Abbadia San Salvatore

Abbey of Sant'Antimo

Albarese

Acquapendente


anghiari

Archipelago Toscano


Arcidosso


Arezzo


Asciano


Badia di Coltibuono


Bagni San Filippo

Bagno Vignoni

Barberino Val d'Elsa

Beaches

Bolsena Lake


Bomarzo

Brunello di Montalcino

Buonconvento

Campagnatico


Capalbio


Castel del Piano


Castelfiorentino

Castell'Azzara

Castellina in Chianti


Castelmuzio


Castelnuovo Bererdenga


Castiglioncello Bandini


Castiglione della Pescaia


Castiglione d'Orcia


Castiglion Fiorentino


Celleno


Certaldo


Chinaciano Terme


Chianti


Chiusi


Cinigiano


Città di Castello

CivitÀ di Bagnoregio


Colle Val d'Elsa


Cortona


Crete Senesi


Diaccia Botrona

Isola d'Elba

Firenze


Follonica


Gaiole in Chianti


Gavorrano

Gerfalco


Greve in Chianti


Grosseto


Lago Trasimeno


La Foce


Manciano


Maremma


Massa Marittima


Montagnola Senese


Montalcino


Monte Amiata


Monte Argentario

montecalvello

Montefalco


Montemassi


Montemerano


Monte Oliveto Maggiore


Montepulciano


Monteriggioni


Monticchiello


Monticiano


Orbetello


Orvieto


Paganico


Parco Naturale della Maremma


Perugia


Piancastagnaio


Pienza


Pisa


Pitigliano

Prato

Radda in Chianti


Roccalbegna


Roccastrada


San Bruzio


San Casciano dei Bagni


San Galgano


San Gimignano


San Giovanni d'Asso


San Quirico d'Orcia


Sansepolcro


Santa Fiora


Sant'Antimo


Sarteano


Saturnia


Scansano


Scarlino


Seggiano


Siena


Sinalunga


Sorano


Sovana


Sovicille

Talamone

Tarquinia


Tavernelle Val di Pesa


Torrita di Siena


Trequanda


Tuscania


Umbria


Val d'Elsa


Val di Merse


Val d'Orcia


Valle d'Ombrone


Vetulonia


Viterbo

Volterra




 
Walking in Tuscany
             
 
MancianoMarsiliana
Marsiliana, hamlet of Manciano[1]

 

album Surroundings
       
   

Marsiliana, hamlet of Manciano


   
   

The modern village of Marsiliana d’Albegna is in the municipality of Manciano, in the province of Grosseto. It occupies the south-eastern branch of the floodplain of the Albegna river, where the valley leaves the plains and winds into the hills. Its strategic position, overlooking one of the most important waterways of the region, and thus controlling trade and communication, together with fertile soils have favoured, since ancient times, the founding and development of numerous settlements visible in its archaeology. The oldest evidence comes from the Castle Hill, a hillock which, although modest in height, is very noticeable from the plain, being the most prominent feature in the area. The Princes of the Corsini family have had a residence, the castle, atop this hill since 1761.

In 1908, during construction work on a building to store agricultural machinery, not far from the present centre of Marsiliana, in the area called Banditella, an extensive necropolis was discovered. [2]



 
   
   


Map Marsiliana d'Albegna | Enlarge map


 

 
   

Cycling in Tuscany

Cycling tours in the Tuscan Maremma


   
14. Cuore di Maremma | The Heart of Maremma (GR5)

Grosseto (Ponte Mussolini) - Magliano in Toscana - Bivio Marsiliana - Scansano - Bivio Montiano - o Grosseto (Ponte Mussolini)

 

 

 
 




16. Poggio Foco

Manciano - Lago Scuro - Capriola - Bivio Capalbio - S.P. 67 - La Campigliola - Attraversamento S.P. 32 - S.R. 74 - Manciano

Cicloturismo in Maremma | Poggio Binetti e Lago Scuro

   
18. Sulle strade dei campioni | Along the routes of the Champions

Manciano - Pitigliano - Sorano - Sovana - San Martino sul Fiora - Saturnia - Montemerano - Scansano - Pereta - Magliano in Toscana - Marsiliana - Capalbio - La Sgrilla - Manciano

 


28. Le colline di Manciano e Capalbio | The Hills of Manciano and capalbio

Capalbio - Vallerana - Sgrillozzo - Marsiliana - Capalbio

 


         
         


[1] Foto da LigaDue,  licenziato in base ai termini della licenza Creative Commons Attribuzione 3.0 Unported.
[2] Source: Etruria Nova, MARSILIANA D’ALBEGNA THE SETTLEMENT AND THE NECROPOLIS
The activities and projects of Etruria Nova can be seen on the website www.etrurianova.org
[3] David Abulafia, The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean, Oxford University Press, USA13 okt. 2011

 


Tablet from Marsiliana d’Albegna, Etruria, seventh century BC. Probably used for teaching the alphabet, this tablet provides the earliest evidence for the importation of the archaic Greek alphabet into Etruria; the letters were written from right to left, as in Phoenician, and the alphabet contains several letters such as delta that were dropped from the Etruscan script because the sound did not exist in Etruscan speech.[3]

The earliest Estruscan abecedarium, the Marsiliana d'Albegna tablet, which dates to c. 700 VCE.