TUSCANY - CRETE SENESI - TREQUANDA - VAL D'ORCIA
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We are in the territory of the Crete Senesi behind the Val d'Orcia.
The Crete Senesi hills are a very special, southeast of Siena, whose clay composition is due to the nature of their ancient sea basin, which settles in the sand and mud .
The main feature of Crete is thus a more prominent nature and character of the environment, made of very unusual colors such as gray and yellow clay sulfate. But this, paradoxically, is also a malleable earth, where everyone from the most noble commander of the humble shepherds, has left a trace of his passage through and changing the appearance. Therefore, they are visible the paths of flocks, and numerous vineyards and truffles, as well as the ancient Via Cassia built by the Romans and renamed Via Francigena emperors. Through its thousands of pilgrims crossed the Crete during the Middle Ages, for Rome. You can also find numerous churches, abbeys and farmhouses that have arisen in all ages.
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 Important historical artistic renaissance of the Val d'Orcia, famous for being the birthplace of Silius Aeneas Piccolomini (Pope Pius II), a major crop Pecorino di Pienza.
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 Ancient medieval town, its fort was the last banner of defense of Siena against Florence. Its territory, which is part of the Artistic Natural and Cultural Val d'Orcia, is covered by the cultivation of the vine (that produces high value wines like the famous Brunello)
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 At 605 meters above sea level at the turn of the Val d'Orcia and Val di Chiana. Montepulciano originated from Etruscans. Medieval village surrounded by three rings of walls, the fourteenth century.
He also known for its wine Nobile di Montepulciano DOCG
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 The city of the Palio, rich in history, art and culture. Are important museums where there are works of famous artists such as Duccio di Boninsegna, Simeon Martini Jacopo della Quercia, John and Nicola Pisano, Donatello, Pinturicchio ETCC.
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