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We have described only the points of interest located outside the town area.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n

The first part of the route coincides with the ancient “Via del sale” (\u201csalt road\u201d), which connected Volterra to Florence and the Siena area.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n

The ring route starts and ends in the Volterra city centre and is designed to allow exploration of an authentic “open-air museum” and take you to a journey through time and intertwining cultures: Etruscan, Roman, Medieval, Renaissance, all part of the unique Volterra landscape.<\/p>\n\n

Already in the Middle Ages, several “Salaiole” (salt roads) branched off from the “moje” (salt-water pools) in the Volterra area and headed towards the most important towns in the Tuscan hinterland: Gambassi, Castelfiorentino, San Gimignano and Colle Val D’Elsa, and then connected with the main routes of the time, including the Via Francigena, which directly linked Siena and Florence.<\/p>\n\n

From there you can descend towards the Era valley along one of the ancient salt roads, also known as the Via Volterrana. Threading along this road the splendour of Volterra’s 3000 years of history will be immediately evident starting with the Roman amphitheatre (1st century AD), a sensational discovery in 2015, containing three tiers of seats and a structure measuring approximately 82 x 64 metres. After Porta Diana and the Etruscan hypogeum, you can follow the beautiful paved medieval road, embellished by the Fonte all’Agnello, down into the valley of the mills at Prato d’Era, cross the Era stream and reach Pian dei Gelsi.<\/p>\n\n

A dirt road climbs up along the clay hills and offers breathtaking views towards the ridge of Monte Cornocchio (631 m), passing near the Riserva Naturale di Monte Nero, a nature and wildlife treasure trove with small waterfalls. Your journey will then touch the beautiful villas of Ulignamo and Scopicci; the cereal fields will the give way first to olive groves and then to woods of holm and turkey oak, leaving the unmistakable and austere profile of Volterra in the background. <\/p>\n\n

From the S.P. del Cornocchio road, after about 3.5 km you will reach Pignano, formerly an ancient rural castle which then became first a villa and then a farm. After a few more kilometres engulfed in a landscape where nature and history blend admirably, you will reach Villa Palagione at the foot of the evocative and legendary Monte Voltraio and its castle. <\/p>\n\n

The steep ascent to Volterra will not only allow you to be amazed by an agricultural landscape of unparalleled beauty, but also to read a different, more recent and dramatic history, that of the Volterra Psychiatric Hospital, one of the largest and most modern in Italy, closed in 1978.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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archaeological excavations performed since the early decades of the 18th century, the Marmini necropolis (a name derived from the numerous Etruscan cinerary urns with which the nearby Villa was built) mainly contained burials from the Hellenistic period (late 4th - early 1st centuries BC). 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A wall of the fountain still bears a marble slab engraved with the coat of arms of Volterra. <\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->","post_title":"Fonte all'Agnello","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"fonte-all-agnello","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-02-12 19:16:16","post_modified_gmt":"2022-02-12 19:16:16","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/valdicecinaoutdoor.it\/poi\/fonte-allagnello-2\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"poi","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7626,"post_author":"3","post_date":"2021-05-03 13:05:11","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-03 13:05:11","post_content":"<!-- wp:paragraph {\"translatedWithWPMLTM\":\"1\"} -->\n<p> Located at the foot of the northern slope of the hill of Volterra, the small village of Prato d'Era is characterised by the large quantity of water that has always allowed the existence of several water mills. The mills were equipped with a horizontal water wheel, called 'ritrecine', and a system of millraces and water basins that were used as a water supply and were arranged along the stream feeding them one after the other. <\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->","post_title":"Valley of the mills","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"valley-of-the-mills","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2021-05-04 14:00:27","post_modified_gmt":"2021-05-04 14:00:27","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/valdicecinaoutdoor.it\/poi\/valley-of-the-mills\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"poi","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7622,"post_author":"3","post_date":"2021-05-03 13:04:02","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-03 13:04:02","post_content":"<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p> From this point, you can access the<a href=\"https:\/\/volterratur.it\/poi\/la-riserva-naturale-di-montenero\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> Nature Reserve on the western slopes of Monte Nero<\/a>. Here the protected area preserves, among other things, the rocky environment of the <a href=\"https:\/\/volterratur.it\/en\/?post_type=poi&p=58737\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Strolla Torrent<\/a>, which has profoundly engraved the relief, drawing a picturesque and spectacular gorge with small waterfalls and pools of water. After about 650 m, a signposted path leads to a charming waterfall carved into the basalts, ophiolite rocks that are home to a particular herbaceous flora. <\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->","post_title":"Montenero Nature Reserve: Strolla waterfalls","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"montenero-nature-reserve-strolla-waterfalls","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-01-15 15:48:58","post_modified_gmt":"2022-01-15 15:48:58","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/valdicecinaoutdoor.it\/poi\/montenero-nature-reserve-strolla-waterfalls\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"poi","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7624,"post_author":"3","post_date":"2021-05-03 13:04:25","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-03 13:04:25","post_content":"<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p> From this point, you enter the Nature Reserve on the north-eastern slopes of Monte Nero (508 m), a modest but impassable hill behind the famous <a href=\"https:\/\/volterratur.it\/en\/?post_type=poi&p=59701\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Villa di Ulignano<\/a>. It opens up like a sudden wooded island with glimpses of rocky environments among the vast agricultural areas of the surrounding gentle hills, typical of the Tuscan landscape: the area is recognised by Europe as a Special Area of Conservation. The vegetation of the relief is characterised by evergreen woods - dominated by holm-oaks - and conifer reforestations, peculiar environments linked to the outcropping of basaltic lava rocks and wet woods with hop hornbeam, laburnum and many ferns. <br><a href=\"https:\/\/volterratur.it\/poi\/la-riserva-naturale-di-montenero\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read more...<\/a><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->","post_title":"Montenero Nature Reserve: Monte Nero","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"montenero-nature-reserve-monte-nero","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-01-15 14:41:03","post_modified_gmt":"2022-01-15 14:41:03","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/valdicecinaoutdoor.it\/poi\/montenero-nature-reserve-monte-nero\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"poi","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7608,"post_author":"3","post_date":"2021-05-03 12:58:50","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-03 12:58:50","post_content":"<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p> An ancient rural castle, then a stately villa and then a farm, the first records of which date back to 1139 when Pignano came under the dominion of the Bishop of Volterra. In 1252 it passed under the jurisdiction of the <a href=\"https:\/\/volterratur.it\/en\/volterra\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Municipality of Volterra<\/a>, and was then reduced to a villa by the end of the 13th century. The small church of S. Bartolomeo became a parish church in the 13th century. With the complete subjection to Florence, it became a rural villa surrounded by numerous farms. <br><a href=\"https:\/\/volterratur.it\/en\/?post_type=poi&p=59732\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read more...<\/a><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->","post_title":"Village of Pignano","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"village-of-pignano","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-01-15 09:21:06","post_modified_gmt":"2022-01-15 09:21:06","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/valdicecinaoutdoor.it\/poi\/village-of-pignano\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"poi","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7618,"post_author":"3","post_date":"2021-05-03 13:01:50","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-03 13:01:50","post_content":"<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p> Villa Palagione (17th century) and the surrounding area of <a href=\"https:\/\/volterratur.it\/en\/?post_type=poi&p=49604\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Monte Voltraio<\/a> were the property of the noble Volterra Minucci family, who for centuries were responsible for the political and economic interests of the Grand Dukes of Tuscany in this area. It was the summer residence and hunting lodge of noble families and used for agricultural production. The Villa was then \"modernised\" until, between the 18th and 19th centuries, it acquired its present appearance, retaining beautiful frescoed rooms and today housing an Intercultural Centre. <\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Situated on the top of the high and impervious hill in front of Palagione, the ancient castle of Monte Voltraio, whose name probably derives from vulture, dominates one of the most typical landscapes of the Volterra area. Built to control important communication routes, the first records date back to 967 thanks to the visit of Emperor Otto I of Saxony. Residence of the bishops of Volterra, it later became the object of a conflict with the young city-republic, which in 1218 led to a war in which the municipal troops attacked the fortress.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The summit fortress, abandoned since 1433, as well as the <a href=\"https:\/\/volterratur.it\/en\/?post_type=poi&p=58946\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">parish church of San Giovanni<\/a> at its foot, appear today tseriously damaged.<br><a href=\"https:\/\/volterratur.it\/en\/?post_type=poi&p=49604\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read more...<\/a><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->","post_title":"Palagione and Monte Voltraio","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"palagione-and-monte-voltraio","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-01-15 15:17:09","post_modified_gmt":"2022-01-15 15:17:09","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/valdicecinaoutdoor.it\/poi\/palagione-and-monte-voltraio\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"poi","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7610,"post_author":"3","post_date":"2021-05-03 12:59:12","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-03 12:59:12","post_content":"<!-- wp:paragraph {\"translatedWithWPMLTM\":\"1\"} -->\n<p> Volterra's psychiatric hospital, one of the largest and most modern in Italy, began as a begging hospital in 1884 and remained in operation until 1978, when the Basaglia Law was implemented. 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