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Montecatini Val di Cecina is a small hilltown and comune in the province of Pisa in Tuscany (central Italy ). Located approximatively 60 km south of Pisa , the medieval town sits on the Poggio la Croce hill overlooking the Cecina Valley and the larger hilltown of Volterra , which lies just 15 km away.

Inside the village walls, which feature cylindrical towers around the perimeter, medieval buildings are tightly spaced, separated by narrow streets or alleys, and a few small piazzas. The town is dominated by Belforti tower.

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Montecatini Val di Cecina is a small hilltown and comune in the province of Pisa in Tuscany (central Italy ). Located approximatively 60 km south of Pisa , the medieval town sits on the Poggio la Croce hill overlooking the Cecina Valley and the larger hilltown of Volterra , which lies just 15 km away.

Inside the village walls, which feature cylindrical towers around the perimeter, medieval buildings are tightly spaced, separated by narrow streets or alleys, and a few small piazzas. The town is dominated by Belforti tower.

Other buildings include the Palazzo Pretorio, with an elegant porch that runs underneath a cross-ribbed vaulted roof supported by six Ionian columns, and the Chiesa San Biagio, built in the Romanesque - Gothic style during the 14th Century. The church has an asymmetrical shape with a very plain portal facing a side street. The church is divided by a central nave with two side aisles separated by columns.

In the nearby is the frazione (village) of Castel Querceto, with the Romanesque parish church Chiesa San Giovanni.

Also on a hill, and also possessed of a fortified tower that offers a commanding view of the country stretching toward Volterra and the Tyrrhenian Sea, is the village of La Sassa. An old copper mine sits between two other very old villages, Casaglia and Gello.