Montepulciano is a medieval and Renaissance hill town and comune in the Italian province of Siena in southern Tuscany.
Population: 3,446
Latitude: 43° 05' 59.93" N
Longitude: 11° 47' 13.34" E
The Battle of Lake Trasimene (June 24, 217 BC, April on the Julian calendar) was a major battle in the Second Punic War. The Carthaginians under Hannibal defeated the Romans under the consul Gaius Flaminius. Hannibal’s victory over the Roman army at…
The Val d’Orcia, or Valdorcia, is a region of Tuscany, central Italy, which extends from the hills south of Siena to Monte Amiata. It is characterised by gentle, carefully cultivated hills occasionally broken by gullies and by picturesque towns and …
Lake Trasimeno (Italian: Lago Trasimeno, Italian pronunciation: [ˌlaːɡo traziˈmɛːno]; Latin: Trasumennus; Etruscan Tarśmina), also referred to as Trasimene or Thrasimene in English, is a lake in Italy, in the province of Perugia, in the Umbria regio…
The Accona Desert (Italian: Deserto di Accona) is a semi-arid area in Tuscany, Italy, in the center of the so-called Crete senesi, in the west and the south of the comune of Asciano.
The Crete Senesi refers to an area of the Italian region of Tuscany to the south of Siena.
The Abbey of Sant'Antimo, Italian: Abbazia di Sant'Antimo, is a former Benedictine monastery in the comune of Montalcino, Tuscany, central Italy. It is approximately 10 km from Montalcino about 9 km from the Via Francigena, the pilgrim route to Rome…
The Val di Chiana, Valdichiana, or Chiana Valley is an alluvial valley of central Italy, lying on the territories of the provinces of Arezzo and Siena in Tuscany and the provinces of Perugia and Terni in Umbria.
The Abbey of Monte Oliveto Maggiore is a large Benedictine monastery in the Italian region of Tuscany, 10 km south of Asciano.
Bagni San Filippo is a fraction of the municipality of Castiglione d'Orcia in the Province of Siena, Italy, not far from Monte Amiata. It is a hot spring, small and has the presence of calcium deposits, which form white concretions of calcium carbon…
The Arbia is a torrent in Tuscany, central Italy, an affluence of the Ombrone river. Its source is located in the comune of Castellina in Chianti, at 620 m of altitude.
Isola Minore, known until the twentieth century simply as l'isoletta (‘the little island’), is the smallest of the three islands of Lago Trasimeno in central Italy, and the closest to Passignano sul Trasimeno within whose municipal boundaries it lie…
Camucia is a small town in Tuscany in central Italy. It is a frazione of Cortona.
Bettolle is a frazione of Sinalunga, in the province of Siena, Tuscany, Italy.
Lago di Montepulciano is a lake in the Province of Siena, Tuscany, Italy.
Lago di Montedoglio is an artificial lake in the Province of Arezzo, Tuscany, Italy.
Lago di Chiusi is a lake in the Province of Siena, Tuscany, Italy.
Scrofiano is a village in Tuscany, central Italy, a frazione of the comune of Sinalunga in the province of Siena.