PRESENTATION
Shortly before the great content Lajatico, Andrea Bocelli, the world to launch her solo singing from the valley enclosed by steep hills of immortal Volterra, a powered hang glider, almost a toy and] instead able to fly with two people on board, the sky gleamed across the "Theatre of Silence." Where once a year thousands of spectators gather to see and be whisked away by the city's most famous and the voice of the Era. At the controls of his hand gliding, Piero Alice. And in the back seat, excited because happy, the author of these notes. Since that flight gave rise to the images of the "Theatre of Silence" that the reader will find in the pages dedicated to Lajatico, which divides the town and at the same time combining Era and Volterra. For Alice Pontedera, pilot delight of "ultralight" and now singer of Valdera top view, that flight was not, was not, but one of many. A lot, and all accompanied by a camera, has become one with the airplane.
aerial images of the Era, the valley that leads down from Volterra along the Arno river-stream which was called the Etruscans, they were taken even before. Including those, more tragic, framed by American and German bombers during the events of the '44 war. But a panel of images so rich, beautiful and full, had not yet been submitted. It is therefore a great honor and great gift to all the Era, but also to anyone in the world know or would like to know this lovely part of Tuscany, that of the pilot-photographer. An amateur's heart and now even in experience, which has overcome even the professional photographers.
This book presents about 350 images, many of which are wonderful because the subject is lying it beautiful, others because they are important to know, for example, the new major roads of the lower Era, or the boom of small and medium-sized companies that characterizes the new areas industrial, or Ancra new urban settlements grew on the outskirts of the capital and the vice capital of the Era, and Ponsacco Pontedera. Even Calcinaia, on the other side of the Arno, towards the mountains of Pisa, made co. important in terms of industrial and urban development, including building restoration of a historic monastery, and the launch of a tourism lake, created by the excavations. But talk too much about this or that wrong image to the other. Nothing in this book, it is classified as "ugly", but, rather, "service" for the discovery of the new Era. While the old, or restored from the old, is beautiful on its own.
The Etruscans were the first people that the transition from prehistory to history has seen and recorded in Era. The Etruscans in Volterra, of course, that was important in the Era hinterland and just as important a way of connecting to the Arno and the plain of Pisa. Then came the Romans with their allocations of land to the legionaries - traces of centuries are still clearly visible - then the Lombards with their castles, like Alice, a beautiful photograph shows residence in its new phase in history. After Mille, Era also has long been disputed between Volterra, Pisa and Florence with feats of arms and continuous change of heart just as sensational. Ponsacco died in the siege of Henry VII, the last emperor who wanted to restore a reality by the time and outdated by the liberal com and then worships.
Thus, the Medici pax. In truth, very little loved by Volterra because it marked a bloody sack against him and the end of the millennial his freedom. The Grand Duchy of Tuscany reforms also brought here came here and slept Garibaldi, remember a plaque on Piazzone of Pontedera, the square of injury of the valley. Even by Era 800 and 900 migrants departed soldiers and for the (world wars, the second meter of fought in this valley.
We are now in the third millennium of the Christian era, with the novelty of the discovery also tourist Era - arrived True, after the Chianti, the Valdicecina, Valdorcia or the Garfagnana, but finally arrived - and businesses and factories still fighting their battle with the ardor of all time, but now that "against" globalization and the prices that come from 'East.
All this is behind the photos that he took from Alice Piero, flying with his hang glider, and this book shows. Thank you, Peter, thanks for all the hundred thousand citizens of the Era, and thousands of friends, visitors and admirers. Mario Mannucci
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