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The Region
Half way between the striking Volterra CliffsArea characterised by gorges created by hillside slides and slippages caused by the erosive action of atmospheric precipitations. The water infiltrates the permeable sandy deposits at the top of the Volterra hill and removes the impermeable clay under them, thus causing the clay’s progressive retreat and the ensuing slide due to the collapse of the sandy and arenaceous layers lying over it. This imposing erosion process, active for some centuries, has even affected a portion of an Etruscan necropolis and the ancient church of San Giusto al Botro, forever engulfed into the abyss during the first half of the 17th century. and the gentle Sienese hills of San Gimignano, the Caseificio Pinzani benefits from one of the world’s most charming and unique territories.
San Gimignano
A splendid example of a medieval town still intact in its original layout, San Gimignano dominates a romantic countryside from a hilltop where olive groves and vineyards alternate with green pastures.
The proud towers that stand out inside the town sketch a magical skyline that has made San Gimignano famous throughout the world, to the point of being renamed the medieval Manhattan.
Volterra
Volterra’s characteristic skyline stands out strongly against a landscape marked strikingly by the famous Cliffs: ravines created by hillsides landslides and slippages.
Surrounded by a pristine environment, the town maintains intact the traces of various civilisations that have accompanied it through the
centuries, dominating the entire Val di Cecina from a hill all the way to the sea.
