Sorano

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The images of Sorano that stand in front of the two slopes on which it lies are suggestive: to the west, the tower-houses overlooking the valley, to the east an overlap of roofs and facades along the alleys that descend into hairpin bends. In between, fixed, the eighteenth-century Sasso Leopoldino, culmination of the tuffaceous block around which the village is organised.

From Sasso Leopoldino, along alleys, external stairs and loggias, passing under arches and near cellars excavated in the tuff, you cross the district of the old ghetto until you reach the river Lente, beyond which begin the vie cave. That of San Rocco, which rises on the other side, passes near the ruins of the church of the same name behind which extends a vast necropolis with chamber tombs, from where you have the best overview of the village, surmounted by the Rocca, which under the Orsini became one of the most remarkable examples of military architecture of the Renaissance.

A few km away, it is worth visiting the village of Sovana with the church of Santa Maria inside which is kept a rare pre-Romanesque ciborium, a unique jewel in Tuscany. Also worth seeing is the Cathedral and the Rocca aldobrandesca.