VOLTERRA AND SURROWNDING

Volterra is one of the oldest towns of Italy, a casket full of treasures, a gem set in the heart of Tuscany - a visit is like a journey through thirty centuries of history.
Volterra as an important Etruscan town, as a florid Roman municipium, as an independent town, shows the harmonious exchanging of the most magnificent ages of the Italic civilization with its buildings, its monuments, its works of art and its pictorial glimpses that perpetuate its glorious past.
You will find signs of all this simply walking through Volterra: the Etruscan Arched Door "Porta all'Arco", the Roman Theatre, the Baptistery and the Cathedral, the famous square "Piazza dei Priori" - the marketplace surrounded by towers and buildings - and finally the rich Etruscan collection of the Museum "Guarnacci", the masterpieces of the "Pinacoteca" and the Museum of Sacred Arts.
The wide view that ranges from the Appennini mountains until the Tuscan Archipelago and the Corsica, the "Balze" that menace the town, the degrading slopes of the hill, complete this splendid setting where nature competed with man's genius to create an unrepeatable work of art that changes and brightens with its precious stone: the alabaster.