Location: Pitigliano
Top Things to do in Pitigliano
The 10 Best Sights & Landmarks in Pitigliano, Tuscany
Pitigliano is a town in the province of Grosseto, located about 80 kilometres (50 mi) south-east of the city of Grosseto, in Italy. The municipality covers an area of 102.89 square kilometres (39.73 sq mi) and has 3,971 inhabitants, with a density of 39 inhabitants per square kilometre.
Restaurants in Pitigliano
1. Antico Ghetto e Sinagoga Pitigliano
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4.5 based on 705 reviews
Reviewed By jethrop804
A truly unique experience, wandering through the underground chambers that once made up part of the Jewish ghetto - present since renaissance times, and ending with the fabulously restored synagogue. Good signs in English explaining various Jewish rituals, holidays and traditions, but most of them a bit generic - more interpretation could be added that is specific to Pitigliano and the history of its Jewish population, the persecution and racial laws, the role of the local Catholic community hiding people during fascism, etc.
2. Vie Cave Etrusche
3. Pitigliano Centro Storico
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4.5 based on 1,378 reviews
Reviewed By v0gue - Boonah, Australia
So hard to describe this town clinging to the cliff face of the tuffaceous rock,there are just so many lane & viccolos to explore a photographers heaven. This is a town not to be missed although it is steep the historical centre is an easy walk
4. Chiesa di Santa Maria e San Rocco
5. Acquedotto Mediceo di Pitigliano
6. Museo di Palazzo Orsini
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4.0 based on 263 reviews
The palace-fortress of the Counts Orsini is one of the most fascinating architecture of the whole southern Tuscany. Born in 1100 as a fortress of the Aldobrandeschi, passed to the Orsini family in 1313. At the end of 1700, owned by the Medici and Lorraine, became the residence of the Bishop of Sovana and then the seat of the central offices of the Diocese.The structure of the building tells centuries of history of the noble families who built and inhabited: the high tower of the keep, the elegant Renaissance inner square, the frescoed rooms newly restored, with portraits of the Orsini and the zodiac symbols are of great historical, cultural and artistic attraction.Since 1989, much of the building was converted into a museum collection of art from both the building itself that the parishes of the Diocese of Pitigliano-Sovana-Orbetello fifteenth and sixteenth century frescoes, tables and paintings of famous authors, including Guidoccio Cozzarelli, Jerome Welcome, Francesco Zuccarelli; wooden statue of the Madonna and Child by Jacopo della Quercia and interesting furnishings for liturgical worship.
