What to See in Pitigliano, the Little Tuscan Jerusalem

L’ancient village of Pitigliano, founded by the Romans, is perched on a tuff cliff, offering a particularly suggestive view at night, when illuminated from below the cliff upwards, it seems to be suspended in nothingness. Pitigliano where it is located. Pitigliano is located in Tuscany, in the Maremma area, in the province of Grosseto. It has about 3800 inhabitants.

What to see in Pitigliano

Pitigliano small Jerusalem. Pitigliano is nicknamed the small Jerusalem, due to the presence of a small Jewish community since the 16th century and a synagogue from the 1500s within the historic center. Also from the sixteenth century are the Cathedral of Saint Peter and Paul and the Church of Santa Maria and San Rocco. From the 13th century, instead, is the deconsecrated church of Sant’Antonio, now used for civil purposes.

The Orsini Palace, noble family that ruled Pitigliano until the 1600s, when it was handed over to the Medici, was built on the remains of a Franciscan convent and today houses the Diocesan Museum. The museum exhibits silverware and goldsmith works, coins, wooden sculptures, paintings on panel and canvas, precious textiles, stone materials, manuscripts and ancient books. It preserves the 15th-century ceilings and decorations of the Orsini Palace. Inside the courtyard, there is a characteristic Renaissance-era well. Outside the walls, characterized by the vaults of the ancient aqueduct of Pitigliano, nearby there are the Shrine of Our Lady of Graces and the Convent of San Francesco.

Pitigliano to see. South of Pitigliano to see is the open-air museum “Alberto Manzi”, a journey through art and nature, dedicated to the writer, educator and television host of the RAI program “It’s never too late”.