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Le Balze di Volterra (sunset in the mist)

The area around Volterra presents a particular landscape formed by highs ravines which century ago swallowed the ancient etruscan necropoli. This fenomen it's caused by a large layer of sand in the superior part, more resistent of water erosion than underlying clay, wich are easly removed by atmospherics agents; this erosion provokes lack of support to the layer of hard sand and confers this typicall formations called Balze.

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Uploaded on July 25, 2017
Taken on July 22, 2017