WHAT IS THE AMIATA.

The Amiata is a montainous and hill area located in the south of the Tuscany, to horse between the provinces of Siena and Grosseto.
Monte Amiata (1.738 meters s.l.m.), ancient volcano that gives the name to the area, constitutes the apex of a montainous articolated massive, comprising Monte Labbro (1.193 meters s.l.m.), Monte Buceto (1.152 meters s.l.m.), Monte Civitella (1.107 meters s.l.m.) and the Monte Penna (1.087 meters s.l.m.).

The water courses and the water sources
The main water courses is the Fiora, that it is born in the pressed ones of the inhabited center of Santa Fiora, the Albegna river, that it is born from the western depositor of Monte Labbro, the torrent Paglia, which to east it divides massive amiatino from the Hill of Radicofani (the 896 meters s.l.m.) and the Orcia river.
Between the 600 and 800 meters s.l.m. of Monte Amiata, in correspondence of contact wrap between the impermeable base of the clay and dominating trachite cliffs of volcanic origin, finds the line of sources, that it has conditioned the breakup of the human takeovers, determining the wrapping birth and the development of a system of inhabited centers the mountain to like a crown. These sources today feed the main aqueducts of the province of Siena, Grosseto and Viterbo.

The Climate
The climate has continental character, with medium rainfall of 1,150 mm/year, that it exceeds the 1.400 mm/year to the more elevated quotas; the medium temperatures are gone around around to the 12.5 °C, with absolute minimums that come down to -18 °C and maximums that touch the 33 °C. The presence of the sea at a relative distance (approximately 50 km in air line) above all influences the western depositor of the mountain, turned towards the coast. To more elevated quotas, between the months of December and March, is usually present the snow.

The vegetation
The area introduces one immense forest cover, with chestnut tree and beech forests: the chestnut tree forests, whom find optimal conditions on volcanic cliffs, they are pushed until the quota 1,000-1,100 meters s.l.m., beyond which they are replaced from the beech forests. Nearly all the lands above the 800-1.000 meters s.l.m. are public communal property or of public company or of civic use.

The Landscape
The landscape denotes differentiated characteristics, in dependency of the combination between the various geologic, altimetriche, clivometriche, idrologiche, climatic, espositive members natural (, etc.) and the participation of the man. It's possible therefore to at least distinguish six great areas with distinguished morphologic characters:

• Il Monte Amiata (the "The Mountain", with the forests of beech and chestnut tree);
• the valleys of the screw and the olive tree;
• the Monte Labro;
• the Southeasterner dorsal of Monte Civitella;
• the valleys and the hills of the Albegna and the Fiora;
• the valley of the Orcia and the valley of the Paglia, uniforms from the Hill of Radicofani.

The Mountain Amiata's Mountain Community.

In the Grosseto depositor of Monte Amiata operates the The Mountain Amiata's Mountain Community, within whose administrative borders fall back 8 Town Council:

• Arcidosso
• Castel del Piano
• Castell' Azzara
• Cinigiano
• Roccalbegna
• Santa Fiora
• Semproniano
• Seggiano

for a surface of 530 km squares, in which live approximately xxxxxx persons.

While the last decades have recorded a fort demographic decrease, had to the arranged crisis of the agricultural field and that extractive one, in the last years the population seems to have caught up one substantial stability, with phenomena limited, but meaningful, of return and immigration.

HOW TO CATCH UP THE MOUNTAIN AMIATA.

BY TRAIN

1. Doing port of call to the stations of Grosseto and Chiusi (on the main lines Pisa-Grosseto-Roma and Firenze-Roma or of Civitella Paganico, S. Angelo, Monte Amiata, Torrenieri, Buonconvento and Siena (on the secondary lines) continuing then in bus.

BY ROAD

• With public means
  By means of the public service of bus, with frequent connections on the guiding ones for Roma, Siena, Firenze and Grosseto. In the months of great tourist affluence, summery and winter, they come activated special services of connection with the mountain.
  
  
• With private means
  from the West, Nord-Ovest and South-Ovest
  
  1. through State n. the 223, Expressway Grosseto-Siena, feeding to Paganico the Provincial one of the Cipressino;
  2. Through State n. the 323, with 74 distance S.S. n. c/o Albinia-Scansano- Roccalbegna-Arcidosso-Casteldelpiano-Seggiano-Castiglion d' Orcia.

  
  da East, the Northeast and South-Est
  

  1. through State n. the 2 Cassia,
     with distributions for Campiglia d'Orcia, Radicofani, Abbadia S. Salvatore, Piancastagnaio, Castell' Azzara;
  2. through the State one n. 323,
     with covered S.S. n. 2 Cassia-Castiglion of Orcia, Seggiano-Casteldelpiano- Arcidosso-Roccalbegna;
  3. through the State one n. 146,
     with covered Chianciano-Montepulciano-Pienza- Castiglion d' Orcia;
  4. through the State one n. 478,
     with covered Expressway "Austostrada del Sole"-Sarteano- Radicofani;
  5. through the State one n. 321,
     with covered Chiusi-Cetona-S.S. n. 2 Cassia-Piancastagnaio or Castell' Azzara.

  
  
  

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