defenders of the people.

The Dom, built on the foundations of a church of IX century and the baptistery of San Giovanni, where we will find some works, between of them L'Ascensione of Nicolò Gergignani.

Volterra is famous too for the processing of alabaster, it goes up to more than 7 millions years ago and it requests a lot of experience.

The tradition is handed down of generation in generation

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