Volterra Fair

Every year on 19th September, Volterra hosts the town fair. Stalls of various kinds will be set up in Piazza dei Priori, Piazza San Giovanni and Via Roma.

This is an opportunity to visit Volterra, which has a museum system of considerable artistic interest. Its name derives from the Etruscan Velathri.

As early as the 7th century B.C., the Etruscans founded an important settlement, which assumed the size and power of a city-state, the seat of the Lucumone (the supreme magistrate of Etruscan cities), equipped with a powerful ring of walls more than 7 km long.