Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
History
Tuscan history is an opera that quietly opens with the wine-loving Etruscans around
the 9th century BC, staccatos with feisty clashes between medieval city-states, and
crescendos with Florence's powerful Medici dynasty and the birth of the Renaissance.
To this day, it is the Renaissance with its extraordinary art and architecture that
defines the region's largest city and remains the region's greatest period; Tuscany has
not been at the cusp of such momentous change since.
Learn to speak Etruscan at Etruscology:
www.etruskisch.de/pgs/vc.html
. Favourite words:
netshvis
(a fortune teller who reads animal entrails) and
thuta
(which can mean either 'chaste' or 'only
married once').
