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Volterra
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Alabaster-carving is the local speciality of this windswept town with its medieval alleyways. The Museo Etrusco Guarnacci has one of Italy’s finest Etruscan collections, and the worn basalt heads adorning Porta all’Arco (4th century BC) represent Etruscan gods. The remains of a Roman theatre and baths are best seen from the viewing point off Via Guarnacci. The Pisan-striped 13th-century Duomo, with its meticulously carved and painted ceiling, houses Byzantine and Renaissance treasures, while the Pinacoteca boasts a fully intact Taddeo di Bartolo altarpiece (1411), Ghirlandaio’s final painting (Apotheosis of Christ , 1492), Luca Signorelli’s Annunciation (1491) and Rosso Fiorentino’s masterful early Mannerist Deposition (1521).
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