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The itinerary of civilization of "Tuff"
Along the Valle del Fiora
  
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was born the civilization of tuff, the main local geological which marked the landscape in an original and unique deep gorges in the rock and country built entirely in black tuff, clinging to the sides of rugged rocks, dominated by castles, towers and steeples, important Etruscan and Roman settlements, as Sovana which is famous for possessing the most beautiful artistic tombs of Etruria. |
 
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Pitigliano very close together with Sorano and Sovana, completes the triangle that was fortified by Aldobrandeschi although undoubtedly exceeds the neighbouring villages for the spectacular panoramic position: Pitigliano rises on a spur of tuff, surrounded by ravines and gullies, crossed the mighty Roman arches the aqueduct ending with a beautiful fountain in its main square of the country. Pitigliano stands in the centre of a territory rich in historical memory: from centre departing fact the streets quarries, excavated by the Etruscans in the rock and still be visited today, and many Etruscan necropolis. | |
 
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Sorano small Etruscan survived the Roman conquest, and then entered to be part of the family possessions Aldobrandeschi that the fortified making it virtually impregnable. A witness in its history remain the mighty fortress and the ways to reach the necropolis excavated by the Etruscans directly into bare rock: two of them are still percorribili and lead one from the necropolis of San Rocco to the waters of the river lens, the other to a system of artificial caves dug into the tufa. Immersed in a particularly evocative, Sorano still intact the face and medieval charm. The climb to Masso Leopoldino, a spur of rock that housed the Etruscan Acropolis and then fortified by Lorraine, gives a superb landscape of gorges on tuff around the country. |
  
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Sovana ancient capital of high maremma and proud enemy of Siena, retains many of the constructions carried out in the Middle Ages, as the square, Palazzo Pretorio and the Loggia del Capitano. E 'splendid Rocca Aldobrandesca, although the charm of Sovana is especially breaths strolling through the streets paved with stone and surrounded by silence. City surrounded by magnificent Etruscan necropolis, Sovana was the first Roman municipality and then episcopal see: here was born on monaco Ildebrando, ascended to the papal with the name of Gregory VIII.
off all the charm of a civilization that disappearance of death and travel oltremondano made its pivotal . The charm of medieval heart intact, the wealth of archaeological finds and tranquillity typical of the countryside, make Sovana one of the most pleasant holiday in the hinterland. | |
