“Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen, even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.”

Leonardo da Vinci

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Tuscany, the flowered heart of Italy is known as the golden land, renowned for its art, history and evocative landscape, famous for its cypress rows, olive trees, vineyards, hills in the infinity and walled medieval villages. Tuscany is a region where the past and the present merge together and coexist in perfect harmony.

Towards the 8th Century B.C. traces of a mysterious and extraordinary population started to appear all over Italy : the Etruscans (the people of the sea), Etruria got its name from them. Under the Romans the name was transformed into Tuscia, then changed again into Tuscania and finally into Toscana.
They created roads, reclaimed swamps and built great cities such as Volterra, Chiusi, Cortona, Arezzo, Fiesole (close to Florence), Vulci, Vetulonia, Veio, Volsini, Terracina and Tarquinia.
The exceptional archaeological findings, scattered over an extremely vast territory and found in tombs of all kinds and dimensions in the extraordinary and almost incredible necropolises or "the cities of the dead", testify to the degree of civilization that this population reached.