Casale Marittimo

From its hill above the Val di Cecina, twelve kilometres from the coast, Casale Marittimo looks over land the Etruscans settled around 700 BC. The Casa Nocera tombs yielded two stone statues among the oldest free-standing sculptures found in Italy, now in Florence. The village was later a castle of the Della Gherardesca counts, and the Arco Cancellieri still frames its Piazza del Popolo.

Highlights

• Piazza del Popolo, seen through the Arco Cancellieri
• The chapel of the Madonna delle Grazie and the church of Sant'Andrea
• The princely Casa Nocera tomb finds, shown in Cecina's archaeological museum

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