SANSEPOLCRO

(288mt above the sea level; about 15.000 inhabitants)
Situated at the foot of the last tract of the Tuscan Apennine, Sansepolcro dominates the High Tiber Valley as it opens in a vast and harmonious amphitheatre of hills. Probably of Roman origin, the town presents a serene and harmonic face. Inside its quadrilateral of protective walls it maintains the medieval appearance, with splendid Renaissance and baroque additions.

ANGHIARI

(430mt above the sea level /Inhabitants : 5900)
Anghiari is a lovely medieval town lying between two rivers, the Tiber and the Arno. Surrounded by castles and country churches Anghiari looks out over the beautiful High Tiber Valley landscape, a natural amphitheatre filled with the spirituality of St. Francis of Assisi. The countryside around Anghiari has an untouched atmosphere with ancient woods dotted with monasteries and archaeological sites.

AREZZO

( 296mt above the sea level )
Arezzo rises in one of the most beautiful zones of the Tuscany, encircled from valley, hills and woods . The Valdarno, Valdichiana, ValTiberina and Casentino great valleys extend in its province. Arezzo gets its name and its foundation by the Etruschi (IV century A.C.) and perhaps it was a centre of the 12 Lucumonie Etrusche.

MONTERCHI

(360mt above the sea level )
Monterchi is a Medieval village standing on a spot which, in Etrusco-Roman times was dedicated to the cult of Hercules (Mons Hercules). The main attraction of this village is the fresco of the "Madonna del Parto" by Piero della Francesca . This famous 15th century fresco, discovered only a century ago and recently restored, is in the Chapel of S. Maria di Momentana, near the little cemetery.

CAPRESE MICHELANGELO

(650mt above the sea level )
This is a little centre of tourism placed on a hilltop of the Tuscan Apennino, at 653mt above sea level, surrounded by an area of outstanding natural beauty, typical of the high Tevere valley. The meadowlands and sweet-chestnut woods are ideal for walking, riding or just relaxing. Caprese, however, is not just an attractive place: it is here that nature and history fuse into an integral part of great art. For it was here, in the house of his father, the Podestà /Squire), that Michelangelo Buonarroti was born in 1475, and in the tiny Church of S. Giovanni that he was baptised.

PIEVE SANTO STEFANO

(433mt above the sea level )
Pieve Santo Stefano (St.Stephen) is the first town one meets when coming down from Monte Fumaiolo where the sources of the Tiber are located. Its origins go back to the period of the Roman expansion around the year 280 B.C.

SESTINO

(700mt above the sea level / Inhabitants :1.500 )
This town rises in the valley of the high basin of the Foglia river, to the confluence of the Seminico stream, on the road of the Pass of Viamaggio. It is an agricultural centre, place of some sawmills that take advantage of the forests of the zone. The territory of the Commune extends for a wide space comprising various villages , one of them is S. Donato, with an ancient nice church . Sestino is ancient much and was inhabited in roman age (Sestinus), like various archaeological remains testify.

BADIA TEDALDA

(799mt above the sea level/ Inhabitants: 1400)
Badia (Abbey) Tedalda is a small centre that rises at 799mt above the sea level along the road that connects the Romagna to the Tuscany. The Comune counts 1394 inhabitants. One says that in the mounts that encircle Badia Tedalda a certain Guido Monaco gave to the world seven miraculous notes. Today Badia Tedalda can be defined an angle of intact paradise where the people cordiality hospitality, and the air and the tastes of a typical Tuscan kitchen, can make living again, old feelings by now forgotten.

CITTA' DI CASTELLO

Tifernum, originally a very ancient Umbrian centre in the Upper Tiber Valley, after conquest by the Romans, became towards the end of the 1st century a rich and flourishing Municipium named Tifernum Tiberinum. A powerful patron, Plinio il Giovane , adorned it with fine temples and public buildings. Artists of great renown, such as Signorelli and Raphael, to name but the greatest, worked at length in Città di Castello where they created some of their most significant paintings. The town then fell under Papal sway until 1860, when it was liberated by Piemontesi troops and annexed to the Kingdom of Italy.