Volterra
Volterra is an Italian town of 11,160 inhabitants in the province of Pisa.
The city, famous for the extraction and processing of alabaster, has a great center ofEtruscan origin (of this era is the door Arch door beautifully preserved and the doorthat Diana kept the blocks of the strains) and Roman ruins and medieval buildings likethe Cathedral and the Palazzo dei Priori on the square, the nerve center of town. Thename is obviously of Etruscan origin and later adapted to Latin volaterrae. Velathri(ancient name of the Volterra) was part of the Etruscan Etruscan or lucumoniedodecapoli said. The king (and high priest) was dettoluchmon (lucumone). Part of the area was the epicenter of the earthquake of August 2, 1853, which reachedmagnitudo4.63 the Richter Scale and Grade V-VI Mercalli Scale.
