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The name of this ancient village comes from the castle Vignoni, already known in the XI century, whose traces dominate the height over the village, and characterized by the thermal waters, used since the Roman period, as test...
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Chiusi is considered by Latin sources one of the most ancient Etruscan cities. The historian Servio says that it was founded by the hero Cluso, son of the Lydian prince Tirreno, who, according to Erodoto, guided the migration...
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South of Arezzo, almost at the border with Umbria, rises Cortona, on the steep slopes of a hill which leans on the Alta Sant’ Egidio. Cortona was maybe founded by the Umbrians and became very powerful under the Etruscan...
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The town area and the hill on which today rises the communal administrative centre , were very populated, like the rest of the whole Valdichiana, already during the “villanovian”and Etruscan time. The area fell un...
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Collocated on a hill 564 metres above sea-level, Montalcino keeps untouched its charm of abcient medieval village. Its territory, which belongs to the Val d’Orcia park, is covered with the cultivations of grapevines, ol...
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The village of Montepulciano has a past which depends party to the fact that it was at the crossroads of two streets of regional importance(from Chiusi to Arezzo and from the Val d’Orcia to the Val di Chiana and the Tra...
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The history of Pienza, unlike that of the near Commune, it is not characterized by long periods of medieval events or wars. The city in fact was a small village until 1462, known with the name of Corsignano. The event which c...
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San Qurico, Etruscan origins is that, even in the absence of systematic excavations are found by the witness in the areas of Vignoni and Ripa d'Orcia, urns and other items belonging to the funeral industry, today colnservate ...
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The nucleus of Beloeil Sant'Antimo dates back to the cult of the relics of Saint Arezzo, whose death in 352, the place of his martyrdom was built a small oratory. In the same place stood a Roman villa: the findings demonstrat...
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Siena was founded as a Roman colony in the time of Emperor Augustus and was named Julia Saena. The news scarce reliable foundation prior to suggest the existence of a community which Etruscan settled on the Roman military co...
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