Historical Sites

Sovana has retained the appearance of the classic medieval village.At the entrance to the town you will immediately find the ruins of the imposing Roc… Read the rest

The Strade Nuove and the Sistema dei Palazzi dei Rolli, constitute by the’uniformity’of the urban layout and the architectural fea… Read the rest

The Etruscan name is not known, perhaps dealing with that Statnes (or Staties) which in Roman times became a prefecture and was called Statonia. Ins… Read the rest

According to legend, its origins go back to the Greeks. The first century B.C. geographer Strabene himself has it descended from the Arcadians of Gree… Read the rest

Legend traces the founding of the Republic to a stonecutter originally from Rab, Dalmatia, named Marino. He came to Rimini in 257 A.D. where he worked… Read the rest

The grandiose Villla of the Mysteries is perhaps the best-known building of all the excavations, comprising about sixty rooms and the ruins of a subur… Read the rest

Piazza San Gaetano is one of the city’s historic squares, here in fact stood the ancient Agora in Greek times, and the ancient Forum in Roman ti… Read the rest

If è it is already beautiful to observe it from the plains, even more fascinating è is the wandering around the ancient village… Read the rest

The city, known in the 5th cent. above all for the figures of Parmenides and Zeno, founders of the famous Eleatic school of philosophy, reaches a peri… Read the rest

The Fountain of Neptune is located in the Town Hall Square. Its construction began in the late 16th century, at the behest of Viceroy Henry of Guzmán… Read the rest