TUFF CITIES: PITIGLIANO, SOVANA AND SORANO

From Murci drive right and after 6 Km go right on the road Usi-Saturnia, after 500 m. go left to Rocchette di Fazio. Little mid age village, on the roc above the Albegna River: The Aldobrandesca fortress, the ingress door of the castle, the magistrate palace and the hospital built in 1300. Forward you find Semproniano. Also this is a medieval village on the top of the hill, so you climb across very little streets and stairs just to the rests of the Aldobrandesca castle. Then you continue passing Cattabbio and S.Martino sul Fiore and find before Sovana you can visit the necropolis and excavations of Sopraripa (3°and 2° century before Christ) and on the hill near to it Poggio Prisca there is the grave Ildebranda of the 3°century, important grave, evidencing the wellness of the local aristocracy and the Sileno grave with his singular circle structure. A lit behind on the same pad you admire a room grave in witch afterwards was made a characteristic pigeons house. In the Roman period these were used for conserve ash urns.
Sovana: unique village with a lot of story.
Sorano, built on one of the many plateau of the Lente River, is a medieval village almost intact. The Orsini fortress is an important witness of the medieval and renaissance architecture. Born as a defence point of the Aldobrandeschi was afterwards (in 1380) included in the new construction of the Orsini Palace. You enter by crossing a bridge over a first ditch. In the centre you see an ingress door with arch, decorated with the lions of the Aldobrandeschi and the bears and roses of the Orsini.