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A Gazetteer of Tuscany

A region of central Italy: 22,991 square kilometers. 2003 population: 3,516,000. Capital: Florence.

A large stone church with a tall square tower and a much shorter, squat octagonal tower, overlooking an urban landscape with small pine trees. It is the Duomo, or cathedral, of Massa Marittima, Tuscany (central Italy).

The cathedral of Massa Marittima towards sunset.

If Italy is not all Tuscany, Tuscany is definitely Italy: amidst olive groves and rolling hills punctuated with cypresses, steepled mediaeval villages, cities of great art and architecture and infusing everything, the light: commented on, painted, photographed, never caught.

Nor have I caught all of Tuscany. Except for a day spent in Florence when I was twenty, footloose and unencumbered by a camera, I've mostly nibbled at the southern, eastern and western edges of the region, happily lost in some rather odd places by normal tourist standards. Here then is what this site has to offer:

	[ 8/3/02: some slight construction still, but the complete text is there: 107 engravings, 2 plans, 6 maps; 4 photos of my own ] George Dennis's celebrated work, Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria (1848), though only half of it is given over to Tuscany, is a very good book and even today remains one of the best possible general resources for Etruscan monuments in the area; but it's also a fascinating glimpse into the beginnings of modern archaeology — and very useful to anyone with an interest in the remoter areas of the region, as for example if you're planning to cover it on foot, horseback or bicycle.
	[ 8/3/02: 19 pages, 48 photos ] Grosseto Province: covering the city of Grosseto and a number of small towns in the Maremma Toscana.
	[ 2/17/07: 12 pages, 34 photos ] Arezzo Province: the beginning of a site, with some small pages on the capital Arezzo; Anghiari and Sansepolcro.
	Volterra is for now represented by an Encyclopedia Britannica article.

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