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The tall
Val of Cecina, constituted by the town
territories of Castelnuovo Val of Cecina,
Montecatini Val of Cecina, Pomarance and
Volterra, it is delimited to west from
the Val of Cornia and from the low Val
of Cecina, to north from the Val of were,
to east from on high Val of hilt and to
south from metalliferous hills. It
possesses a rich patrimony of historical,
artistic, archaeological and landscape
goods nearly to constituting a "unicum"
in Tuscan much to inspire writers, write
poetry and painters that Rose, Stendhal,
Lawrence, Dennis, Corot, D'Annunzio and
Cassola.
In fact, besides millennial testimonies
of Etruscan, Roman, medieval and
Renaissance civilizations disseminated
on the territory and guarded in
prevalence to Volterra, city of art and
center cultural of the whole valley, the
Val of Cecina underlines a rich variety
of landscapes that go from the
metalliferous hills to the wooded areas
as the forests of Berignone-touches and
Monterufoli, from the Mediterranean
stain, to the landscape of the
"volterrane hills" constituted by
badlandses, crags and knolls from the
sweet slope.
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On the
oriental slant of the knoll the cross
rises Montecatini Val of Cecina.
the ancient Monteleone, tied to the
apron strings of a tower, to whose feet
stretches the inhabited area with
characters charasteristic of the
medieval center built about to
representative elements of the can
political and religious that it is
identified in the magisterial building
with an elegant portico and in the
fourteenth-century S. Biagio church. |
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Montegemoli is characterized by the
emergent structure of the castle with
its round tower and with its Renaissance
forms. Pomarance preserves important
footprint of its ancient past as the
Orciolina gate and the gate of hamlet of
the building fourteenth-century wall,
the church of Midsummer day with
paintings of the Roncalli, of the
Cercignani and of the Ademollo, the
magisterial building and the curly
buildings, hovels, Bardini and from
Larderel.
Montecastelli is characterized by a
thick tower to basic square of medieval
epoch and from the Romanesque church of
SS. Philip and James (sec. XIII) to
three dense aisles of pillars with show
up capitals. in the proximities of the
cemetery, himself you find the hole of
the fairies, an Etruscan hypogeum of the
sec. VI b.C.
to S. Dalmazio I am interesting the
rests of medieval tack with two gates
that contains the inhabited area from
the nearly circular form and the church
of Romanesque forms that preserves a
tabernacle in terracotta of the shop of
shines of the madder. in the
neighbourhood the rests of the imposing
Sillana fortress.
Also Montecerboli has the circular
structure of an ancient castle with
medieval suburb. Castelnuovo Val of
Cecina is surrounded by a wooded
landscape and preserves its urban form "to
cluster" where the different phases are
can distinguish of expansion.
Pisan stone structures about to its more
ancient nucleus, the castle, set in the
point more elevated than the place.
Serrazzano, interesting by the
urbanistic point of view, preserve of
the medieval period two gates of the
building wall and traces of the building
plinth to shoe, and the S. church given
that presents inside interesting Gothic
times and the attractive S. Anthony
Romanesque church. A tower to square
plant and the S. Martino church
characterizes the inhabited area of the
Sassa, while to the right, on a rocky
spur rises Querceto, interesting for all
the the constructions that compose the
castle villa and the stupendous parish
of S. Giovanni.
to the historical-artistic testimonies
the Val of Cecina unites the wealth of
its endogenous products.
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To the
historical-artistic testimonies the Val
of Cecina unites the wealth of its
endogenous products
The
alabaster, with whom is realized
products of refined craftsmanship, the
rock salt, extracted in industries of
salt pans of Volterra, and the heat of
boraciferous blow-pipes that comes
exploited in the thermoelectric plants
of Larderello, typical industrial center
with the church planed by Michelucci and
with an interesting museum of the
geothermal energy.
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Also
Ponteginori, built in 1919 from the
Solvay society, constitutes in Val of
Cecina an only example of industrial
village charasteristic of the mining
north-country areas Europe. Finally
Libbiano, Micciano, Lustignano and La
Leccia ilex on knolls attests even in
the urban form the ancient of a castle
origin.
The more in shore Tyrrhenian center is
Monteverdi Marittimo, whose territory is
mantled by a thick wooded coverage (
with the natural reserve of tollgates )
from which emerge the chief town and the
suburb of Canneto, that preserve still
the physiognomy of the medieval
installation, and the ruins of the abbey
of Saint Peter in Palazzuolo, that drew
origin from the monastery founded in 754
from the noble Walfredo. |
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