Editing Volterra (section)

== Main sights ==

* [[Roman Theatre at Volterra|Roman Theatre of Volterra]], 1st century BC, excavated in the 1950s<ref name="Sear2006">{{cite book|author=Frank Sear|title=Roman Theatres: An Architectural Study|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wOlPAAAAMAAJ|date=20 July 2006|publisher=OUP Oxford|isbn=978-0-19-814469-4|pages=170–|quote=J. B. Ward Perkins, BSR 29 (1961), 64, 68. VOLATERRAE (Volterra, PI) (Plan 79, Pis. 35-6) Location: within Roman walls, built against steep slope immediately north of medieval walls. Cavea: D 63 m, facing north-west; ima cavea: 10 rows (o.) ..}}</ref><ref name="Steves2007">{{cite book|author=Rick Steves|title=Rick Steves' Florence and Tuscany 2008|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E5xYAAAAYAAJ|date=28 August 2007|publisher=Avalon Travel|pages=354–|isbn=9781566918541|quote=Over time, the theater was forgotten — covered in the garbage of Volterra. Luckily, it was rediscovered in the 1950s. The stage wall was standard Roman design — with three levels from which actors would appear: one for humans, one for ...}}</ref>
* [[Roman amphitheatre, Volterra|Roman Amphitheater]] discovered in 2015 and has been excavated over the succeeding years<ref>Volterra, the lost Roman Amphitheatre https://www.archaeoreporter.com/en/2020/11/18/volterra-roman-amphitheatre/</ref><ref>Lost Treasures of Rome, International teams of archaeologists embark on a season of excavations to unravel the secrets of life in the Roman Empire, Episode 3 https://www.channel4.com/programmes/lost-treasures-of-rome/on-demand/73653-003</ref><ref>Elena Sorge, Valeria d’Aquino, L’anfiteatro che non c’era. Storia di una scoperta, GIOCHI E SPETTACOLI NEL MONDO ANTICO
problematiche e nuove scoperte, Atti del Convegno Internazionale, 24 Marzo 2018, Reggio Emilia (RE) a cura di Paolo Storchi e Gianluca Mete</ref>
* [[Piazza dei Priori]], the main square, a fine example of medieval Tuscan town squares<ref name="StudentsFodor's1995">{{cite book|author1=University of California, Berkeley. Associated Students|author2=Fodor's|title=Italy '96: on the loose, on the cheap, off the beaten path|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RJCanIKO2N0C|date=1 December 1995|publisher=Fodor's Travel Publications|isbn=978-0-679-02985-4}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Mauro Staccioli: Sites of Experience|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1LZKAQAAIAAJ|year=2009|publisher=Damiani|isbn=978-88-6208-117-7|pages=167–|quote=Piazza dei Priori ... Volterra's main piazza was the center around which Staccioli's 1972 exhibition was organized. A symbol of central power, the piazza is ...}}</ref><ref name="Autoführer-Verlag1962">{{cite book|author=Baedekers Autoführer-Verlag|title=Italy, including Sicily and Sardinia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yC8uAQAAIAAJ|year=1962|publisher=K. Baedeker|pages=489–|quote=...The centre of Volterra is the *Piazza dei Priori, which is lined with medieval palazzi. On the W side, the stately Palazzo dei Priori, ...}}</ref>
* [[Palazzo dei Priori, Volterra|Palazzo dei Priori]]: town hall on main piazza, begun in 1208 and finished in 1257<ref name="BurresiFuriesi2007">{{cite book|author1=Mariagiulia Burresi|author2=Alessandro Furiesi|author3=Gabriella Belli|title=Il Palazzo dei Priori di Volterra: storia e restauro|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UKDwLAAACAAJ|year=2007|publisher=Nuova Immagine|language=it|isbn=978-88-7145-263-0}}</ref><ref name="Publications2003">{{cite book|author=Inc. Fodor's Travel Publications|title=Fodor's Florence, Tuscany, and Umbria|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FoZdZLXhrMQC|year=2003|publisher=Fodor's|isbn=978-1-4000-1108-7|pages=195–|quote=As you make the dramatic climb up to Volterra through bleak, rugged terrain, you'll see that not all ... Piazza dei Priori, lined with an impressive collection of medieval buildings, including the imposing Palazzo dei Priori ...}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Encyclopedia Americana: Venice to Wilmot|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cg3YAAAAMAAJ|year=2006|publisher=Scholastic Library Pub.|isbn=978-0-7172-0139-6|pages=230–|quote=... In Piazza dei Priori, one of Italy's finest medieval squares, stand the 13th century Palazzo dei Priori or town hall, housing ...}}</ref>
* [[Pinacoteca e museo civico di Volterra]]: Art Museum housed in Palazzo Minucci-Solaini.<ref name="Volterra1989">{{cite book|author=Pinacoteca di Volterra|title=La Pinacoteca di Volterra|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=muXqAAAAMAAJ|year=1989|publisher=Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze}}</ref><ref name="BurresiCaleca2006">{{cite book|author1=Mariagiulia Burresi|author2=Antonino Caleca|title=Volterra d'oro e di pietra|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ykVIAQAAIAAJ|year=2006|publisher=Pacini|language=it|isbn=978-88-7781-775-4|pages=58–|quote=Qui, nel rispetto della sua vocazione a documentare la consistenza dell'arte a Volterra, è stato creato il Museo di palazzo Minucci-Solaini, accostando al primitivo nucleo della Pinacoteca civica di Corrado Ricci, dipinti, sculture e arredi anch ...}}</ref> Founded in 1905,<ref name="CarlettiGiometti2001">{{cite book|author1=Lorenzo Carletti|author2=Cristiano Giometti|title=Scultura lignea pisana: percorsi nel territorio tra Medioevo e Rinascimento|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g-pKAQAAIAAJ|year=2001|publisher=F. Motta|isbn=978-88-7179-302-3|pages=117–|quote=Dal 1982 la Pinacoteca di Volterra è ospitata nelle sale del rinascimentale Palazzo Minucci-Solaini, ma la ... annessa al Duomo; quindi, su proposta di Corrado Ricci, nel 1905 la collezione fu spostata nel Palazzo dei Priori e arricchita. ... From 1982 onwards, the Pinacoteca in Volterra has been located in the rooms of the Renaissance Palazzo Minucci- Solaini, but the history of the ...}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Toscana: (esclusa Firenze)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=daPLXG957RgC |year=1997|publisher=Touring Editore|language=it|isbn=978-88-365-0948-5|pages=464–|quote=A destra, nel breve sdrucciolo di Piazza, è la torre Martinoli, fianco del palazzo Incontri (pag. 459). VIA DANIELE RICCIARELLI (il pittore del '500 più noto come Daniele da Volterra). ... il vicino volto si sbuca nella piazzetta caratterizzata dalla casa-torre Minucci (secolo xm), inglobata nel palazzo Solaini (v. sotto). ... Nucleo fondamentale del complesso museale è la raccolta della Galleria pittorica comunale (Pinacoteca), fondata nel 1905 nel palazzo dei Priori e comprendente un 1 3 IL ...}}</ref> the gallery consists mostly of works by Tuscan artists from 14th to 17th centuries.<ref name="Publications2000">{{cite book|author=Michelin Travel Publications|title=Tuscany|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EScZAQAAMAAJ|year=2000|publisher=Michelin Travel Publications|isbn=978-2-06-000010-7|pages=313–|quote=Volterra crags (baize) Pinacoteca 0 - Via dei Sarti 1; in the Palazzo Minucci-Solaini. The art gallery has some interesting works of religious art by Tuscan masters of the 14C-17C ...}}</ref> Includes a [[Deposition from the Cross, Volterra (Rosso Fiorentino)|''Deposition'']] by [[Rosso Fiorentino]].<ref name="Papi1999">{{cite book|author=Anna Benvenuti Papi|title=Volterra e la Val di Cecina|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jY7qAAAAMAAJ|year=1999|publisher=Mondadori|language=it|isbn=978-88-04-46773-1|quote=Dal 1982 la Galleria Pittorica, o Pinacoteca, è ospitata nelle sale del palazzo Minucci-Solaini ... Tra le opere più significative segnaliamo, oltre la celebre e grandiosa tavola della Deposizione del Rosso Fiorentino, polittici ...}}</ref><ref name="Student'sInc.1999">{{cite book|author1=Harvard Student's|author2=Let's Go, Inc.|title=Let's Go: the Budget Guide to Italy|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kVY7AAAAMAAJ|year=1999|publisher=St. Martin's Press|pages=299–|isbn=9780312194888|quote=Volterra's Fortezza Medicea, an elegant remnant from the Florentine domination, is the town's most prominent structure. ... On the other side of P. dei Priori, on V. dei Sard, the Pinacoteca Comunale occupies the Palazzo Minucci-Solaini (tel. ... In his Deposition (1520), the most significant piece of the collection, Rosso Fiorentino appears to abandon High Renaissance ...}}</ref>
* Etruscan Acropolis and Roman Cistern. The acropolis on the citadel dates to the 8th century B.C., while the cistern is from the 1st century B.C.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://volterratur.it/en/poi/the-etruscan-acropolis/ | title=The etruscan Acropolis }}</ref>
* [[Volterra Cathedral]]. It was enlarged in the 13th century after an earthquake. It houses a [[Ciborium (architecture)|ciborium]] and some angels by [[Mino da Fiesole]], a notable wood ''Deposition'' (1228), a masterwork of Romanesque sculpture and the Sacrament Chapel, with paintings by [[Santi di Tito]], [[Giovanni Balducci]] and [[Agostino Veracini]]. In the center of the vault are fragments of an ''Eternal Father'' by [[Niccolò Circignani]]. Also noteworthy is the Addolorata Chapel, with a terracotta group attributed to [[Andrea della Robbia]] and a fresco of ''Riding Magi'' by [[Benozzo Gozzoli]]. In the nearby chapel, dedicated to the Most Holy Name of Jesus, is a table with Christ's monogram, allegedly painted by [[Bernardino of Siena]]. The rectangular bell tower is from 1493.
* [[Volterra Baptistery]] or Baptistery of San Giovanni, built in the second half of the 13th century.
* [[Fortezza Medicea (Volterra)|Fortezza Medicea]] (Medicean Fortress),<ref name="SaleKidd2014">{{cite book|author1=Denbigh Sale|author2=Marie Kidd|author3=Julian Pitt|title=Our Secret Tuscany: In the Foothills of Monte Pisano|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YOPNCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT53|date=1 December 2014|publisher=Australian eBook Publisher|isbn=978-1-925271-65-2|pages=53–|quote=Although Volterra isn't strictly in the region of the Monte Pisano, we highly recommend a visit to this atmospheric hilltown which ... From its commanding hilltop position, the enormous Medici Fortress (Fortezza Medicea) looks out over Volterra.}}</ref> built in the 1470s,<ref name="FacarosPauls2004">{{cite book|author1=Dana Facaros|author2=Michael Pauls|title=Italy|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XixojYgnRtsC&pg=PA685|year=2004|publisher=New Holland Publishers|isbn=978-1-86011-113-6|pages=685–|quote=... in the 'archaeological park' near the Fortezza Medicea, a big castle built on what was the Etruscan acropolis in the 1470s. ... Volterra 's most conspicuous ancient relic, however, is the Etruscan arch in the south wall, over Via Porta all'Arco.}}</ref> now a [[prison]]<ref name="HamiltonMacleod2014">{{cite book|author1=Rachael Hamilton|author2=Allison Macleod|author3=Jenny Munro|title=Spaces of (Dis)location|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OtYxBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA164|date=18 July 2014|publisher=Cambridge Scholars Publishing|isbn=978-1-4438-6451-0|pages=164–|quote=Volterra's identity was not only characterized by its tradition of alabaster craft and by the psychiatric hospital, but also by the high security penitentiary located in the Fortezza Medicea. The Duke of Florence, Lorenzo il Magnifico, constructed the ...}}</ref> housing the noted restaurant, [[Fortezza Medicea restaurant]].<ref name=Spiegel>{{cite news|last=Orth|first=Stephan|title=Gefängnis Volterra: Zu Gast bei Ganoven|url=http://www.spiegel.de/reise/europa/0,1518,504012,00.html|access-date=30 January 2012|newspaper=[[Spiegel Online]]|date=10 September 2007}}</ref><ref name=Reuters>{{cite news|last=Gumuchian|first=Marie-Louise|title=Guests give top marks to Italian gourmet jail|url=http://uk.reuters.com/article/oukoe-uk-italy-prison-dining-idUKL1772094820080521|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306101603/http://uk.reuters.com/article/oukoe-uk-italy-prison-dining-idUKL1772094820080521|url-status=dead|archive-date=6 March 2016|access-date=30 January 2012|newspaper=[[Reuters]]|date=20 May 2008}}</ref><ref name=Telegraph>{{cite news|last=Pisa|first=Nick|title='They made me a pasta I couldn't refuse'|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/1552129/They-made-me-a-pasta-I-couldnt-refuse.html|access-date=30 January 2012|newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph]]|date=20 May 2007}}</ref>
* [[Museo Etrusco Guarnacci|Guarnacci Etruscan Museum]],<ref name="Cateni2004">{{cite book|author=Gabriele Cateni|title=Volterra: The Guarnacci Etruscan Museum|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_MOfAAAAMAAJ|year=2004|publisher=Pacini|isbn=978-88-7781-622-1}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Brief guide to the Guarnacci Etruscan Museum of Volterra|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JyuxygAACAAJ|year=1970|publisher=Edizioni I.F.I.}}</ref> with thousands of funeral urns dating back to the [[Hellenistic]] and [[archaic period in Greece|Archaic]] periods.<ref name="McCannN.Y.)1978">{{cite book|author1=Anna Marguerite McCann|author2=Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)|title=Roman Sarcophagi in the Metropolitan Museum of Art|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PBstaVWigg0C&pg=PA58|year=1978|publisher=Metropolitan Museum of Art|pages=58–|quote=Etruscan ... Cf. particularly the stern of a galley represented on an Etruscan funerary urn in the Guarnacci Museum in Volterra, Pairault, op. cit, pl. 1142.' Also see the stern of a galley...}}</ref><ref name="Museum1981">{{cite book|author=The J. Paul Getty Museum|title=The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal: Volume 9, 1981|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K24mAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA55|date=1 January 1981|publisher=Getty Publications|isbn=978-0-89236-032-1|pages=55–|quote=...in keeping with the gradual proliferation of large-sca1e sculpture throughout Etruria from the end of the fourth and beginning of ... Evidence for North Etruscan workmanship is offered by the reliefs on cinerary urns of Volterra, Chiusi, and Perugia, and the sculptural ... Museo Etrusco Guarnacci, inv. no.}}</ref> Main attractions are the bronze statuette "[[Ombra della sera]]" ({{Literal translation|"Shadow of the Evening"}}),<ref name="ChamberlinPaterson1994">{{cite book|author1=Eric Russell Chamberlin|author2=Ken Paterson|author3=Thomas Cook Ltd|title=Passport's Illustrated travel guide to Florence & Tuscany|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NwkrQG789HgC|year=1994|publisher=Passport Books|isbn=978-0-8442-9055-3|quote=MUSEO ETRUSCO GUARNACCI This is one of the most important museums of Etruscan art in Italy. ... as the 'Shadow of the Night', discovered in 1879 and used as a firepoker until experts realised this was a masterpiece of Etruscan art.}}</ref> and the sculpted effigy, "Urna degli Sposi" ({{Literal translation|"Urn of the Spouses"}}) of an Etruscan couple in terra cotta.<ref name="Steves2015">{{cite book|author=Rick Steves|title=Rick Steves Snapshot Hill Towns of Central Italy: Including Siena & Assisi|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DQYrCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT94|date=29 December 2015|publisher=Avalon Travel Publishing|isbn=978-1-63121-204-8|pages=94–|quote=The museum's other top piece is the Urn of the Spouses (Urna degli Sposi, first century B.C.). It's unique for various reasons, including its material (it's in terracotta—a relatively rare material for these funerary urns) and its depiction of two ...}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Florence and Tuscany. A complete guide with itineraries|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=A-dY5yXJ4A8C&pg=PA64|year=2011|publisher=ATS Italia Editrice|isbn=978-88-6524-400-5|pages=64–|quote=Among the works housed here, particularly remarkable are: the vase with black figures, the cinerary urn with the deceased (Atteone), the mirror with dioscuri and the Urn of the spouses. Volterra Guarnacci Etruscan Museum, Evening Shadow ...}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Kunst und Geschichte der Toskana: ein Landstrich voller Wohlgeschmack und Farbenfreude eine Region, in der die gastronomische Überlieferung auf magische Weise mit einer jahrtausendealten Kultur verbunden ist|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ohfozX4-bpQC&pg=PA91|year=1970|publisher=Casa Editrice Bonechi|language=de|isbn=978-88-476-1794-0|pages=91–|quote=SCHATTEN DES ABENDS Museo Etrusco Guarnacci Die Figur stammt aus der Florentiner Sammlung der Familie Buonarroti und wurde von ... Unten der Deckel einer Aschenurne, der sogenannten Urna degli Sposi (des Ehepaares}}</ref><ref name="Italy2005">{{cite book|author=Touring Club of Italy|title=Authentic Tuscany|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gu9Ev_4PL5oC&pg=PA72|year=2005|publisher=Touring Editore|isbn=978-88-365-3297-1|pages=72–|quote=The Museo Etrusco Guarnacci O has forty rooms housing an enormous collection of antiquities from prehistoric to ... alabaster and terracotta (4th-1st century BC) from local excavations, including the famous Urna degli Sposi (Urn of the Married ...}}</ref>
* The Etruscan {{ill|Walls of Volterra|it|Mura di Volterra}}, including the well-preserved {{ill|Porta all'Arco|it|Porta all'Arco (Volterra)}} (3rd-2nd centuries BC),<ref name="Dennis1848">{{cite book|author=George Dennis|title=The Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria | url = https://archive.org/details/etruriacitiesand02denniala|year=1848|publisher=John Murray|pages=[https://archive.org/details/etruriacitiesand02denniala/page/146 146]–|quote=Volterra. He may know it by the sign of three naked females, the most graceless things about the house. The landlord, SigTM. Ottavio ... From the "Unione," a few steps will lead to the Porta all' Arco.3 I envy the stranger his first impressions on ...}}</ref><ref name="James1995">{{cite book|author=Henry James|title=Italian Hours|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xj2RBA8bxxUC&pg=PT339|date=1 March 1995|publisher=Penguin Publishing Group|isbn=978-1-101-17386-2|pages=339–|quote=I may not invite the reader to penetrate with me by so much as a step the boundless backward reach of history to which the more massive of the Etruscan gates of Volterra, the Porta all'Arco, forms the solidest of thresholds; since I perforce take ...}}</ref> and {{ill|Porta Diana|it}} gates.<ref name="Giovannelli1613">{{cite book|author=Mario Giovannelli|title=Cronistoria dell'antichità, e nobiltà di Volterra, cominciando dal principio della sua edificazione infin'al giorno d'hoggi. ... Raccolta da diuersi scrittori per ... fra Mario Giouannelli ..|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=U888obkpQNcC&pg=PA4|year=1613|publisher=appresso Giouanni Fontani|pages=4–}}</ref><ref name="Banti1973">{{cite book|author=Luisa Banti|title=Etruscan Cities and Their Culture|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3zzu5EjrCrsC&pg=PA146|year=1973|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-01910-2|pages=146–|quote=These natural communication routes all met just below the city, where the village of Saline di Volterra stands today. Then as now, Volterra ... The two city gates — Porta Diana and Porta all'Arco — are Etruscan only in their lower part. The three ...}}</ref>
* The [[Medici]] {{ill|Villa di Spedaletto|it}}, outside the city, in direction of [[Lajatico]]<ref name="BalleriniScalini2003">{{cite book|author1=Isabella Lapi Ballerini|author2=Mario Scalini|title=The Medici Villas: Complete Guide|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2RfyLCXpmY0C&pg=PA83|year=2003|publisher=Giunti Editore|isbn=978-88-09-02995-8|pages=84–}}</ref>
* There are excavations of Etruscan [[tomb]]s in the Valle Bona area.
* [[Sant'Alessandro, Volterra|Sant'Alessandro]], Romanesque Roman Catholic church.
*[[Volterra Psychiatric Hospital]], founded in 1888. Closed in 1978, it was reopened for public and will be once more used for psychiatric purposes.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Simioli|first=Adele|date=June 2013|title=L'ipotesi di ospedale psichiatrico di Daniele Calabi: progetti e realizzazioni|journal=Territorio|issue=65|pages=85–88|doi=10.3280/tr2013-065013|issn=1825-8689}}</ref>
*[[Palazzo Inghirami, Volterra]]

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