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Volterra

[image ALT: A town of southern Tuscany: 43 degrees 24 minutes North latitude, 11 degrees 12 minutes East longitude. Altitude: 3 meters. 2000 population: 11,700. If this is a link, it leads to a dry‑bones summary of this place, with map references, bibliographies etc.]
[image ALT: zzz]
On the façade of the 13c Palazzo dei Priori,
the maiolica badges of some of the commissaires of the Florentine republic.

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[image ALT: zzz. It is zzz in Volterra, in Tuscany (central Italy).]

[image ALT: A stylized representation of a metal hand-mirror, taken from the binding of a book. It is an Etruscan mirror motif representing that book, George Dennis's 'Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria'.]

But for the serious student with an interest in the Etruscans, the two chapters on the town in George Dennis's Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria.

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