© Photos by ROBERTO ALBORGHETTI
My recent 100 days exhibition at Rocca Aldobrandesca – the XIII Century manor on Mount Amiata – gave me the way to trip through the enchanting Tuscany landscapes, discovering its natural beauty. Whatever direction you come from, the Mount Amiata appears suddenly and unequivocally. It shows different profiles: more or less high and more or less large, depending on which side you look at it. Surely its conic shape, that in the past inspired a widespread holiness can only remind of a mother breast, source of nourishment and peace.
The legend says that the Etruscans considered the Mount Amiata a natural sanctuary, the ideal place to evoke their gods. In fact some placenames come from Etruscan and Roman gods names and many people think that, at the time of the Roman expansion in the Etruscan territory, this area was a marginal land, protected by the two-faced god Janus, that set both the geographic and sacred limit between the region dominated by Porsenna and the one dominated by the Tarquin kings.
The mount Amiata is more ancient and sacred than the Etruscans thought, it is a Great Mother full of inexhaustible gifts, that still nourishes its children.
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ROBERTO ALBORGHETTI 
Beautiful photos Roberto.
Thank you so much Debra!
Wonderful landscapes. I can’t believe that I still haven’t been to Tuscany. I have to change this.
Thank you Roger! In Tuscany you find beautiful landscapes and very good food too!!!
Beautiful pictures shared in such a touching way. Thank you.
Thank you so much Meredith! Yes, Tuscany landscapes are really inspiring and so full of poetry.
A very beautiful landscpe beautifully captured Roberto.
Thank you so much! I appreciate your comment… You really do masterpieces with landscapes.
Beautiful photos. Fabulous post.
Toscana – I can never get enough
Thank you
Thank you so much Lyn! Yes, Toscana is the heart of Italy.
How incredibly beautiful your photos are Roberto. And how they make me long to return to my lost love Italia! Quanto è bella l’Italia la madre di tutti noi.
Thank you so much Lanier! I’m so moved by your love for my Country!
Very beautiful!
Thank you!
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