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Volterra
Velathri therefore came called the city when it
has been founded from the Etruscan in the WAYS century
a.C., had a building perimeter of beyond seven
kilometres leaving presupposing the students who beyond
to the city, inside were also of lands cultivate to you.
This last, they were not other that rising of food
supply in the periods in which there were of you besiege
much long. The city acquired with the years much
importance much to become one of the twelve lucomonie of
the Etruscan nation. Its territory was much extending
from the Hung river arrived until the Tyrrhenian one and
from the Arno it succeeded in to catch up goes it them
of the river Cornia, this wide territory
therefore divenne an optimal strategic base. The
economic aspect of this territory is changed in the
years, in fact a time the only source of commerce was
the extraction of copper, alum, the alabaster and of it
knows them, that then they came consequently works to
you in the volterrane manufactures. Today some of
these activities remain like tradition, as an example
the small artisan companies that work the alabaster, but
many are also the innovations, therefore the first
industries of metal and mechanics and those of
chemistry. Tutt' today of the first sources of yield of
the country is sure the tourism, attracted not only from
the millenarian history of the same city, but also for
the three museali buildings that are found in it.
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