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The Best Attractions In Calci

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Calci is a comune in the Province of Pisa in the Italian region Tuscany, located about 60 kilometres west of Florence and about 9 kilometres east of Pisa. The main settlement is the frazione of La Pieve, while the rest of the population is distributed between other hamlets. Its main attraction is Pisa Charterhouse, also known as Calci Charterhouse , which houses a natural history museum of the University of Pisa.
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  • 2. Museo di Storia Naturale e del Territorio Calci
    The Natural History Museum of the University of Pisa is an Italian natural history museum at Pisa. It is part of the University of Pisa and is now located in Pisa Charterhouse 10 km from the city of Pisa in the comune of Calci. In 1596, Grand Duke Ferdinand I of Tuscany established the Museum of Natural History of the University of Pisa, transferring specimens from the Florentine palaces of the Medici, particularly from the Uffizi. This was expanded to serve the natural history faculties of the University of Pisa. Initially, the gallery was in the botanic gardens . The oldest collections in the museum are Niccolò Gualtieri’s shells. (In 1814, the Botanic Garden was separated from the Natural History Museum and in 1827, Paolo Savi, assembled more than five thousand zoological specimens w...
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  • 8. Certosa di Pisa Calci
    Pisa Charterhouse, also known as Calci Charterhouse , is a former Carthusian monastery, or charterhouse, currently the home of the Museo di storia naturale e del territorio dell'Università di Pisa , located in the comune of Calci, some 10 km outside Pisa, Tuscany, Italy. The monastery is noted for the fresco of the Last Supper, by Bernardino Poccetti , in the refectory.
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  • 9. Vernazza Vernazza
    Vernazza is a town and comune located in the province of La Spezia, Liguria, northwestern Italy. It is one of the five towns that make up the Cinque Terre region. Vernazza is the fourth town heading north, has no car traffic, and remains one of the truest fishing villages on the Italian Riviera. It is the only natural port of Cinque Terre and is famous for its elegant houses.Vernazza's name is derived from the Latin adjective verna, meaning native. The aptly named indigenous wine, vernaccia , helped give birth to the village's moniker.
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  • 10. Museo Ferrari Maranello
    Museo Ferrari is a Ferrari company museum dedicated to the Ferrari sports car marque. The museum is not purely for cars; also on view are trophies, photographs and other historical objects relating to the Italian motor racing industry. The exhibition also introduces technological innovations, some of which had made the transition from racing cars to road cars. It is located just 300 m from the Ferrari factory in Ferrari's home town of Maranello, near Modena, Italy. The museum first opened in February 1990, with a new wing being added in October 2004. Ferrari itself has run the museum since 1995. The total surface area is now 2,500 square metres. The number of annual visitors to the museum is around 180,000.The exhibits are mostly a combination of Ferrari road and track cars. Many of Ferrar...
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  • 11. Portovenere Porto Venere
    Porto Venere is a town and comune located on the Ligurian coast of Italy in the province of La Spezia. It comprises the three villages of Fezzano, Le Grazie and Porto Venere, and the three islands of Palmaria, Tino and Tinetto. In 1997 Porto Venere and the villages of Cinque Terre were designated by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site.
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  • 13. Castello di Verrazzano Greve In Chianti
    Greve in Chianti is a town and comune in the Metropolitan City of Florence, Tuscany, Italy. It is located about 31 kilometres south of Florence and 42 kilometres north of Siena. Sitting in the Val di Greve, it is named for the small, fast-flowing river that runs through it, is the principal town in the Chianti wine district which stretches south of Florence to just north of Siena. Until recently it has been a quiet, almost bucolic town because it was, and still is, well off the main roads. Even in ancient days Greve was not isolated because it was well-connected by secondary roads to the Via Volterrana and via Francigena. Nowadays, it is connected to the A1 superstrada between Florence and Rome and the main road between Florence and Siena. The old road network ensured easy access to Floren...
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