Amiata territory is framed by the wild Maremma in the West and squiggly Terre di Siena in the East, where the ancient extinct volcano of Monte Amiata, vigil on great sleeping giant.

 

UNEXPECTED AND VARIEGATED LANDSCAPES

The Amiata territory is full of olive groves and vineyards that give rise to a production of oils and wines from excellent quality. From its peaks, with clear skies, you can enjoy an incomparable view: almost all of Central and Northern Apennines, the Alto Appennino of Parma and the Ligurian Apennines but also much of the Arcipelago Toscano with the Elba Island and monte Argentario. Many protected areas are hosted inside as the Monte Labbro nature reserves, of Pescinello, Monte Penna.

 

SMALL TOWNS ALONG THE VIA FRANCIGENA

An area inhabited since ancient times, even from the Middle Palaeolithic, Amiata saw the birth in the middle ages the first villages and churches; the Abbazia di San Salvatore al Monte Amiata is reported for the first time in a document dated 762. In the modern period was characterized by village communities that drew their resources especially from sharing of common goods (forests, pastures, chestnut, all seed potatoes).

Significant and precious heritage of small fortified villages, castles and villas were to land ornament, connected by roads that have as their basis the famous Via Francigena.

The historical artifacts today can be adjusted a bit in all municipalities that make up the area, evidence of incessant intersection of men and cultures that populated the territory of Southern Tuscany.