…thanks to its position, the Valdichiana has always represented an optimal point of passage for human movements. Whoever may have wanted to reach northern destinations or, on the contrary, approach the southern development of the Italian peninsula, would have been able to do so by getting around impervious mountain passes and difficult communication trenches. Not by chance, the valley was chosen by the Romans as the ideal territory in which to built their communications road towards the north, such as the Cassia Vetus, the Clodia, and the Cassia Adrianea