Jewel of Etruscan, roman, medioeval and rinascimentale art,
dominates the Cecina valley up to the see.
D’Annunzio defined it "city of the silence."
And Volterra appears crystallized in the years of gold of its past,
when was a free common.
Here the history has left its sign with artistic and monumental testimonies of big relief.
Superbly preserved, it is among the medioeval centers more fascinating of Italy, with intact angles as the so-called crossroads of the Buonparentis.
The alleys of the old city, flanked from shops of alabaster, meet in the Piazza dei Priori”, dominated from the most ancient town building in Tuscany.
The religious center is picked up around Piazza San Giovanni, where the Baptistery and the Cathedral with splendid works signed among the others by Mino from Fiesole, Andrea della Robbia and Benozzo Gozzoli that, in the Chapel of the Our Lady of Sorrows  left the Ridden of the Magis.
Important the Guarnacci Etruscan Museum and the Pinacoteca, with a superlative "Deposition" of Rosso Fiorentino.