Volterra

Volterra is a common of the Province of Pisa in the area Toscane in Italy.

Geography

History

Volterra is old a lucumonie (powerful city) Etruscan like Véies and then medieval, which is still visible in its architectural structure, perched on a hill, surrounded by ramparts and dominated by a fortress (become a prison).

Economy

Culture

Monuments

  • the Arco Etrusco , which closed the Etruscan wall (6th 3rd front century J. - C.)
  • the Piazza del Priori and its tower crenelated the torre of Podestà
  • the episcopal palate, old attic municipal
  • the Palazzo del Priori and its crenelated tower the torre del Porcinello
  • the Palazzo Pretorio
  • the Dome, the Cattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta and its baptistry of Giroldo di Jacopo da Como (1283) and its baptismal font of Andrea Sansovino (1502)
  • the district medieval of the Quadrivio del Buomparenti
  • the fortress the Rocca Vecchia and the Rocca Nuova
  • the archaeological park and vestiges of the acropolis étrusco-Roman and the Roman theater
  • the Via Matteotti , medieval street and house-turns

Museums

Personalities

  • Persius Flaccus (34-62 ap J. - C.), poet satyric
  • Holy Flax, pope successor of Pierre saint, 67 to 76 ap J. - C.
  • Daniele da Volterra born Daniele Ricciarelli (Volterra, 1509 - Rome, April 4th, 1566), sculptor and painter mannerist

Commemorative event

Festivals, fairs

Administration

Hamlets

  • Hamlets ( frazioni ): Saltworks, Villamagna, Mazzolla, Montemiccioli;
  • agglomerati : Pignano, Prato d' Era, San Cipriano, Sensano, Ulignano, Ponsano, Vicarello, Roncolla, It Cipresso, Montebradoni

Communes bordering

Casole d' Elsa, Castelnuovo di Val di Cecina, Adhesive di Val of Elsa, Gambassi Term, Lajatico, Montaione, Montecatini Valley Di Cecina, Peccioli, Pomarance, San Gimignano

Twinnings

Photograph gallery

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