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Cinerary urns of the Villanovan culture. The pre-Etruscan history of the area in the middle and late Bronze parallels that of the archaic Greeks. [1] The Tuscan area was inhabited by peoples of the so-called Apennine culture in the second millennium BC (roughly 1400–1150 BC) who had trading relationships with the Minoan and Mycenaean civilizations in the Aegean Sea, [1] and, at the end of ...
From the Etruscans, Tuscany took the name of Etruria, Tuscia for the Romans and subsequently Tuscania and Tuscany. While the areas of north-western Tuscany were inhabited by the ancient Ligures . In northwestern Tuscany, the area between the Arno and Magra rivers was culturally aligned with the Etruscans in the early Iron Age, and came under ...
Location of Tuscany within Italy Provinces of Tuscany. The following is a list of the municipalities of Tuscany, Italy. [1] There are 273 municipalities in Tuscany (as of January 2019): 36 in the Province of Arezzo; 41 in the Metropolitan City of Florence; 28 in the Province of Grosseto; 19 in the Province of Livorno; 33 in the Province of Lucca
Lucca was an important city and fortress even in the sixth century, when Narses besieged it for several months in 553. From 576 to 797, under the Lombards, it was the capital of a duchy, known as Duchy of Tuscia, which included a large part of today's Tuscany and the province of Viterbo, during this time the city also minted its own coins. [17]
Pages in category "Cities and towns in Tuscany" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 329 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
After a two-year trial, the project was released to the public in December 2010 under the name iBarga, allowing visitors to get up-to-date information about the city on their phones. The British writer Len Deighton wrote his novel SS-GB at a rented hut on the outskirts of Barga, using a manual typewriter bought in the town. One of the novel's ...
Siena was an important city in medieval Europe, and its historic centre is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, which contains several buildings from the 13th and 14th centuries. [ 9 ] [ 12 ] The city is famous for its cuisine , art , museums , medieval cityscape and the Palio , a horse race held twice a year in Piazza del Campo .
Vinci (English: / ˈ v ɪ n tʃ i / VIN-chee, Italian:) [3] is a comune of the Metropolitan City of Florence in the Italian region of Tuscany. [4] The birthplace of Renaissance polymath Leonardo da Vinci lies just outside the town.