You’ll start your guided tour climbing Volterra’s medieval walls. From here you’ll admire the view of the soft round hills that surround the city. On clear days it’s even possible to see the island of Corsica.
A five minute walk brings you to an outstanding Etruscan Arch, a door erected 2300 years ago: one of the only two doors still standing in the whole world. A few more steps through narrow streets and small squares and you’ll be sitting in one of the best preserved Roman theatres in Italy. Along the straight roads, behind the stone facades of the tower houses and the Romanic Churches, a world of intense colours unfolds: paintings, sculptures and frescos. Among them, in the Dome in Piazza dei Priori, you’ll admire the famous Deposition from the Cross, the works by Benozzo Gozzoli and Fra Bartolomeo. The artistic itinerary will end with the visit of the Baptistery.
But you cannot leave the city without giving a close look to the beauties of alabaster, a clear and candid stone that has traditionally been worked here since the Etruscans’ times. You’ll meet the artisans that keep this ancient manufacturing culture alive by creating vases and sculptures. At the end of the tour, to give you time to absorb all this beauty, you ‘ll relax in a typical spot and savour local Pecorino cheese.
