Prato is the second largest city in Tuscany with nearly 190,000 inhabitants (2009), behind Florence. It is a very active city, where still lives a little of its textile industry. It has kept medieval monuments such as the typical Palazzo Pretorio and its square, its Duomo, the imperial castle, its fortifications, and many churches … […]
Since antiquity, Carrara is famous for its white marble, extracted in the hundreds of quarries that surround the city. The region was already inhabited in the ninth century BC by Ligurians of Celtic origin. The city was considered a capital of Italian and international anarchist thought. It still remains for some today, even if the […]
The Natural Park of the Maremma was created in 1975. It measures 9800 hectares extending along the coast. Protected area, its nature is almost intact. Its coastal portion is one of the only parts of the Italian coastline that is virgin. It is also one of the most beautiful. The interior of the park is […]
The promontory of the Argentario is in the south of the Tuscan coast, in the province of Grosseto. Until the eighteenth century it was an island, but the deposits of alluvium formed little by little two lagoons of sand which connected it to the coast. Between these, is the village of Ortebello. Off the western […]
Pleasant village, but without any particular charm, Chiusi has enough to fascinate because it was an important Etruscan city. Several necropolis have been found in its surroundings. Its museum, the Museo Nazionale Etrusco, exhibits the finds made there. Its Romanesque cathedral has ancient columns. The murals were made by Viligiardi. Map Into the same category
This coastal area, north of Massa Carrara, is commonly known as the Cinque Terre, which means the Five Lands. It is located in Liguria, but very close to Tuscany, which makes it a destination of choice during a stay in Tuscany. Its appeal is due to the picturesque charm of the typical villages perched on […]
