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A powerful tower commands Montecatini
Val di Cecina and the surrounding lands. It was the ancient
dwelling the Belforti. The village at its bottom has the typical
features of a Medieval centre built
around the politic and religious palaces: praetorian palace with
its fine portico, and the S. Biagio church
of the XIV c. The hilly landscape that goes around Montecatini offers
wonderful views, with woods
plenty of game and really fascinating urban settlements.
Among these, there is the Castle of Querceto,
surrounded by charming woods. It shows the peculiar features of
a Medieval villages set round the parish church
of S. John. The village of La Sassa,
set on a hill that commands the whole landscape, has kept its ancient
gathered structure round the tower and church
of St. Matthew.
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