Pitigliano and Il Tour delle vie Cava
June 1, 2022 in Italy ⋅ ☀️ 28 °CPitigliano is a beautiful cliff town in southern Tuscany. According to Wikipedia it seems the founding of the city was lost, but its first known mention in writing was in 1061. Pitigliano was aRead more
Traveler In the southern part of Tuscany and precisely in the municipalities of Sovana, Sorano and Pitigliano (in the province of Grosseto) it is possible to make beautiful Trekking on foot in the Etruscan "Vie Cave" also called "Cavoni" or "Tagliate". The name derives from being long, narrow and deep paths. These streets were dug into the tuff (sometimes with walls as high as 20 m) by the Etruscans, who still remain a little known people. There are many mysteries concerning the "Vie Cave", the average length of these is around 400 m, this seems to be a standard even if there are much longer "cuts". Today 15 cuts remain in Pitligiano and Dave and I walked through 14 along the 6 mile network through the valleys and trees, it was beautiful.
Traveler This is so cool.
Hard to tell what would be a foot path or a street for cars !! EE [**]