when you see Pitigliano, it's like turning the pages of a book of fairy tales set in the Middle Ages.  The high tufa cliffs are chiselled with a thousand caves and tower-houses built on a tufaceous drum in the same jutting vertical as the sheer cliffs which make the city wall almost superfluous.  This extraordinary town has been called "Little Jerusalem" because of its large and active Jewish population which settled there beginning in the 15th century.

The archaeological park "Città del Tufo" is unique of its kind. Here you find the most interesting Etruscan sites,  innumerable necropoleis carved in the rock,  now immersed in nature.
Here the caves, the vie cave, wells, tunnels and hydraulic systems are all joined within a single landscape. The necropoleis, all cut in the tufa, are wrapped in thick, protective vegetation, making them all the more fascinating and mysterious.
The most important tombs are the Tomba del Sileno, the Tomba della Sirena and the monumental Tomba Ildebranda, considered the masterpiece of all sepulchre.
The most important cliff settlements in Italy can be found in the neighbourhood of the Rocca di Vitozza.