Pitigliano
A town growing straight out of a tufa cliff, with roads cut down into the rock around it by people nobody can fully explain.
8 days outthe nearest is a 2 h 18 drive from Rome
Pitigliano is built on the edge of a spur, and from the road below the houses look like a continuation of the rock. The Medici aqueduct crosses the ravine on arches, the Orsini fortress holds the diocesan museum, and the fountain of the seven spouts is where the town has taken its water for centuries.
The vie cave are the reason to stay: Etruscan sunken roads cut down through the tufa, in places above head height, running between the towns of this valley. There is a walking ring that takes most of a day, and a co-operative winery inside the town for afterwards.
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With your handsThe co-operative winery of Pitigliano, working since 1954, runs guided tastings in a room fitted out in corten steel.
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On the trailThe diocesan museum inside the Orsini fortress that dominates Pitigliano, spread over twenty-one rooms: Renaissance frescoes, painted wooden ceilings, sculpture including work a…
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On the trailA ten-kilometre ring around the town of Pitigliano, walking the vie cave - corridors cut metres deep into the tufa by the Etruscans - and the valleys and medieval paths that lin…
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In the old stonesAn aqueduct at Pitigliano.
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In the old stonesA Baroque cathedral at Pitigliano.
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In the old stonesA fountain at Pitigliano.
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In the old stonesTown walls at Pitigliano.
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In the old stonesA Baroque sanctuary at Pitigliano.
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