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Cetona

Member of I Borghi più belli d'Italia

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The broad Piazza Garibaldi was laid out by Chiappino Vitelli, the general who received Cetona from Cosimo I de' Medici in the 16th century and turned its fortress into a private home. The town climbs the lower slopes of Monte Cetona, where southern Tuscany meets Umbria and Lazio, and the mountain's caves hold some of the oldest traces of human settlement in central Italy.

Highlights

  • The Civic Museum of the Prehistory of Monte Cetona
  • Belverde park, with prehistoric and Bronze Age caves
  • Santa Maria in Belverde, frescoed by Cola Petruccioli of Orvieto
  • The Collegiata della Santissima Trinità
  • Olive oil from the town's own groves

Summary based on Wikipedia and Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA), written with AI assistance.

Population: 2,488

Things to see

Travel guide (Wikivoyage)

Cetona is a medieval city in Siena in Tuscany.

Text from Wikivoyage, CC BY-SA

Nearby member villages

  1. San Casciano dei Bagni · 11 km
  2. Monteleone d'Orvieto · 14 km
  3. Paciano · 15 km
  4. Panicale · 18 km
  5. Allerona · 18 km

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