Going down the hill of Cortona on the foothills, among olive groves of rare beauty, you can visit the tanella of Pythagoras, a famous monument known to travelers since 1500, the tanella is a small tumulus of the Hellenistic period (II se. BC) consists of a circular base on which it sets another drum with juxtaposed blocks. The interior has a short dromos and a small rectangular room covered by a barrel vault. The first information about it is related to a visit of G. Vasari in 1566 that seems to judge the tomb of Archimedes. Since then, visitors have indulged themselves in recognizing in the construction some the tomb of Ulysses, others that of Pythagoras, recalled in such attributions from the Greek-Hellenistic style of its architecture. The monument underwent progressive deterioration from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, when passing French troops did considerable damage. The most recent critics date it to the second century B.C. It was donated to the Etruscan Academy in 1929 by Mrs. Maria Laparelli Pitti. La Tanella can be reached by car or through trekking routes.
