Through the Casentino with Hints for the Traveller

It was late one afternoon in April when we left the train at Bibbiena,

and, shouldering our knapsacks, wended our way up from the station to

the town. We were well in the land of the ancient Etruscans, that

mysterious and visionary people whose fleet swept the Tyrrhenian Sea at

a time when the greatness of Rome was not. Like other Etruscan cities,

Bibbiena lies on the summit of a hill, and many examples of Etruscan art

industry have been discovered in its neighbourhood.