Villa Palagione is located some seven kilometres east of the 3,000-year-old cultural centre of Volterra. Shaped by Etruscan, Roman and Mediaeval influences.

Today, Volterra presents an almost entirely mediaeval appearance. There are the market place with the oldest town hall in Tuscany, later used as the model for the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, the narrow, shady alleys with their "beheaded" tower houses and the palaces with plain facades concealing enormous, magnificent interiors.

Volterra gives us a visible cross-section through the 3,000-year development of a city which is still important today. In this ancient town, the past lives on in the very stones. Volterra is still an active, dynamic city today which bears witness to past cultural ages with a wealth of visible reminders.

The area around Volterra is both geographically and geologically interesting, with rich mineral and geothermal resources. The Etruscans supplied all of Europe with metals from this region, using these riches to establish a highly advanced civilisation.

VILLA PALAGIONE ....in the heart of the Tuscany- culture landscape Its treasures and its beauty stimulates the senses. Here, everything seems special. The soft, warm light of the southern sun flatters the picturesque, natural landscape. Gentle valleys and hills are filled with cypresses, steep mountains crowned with mediaeval forts and romantic settlements.

A unique composition makes up Tuscany's special attraction - the magic of ancient, mystical places and the visible and palpable culture and history of this region. Thousands of years of European development that attracted and produced many great artists and thinkers are on display here as if in a huge open-air museum. The works that architects, sculptors, philosophers, painters and physicists alone have left behind here take your breath away. In this fascinating atmosphere, you can practically breathe in nature, history and culture. And Villa Palagione lies in the centre of this fascinating landscape.