Category: 5. History, Art and Culture

Forte delle Saline is a fortified structure built by the Sienese in the fifteenth century (the project of 1469) as amended and expanded by the Spanish in 1630. The fort was used to control...

 The foundation of the monastery, entrusted to the Benedictine order, dates back to 754.The  promoter was the noble Lombard Wilfrido (later San Walfredo), founder of the Pisan Della Gherardesca family. For the building was...

The castle was constrcuted between the Xth and XIth century when the Gherardesca decided to fully exploit the mineral resources of the area. From this period date back the first traces of fortifications: the residence of the...

The visit to the Archaeological Museum allows us to retrace, step by step, the history of settlement in the territory of Massa Marittima from the lower Palaeolithic to the Etruscan times. The ground floor...

This beautiful medieval town, whose origins date back to the year 1000,is  nestled on the slopes of the hills overlooking the sea and the coast of the Etruscans, in the Green Valley crossed by Cornia,...

 It stretches between the slopes of the promontory of Piombino and the Gulf of Baratti, where is situated the Etruscan and Roman city of Populonia, known since antiquity for its intense metallurgical activity linked...

The site on which was built the fortified settlement of Ghiaccioforte, late fourth century BC, was used as a rural sanctuary in the Archaic period.   Its location, on the right bank of the...

Remodeled over the years the Fortress is an embattled building that rises over an impressive base shoe. It is supposed that its construction should be attributed to the Aldobrandeschi around the twelfth century,but is...

The remains of the town of Doganella, identified at first by George Dennis (in 1842et), were recognized in the seventies of the last century as the remains of the city of Kalousion, cited by...

The remains of the church, which had been built around 1000 by Benedictine and completed towards the end of the twelfth century, is characterised by an apse, by the eastern walls of the transept...