Holiday home in Tuscany
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VILLA ELENA ***
Toscana - Riviera degli Etruschi
I - 56040 Guardistallo (Pisa)
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Holiday home in Tuscany Villa Elena: welcome
With the first Age of the Iron it was diffused in Tuscany, from the sec. XI to the VIII to. C., the civilization villanoviana, whose more important (Vetulonia, Populonia, Knoll of the Guerruccia near Volterra, Knoll Renzo near Closed) necropolises correspond etrusca to the centers of the following civilization. The places archaeologically more notable etrusches are Populonia, that has given necropolis with room graves rich in bronzes; Vetulonia, with graves to tumult and with circles of stone, material of oriental importation, archaic sculptures of stone; Closed, with the characteristic his/her archaic canopis and his/her buccheris and, later, room painted graves and finally sarcofagi and embossed urns; Volterra, with his/her boundaries, the necropolises, the characteristic urnettes of alabaster that actually continued also in Roman age to the sec. II-THE TO. C. Great graves to tholos of the sec. There are also in the Etruria it interns (Cortona, Quinto Fiorentino, Castellina in Chianti); to Marsiliana of Albegna graves have been found to circle with exceptional ivories and oreficerie orientalizzanti; to Knoll Civitate near Murlo (Siena) a sanctuary of the sec is dug. YOU TO. C. with figured terrecotte. From Arezzo the two great bronzes of the Chimera and Minerva come, from Cortona the rich chandelier, other smaller bronzes, of various epoch, from other places (Brolio, Mountain Falterona etc.). Less important but numerous they are the rests of Roman art, whose more original demonstration is that of the ceramic aretina. Notable they are the rests of Thing (polygonal boundaries, hole with his/her monuments) and Gnawed her (I perforate with basilica and other buildings group of imperial portraits); besides the theater and the temple of Fiesole, the beautiful theater of Volterra, the boundaries sillane of Closed, the amphitheaters of Lucca and Arezzo. Numerous they were the luxurious villas of which leftovers stay along the coasts tirreniche (outskirts of Thing, Talamone, Populonia, Cecina, Massaciuccoli) and on the islands (Elba, Pianosa, Giannutri, Lily).
Examples of theater in vernacular were had in Pisa, Siena and Livorno, but they remained in the provincial circle. A certain relief had the Florentine theater instead and from the end of the Seven hundred one it dominated the mask of Stenterello, put to the center of grungy canvases drawn by the repertoire arlecchinesco or botched by scripts of everything other origin. The idea of a theater in vernacular was object of polemics and fiercely opposed. It modified the situation, in 1908, the first representation of the water quiets down than To. Bridegrooms, recited by a company hinged above To. Niccoli and on his/her/their wife G. Landini. They owes the fortunate preparations of the other numerous texts of Bridegrooms to this formation (old Hen, The ascension, You dome etc.). Subsequently the most dignified level of the first shows was not reached anymore. The companies Florentine survivors develop an activity of local interest.
A complex of beliefs and superstitions survive in the region, you testify, for example, from numerous proverbs that foresee the good one or the bad fate prognosticated through the interpretation, according to traditional schemes, of natural facts or straight banal, or from the sporadic survival of fit rites to discover and to exorcize the hex. Popular literature is rich of fables and legends that, beginning from the sec. XIX, has found in studious as G. Pitré, V. Imbriani, I. Nieri and G. Nerucci makes an attempt collectors and illustrators. Among the diffused tied up parties to the cycle of the year they were to Calendimaggio the celebrations inspired to the spring: the evening of the eve intrigued of boys and girls (maggiaiuoli) they went to the houses of the engaged girls and they received gifts: Mays had called the songs tuned up by the party, maio the tasseled fresh branch brought by a youth that it preceded the others, while you are coppering smaller you/they were offered to the most beautiful girls.
With the first Age of the Iron it was diffused in Tuscany, from the sec. XI to the VIII to. C., the civilization villanoviana, whose more important (Vetulonia, Populonia, Knoll of the Guerruccia near Volterra, Knoll Renzo near Closed) necropolises correspond etrusca to the centers of the following civilization. The places archaeologically more notable etrusches are Populonia, that has given necropolis with room graves rich in bronzes; Vetulonia, with graves to tumult and with circles of stone, material of oriental importation, archaic sculptures of stone; Closed, with the characteristic his/her archaic canopis and his/her buccheris and, later, room painted graves and finally sarcofagi and embossed urns; Volterra, with his/her boundaries, the necropolises, the characteristic urnettes of alabaster that actually continued also in Roman age to the sec. II-THE TO. C. Great graves to tholos of the sec. There are also in the Etruria it interns (Cortona, Quinto Fiorentino, Castellina in Chianti); to Marsiliana of Albegna graves have been found to circle with exceptional ivories and oreficerie orientalizzanti; to Knoll Civitate near Murlo (Siena) a sanctuary of the sec is dug. YOU TO. C. with figured terrecotte. From Arezzo the two great bronzes of the Chimera and Minerva come, from Cortona the rich chandelier, other smaller bronzes, of various epoch, from other places (Brolio, Mountain Falterona etc.). Less important but numerous they are the rests of Roman art, whose more original demonstration is that of the ceramic aretina. Notable they are the rests of Thing (polygonal boundaries, hole with his/her monuments) and Gnawed her (I perforate with basilica and other buildings group of imperial portraits); besides the theater and the temple of Fiesole, the beautiful theater of Volterra, the boundaries sillane of Closed, the amphitheaters of Lucca and Arezzo. Numerous they were the luxurious villas of which leftovers stay along the coasts tirreniche (outskirts of Thing, Talamone, Populonia, Cecina, Massaciuccoli) and on the islands (Elba, Pianosa, Giannutri, Lily).
Examples of theater in vernacular were had in Pisa, Siena and Livorno, but they remained in the provincial circle. A certain relief had the Florentine theater instead and from the end of the Seven hundred one it dominated the mask of Stenterello, put to the center of grungy canvases drawn by the repertoire arlecchinesco or botched by scripts of everything other origin. The idea of a theater in vernacular was object of polemics and fiercely opposed. It modified the situation, in 1908, the first representation of the water quiets down than To. Bridegrooms, recited by a company hinged above To. Niccoli and on his/her/their wife G. Landini. They owes the fortunate preparations of the other numerous texts of Bridegrooms to this formation (old Hen, The ascension, You dome etc.). Subsequently the most dignified level of the first shows was not reached anymore. The companies Florentine survivors develop an activity of local interest.
A complex of beliefs and superstitions survive in the region, you testify, for example, from numerous proverbs that foresee the good one or the bad fate prognosticated through the interpretation, according to traditional schemes, of natural facts or straight banal, or from the sporadic survival of fit rites to discover and to exorcize the hex. Popular literature is rich of fables and legends that, beginning from the sec. XIX, has found in studious as G. Pitré, V. Imbriani, I. Nieri and G. Nerucci makes an attempt collectors and illustrators. Among the diffused tied up parties to the cycle of the year they were to Calendimaggio the celebrations inspired to the spring: the evening of the eve intrigued of boys and girls (maggiaiuoli) they went to the houses of the engaged girls and they received gifts: Mays had called the songs tuned up by the party, maio the tasseled fresh branch brought by a youth that it preceded the others, while you are coppering smaller you/they were offered to the most beautiful girls.