Holidays in volterra

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Holidays in volterra

The city, famous for the extraction and processing of alabaster, has a major center of Etruscan origin (of this era remains the Gate Arch, beautifully preserved, and the Porta Diana, which keeps the blocks of the jambs, and most the city walls, built with cyclopean blocks of local stone the Acropolis, where there are two temples, various buildings and a few tanks, and numerous tombs used for the burial of the dead), with Roman ruins and medieval buildings such as the Cathedral, the Medici Fortress and Palazzo dei Priori on the square, the nerve center of town.