Volterra
Volterra is a beautiful walled city in Tuscany, Italy built on the top of a hill. The town is built over one of the Twelve Cities of the ancient Etruscan civilisation and has some of the original gates from that era still standing along with a dedicated museum packed with Etruscan and Roman relics.
- Type: Town with 9,970 residents
- Description: Italian comune
- Also known as: “Mint of Volaterrae”
- Neighbors: Colle di Val d’Elsa and San Gimignano
Places of Interest
Highlights: Museo Etrusco Guarnacci and Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption of Saint Mary.
Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption of Saint Mary
Church
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Roncolla and Montebradoni.
Saline di Volterra
Village
Volterra
- Categories: comune of Italy and locality
- Location: Pisa, Tuscany, Central Italy, Italy, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
43.4003° or 43° 24′ 1″ north
Longitude
10.86° or 10° 51′ 36″ east
Population
9,970
Elevation
531 metres (1,742 feet)
Open location code
8FMGCV26+42
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Wu Chinese—“Volterra” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Volterra”
- Arabic: “فولتيرا”
- Aragonese: “Volterra”
- Armenian: “Վոլտերա”
- Azerbaijani: “Volterra”
- Basque: “Volterra”
- Belarusian: “Вальтэра”
- Breton: “Volterra”
- Bulgarian: “Волтера”
- Catalan: “Volterra”
- Cebuano: “Volterra”
- Central Bikol: “Volterra”
- Chechen: “Вольтерра”
- Chinese: “沃尔泰拉”
- Corsican: “Volterra”
- Corsican: “Vutera”
- Croatian: “Volterra”
- Czech: “Volterra”
- Danish: “Volterra”
- Dutch: “Volterra”
- Egyptian Arabic: “فولتيرا”
- Esperanto: “Volterra”
- Estonian: “Volterra”
- Finnish: “Volterra”
- French: “Volterra”
- German: “Volterra”
- Greek: “Βολτέρρα”
- Hebrew: “וולטרה”
- Hungarian: “Volterra”
- Indonesian: “Volterra”
- Interlingua: “Volterra”
- Irish: “Volterra”
- Italian: “Volterra”
- Japanese: “ヴォルテッラ”
- Kazakh: “Вольтерра”
- Korean: “볼테라”
- Kurdish: “Volterra”
- Ladin: “Volterra”
- Latin: “Volaterrae”
- Latvian: “Volterra”
- Lithuanian: “Voltera”
- Lombard: “Volterra”
- Luxembourgish: “Volterra”
- Malay: “Volterra”
- Marathi: “व्होल्तेरा”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Volterra”
- Neapolitan: “Volterra”
- Neapolitan: “Vulterra”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Volterra”
- Norwegian: “Volterra”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Volterra”
- Persian: “ولترا”
- Piemontese: “Volterra”
- Polish: “Volterra”
- Portuguese: “Volterra”
- Romanian: “Volterra”
- Russian: “Вольтерра”
- Scots: “Volterra”
- Serbian: “Volterra”
- Serbian: “Волтера”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Volterra”
- Sicilian: “Volterra”
- Silesian: “Volterra”
- Slovenian: “Volterra”
- South Azerbaijani: “ولترا”
- Spanish: “Volterra”
- Swedish: “Volterra”
- Tagalog: “Volterra”
- Tatar: “Вольтерра”
- Turkish: “Volterra”
- Ukrainian: “Вольтерра”
- Urdu: “وولتیرا”
- Venetian: “Voltera”
- Vietnamese: “Volterra, Ý”
- Vietnamese: “Volterra”
- Volapük: “Volterra”
- Waray (Philippines): “Volterra”
- Welsh: “Volterra”
- Western Frisian: “Volterra”
- Wu Chinese: “沃尔泰拉”
- “Volterra”
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Places to explore: Il Cipresso and Ex ospedale psichiatrico di Volterra.
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