A Walk through the historical  center

You can go to the higher part of Cetona walking through Via Roma: on the right you find the "Torre del Rivellino" (the Rivellino Tower). On the left there is a cellar where it is possible to taste wine, good cheese and salami. At the top of the climb, on the left, you find the Town Hall (Palazzo Minutelli-Cioli). On the ground floor there is the "Museo Civico per la Preistoria del Monte Cetona" (the Municipal Museum of  the Mount Cetona Prehistory): it shows the different periods of the human settlement from the middle Paleolith to the end of the Bronze Age. The most part of the findings come from the Belverde area. Panels, cards, dioramas and plastic models give explanations about the exhibited archeologic material.Going on you find the little square of the Collegiata (Collegiate Church) with its old cistern well. (From there it is possible to see the room of the Castle Guardroom - private property - and the statue of the Madonna fixed on the rocks.) Then you pass under the Brugi arch: at the fork turn to the right (Via della Steccato) for a wonderful view of Mount Cetona and the countryside. When you are back at the fork, you can go uphill through the "costa del Prete" (the priest's slope) and then turn to the left: Via della Fortezza you reach a terrace dominating the Collegiata square (now you have the Castle Guardroom behind you). There are some benches: stop there and look at the wonderful landscape. From there you go to the "Cittadella" (citadel), another panoramic terrace.The yellow building you see is the Villa della Vagnola or Parco Terrosi (visits allowed only in some periods of the year - in its gardens some monuments testify Garibaldi's stay and the birth of famous Cetonese people, such Luca Contile. There is also an Etruscan tomb coming from the Chiusi territory.) The gate behind you is the entrance of the Rocca (the castle, private property). The visit to Cetona is finished: you can come back to Piazza Garibaldi walking down through Via G. Marconi or going downstairs through Via Volpini (you are in Via Roma again, so turn to the right). If you want more information about Cetona, you can read a little book entitled "Cetona - Un viaggio nel tempo" sold at the Tourist Office.

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