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Pitigliano, a village carved into the tuff nicknamed Little Jerusalem, combines a 15th-century Jewish ghetto, a synagogue, the Palazzo Orsini and gorges along the Vie Cave
An Etruscan canyon carved into the tuff, paired with a small necropolis of chamber tombs and an image of Saint Joseph painted on the rock
Sorano, the Matera of Tuscany, stacks its houses carved into the tuff above the valley, between the Fortezza Orsini, Etruscan vie cave and hot springs at 37.5 °C
Sovana combines a 2,500-year-old Etruscan necropolis, Vie Cave carved into the tuff and a medieval hilltop borgo of 399 inhabitants
Tuff village clinging to its cliff, with a Jewish quarter, a 1598 synagogue, the Palazzo Orsini and Vie Cave carved by the Etruscans
Abandoned rock-cut town and one of the largest in Italy: about 200 cavities carved into the tuff, ramparts, cisterns and churches, inhabited until the 17th century
Sovana, a small medieval tuff town, is home to an Etruscan necropolis as well as the vie cave of Cavone and San Sebastiano, linked to the Città del Tufo park
Tuf trail linking Sorano to Vitozza: the via cava of San Rocco, the Lente valley and nearly 200 cave dwellings
At Sovana, the tomba Pola is an Etruscan temple tomb carved into the tuff: a single chamber of 18.50 m, a fluted column in place, a necropolis crossed by the vie cave
From the Madonna delle Grazie sanctuary, adjoining an Etruscan via cava, opens the most famous «postcard» view of Pitigliano perched on its tufa
Etruscan pathway carved into the tuff 2 km from Sorano, linking the San Rocco necropolis to the Lente valley
The Tomba della Sirena is an aedicula Etruscan tomb whose figured pediment is the only preserved one comparable to that of the Demoni alati, in the rock-cut necropolis of Sovana
Last stop of the vie cave circuit, the Via Cava di Poggio Cani plunges into corridors of tuff dug by the Etruscans, with caverns still used as wine cellars
This December 30 festival revives in Sorano the peasant tradition of bonfires, with pira, zampognari and Maremma products
A cliff-cut way carved by the Etruscans in the tuff, described as the most monumental in the Maremma, with tombs and engraved symbols
In Sovana, the Tomb of Ildebranda is a temple-tomb carved into the tuff, integrated into the rock-cut necropolis and the Vie Cave of the Città del Tufo park
Weekly market on Wednesday morning in Pitigliano, where shepherds and confectioners sell pecorino aged in tuff cellars and local sfratto
The Palazzo Orsini brings together two museums in an Aldobrandeschi palace of the 15th-16th centuries, with 21 frescoed rooms and an old oil mill
Sassotondo has been growing Ciliegiolo organically since 1994 and biodynamically since 2007 on the tuff of Sorano, with cuvées aged in terracotta
WinederingThe synagogue is at the heart of the «Little Jerusalem», the Jewish ghetto of Pitigliano occupied since the 15th century, extended by a museum and spaces carved into the tuff
The co-cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul, Gothic-Romanesque in style, stands on the tufa block overlooking the valley of Sovana's necropolis, a medieval borgo of just a few houses
Its 16th-century tuff arches, leaning against the medieval walls, and the fountain of the Sette Cannelle with animal heads mark the entrance to the village
Bianco di Pitigliano, among Italy's first DOCs, is born from the tufa lands of the old town, where the Cantina di Pitigliano brings together the grapes of the cru
Sorano is a medieval tuff town built by the Aldobrandeschi, whose houses cling above the Lente valley
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