5 Mountain Peaks to Explore in Tuscany
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Tuscany is known for its landscapes, history, artistic legacy, and its influence on high culture. It is regarded as the birthplace of the Italian Renaissance and has been home to many figures influential in the history of art and science, and contains well-known museums such as the Uffizi and the Pitti Palace. Tuscany is also known for its wines.
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Mountain Peaks to Explore in Tuscany
The Sanctuary is located on Mount Penna above Chiusi Della Verna in the province of Arezzo. This place is famous because it is St. Francis who lived here. It is today one of the places where St. Francis is venerated and even on a short visit, you can get a sense of its artistic cultural, historical, and religious interest. Built-in the southern part of Mount Penna at 1,128 meters and it is home to numerous chapels and places of prayer and meditation.
The Monti dell'Uccellina constitute a hilly group along the coastal strip of the Grosseto Maremma that divides the Ombrone plain to the north from the Albenga river plain to the south, in the territories of the municipalities of Grosseto, Magliano in Toscana and Orbetello. The whole area of the Uccellina Mountains is included within the Maremma Natural Park; the coast is high and rocky, except for the suggestive Cala di Forno which opens to the mistral winds.
The Mount Amiata is a mountain group of origin volcanic, located in ' Tuscan Antiappennino, between the Maremma, the Val d'Orcia and Val di Paglia, between the province of Grosseto and that of Siena. The origin of the toponym Amiata has been identified by some in the Latin ad meata , ie "at the springs". Other hypotheses on the etymology of the toponym Amiata have been represented in a local historical-cultural magazine.
The Monte Capanne is the highest peak of the ' island of Elba and the whole province of Livorno. Located in the western part of the island, it reaches a height of 1019 meters above sea level. Its summit can be reached in just 18 minutes via a cable car that leaves from Marciana . The Pomonte Valley, the largest valley on the island of Elba, departs from the summit.
The Valdarno is the valley crossed by the Arno with the exclusion of the first stretch, that is the Casentino, and the valleys formed by the main tributaries, such as, for example, the Val di Chiana, the Valdambra, the Sieve valley, the Valdelsa, the Valdera. The part that extends from Arezzo to Florence and from here to the Gonfolina squeeze is called Valdarno Superiore, that from Montelupo to Pisa Valdarno Inferiore.