Volterra
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Volterra is a walled mountaintop town in the Tuscany region of Italy. Its history dates from before the 8th century BC and it has substantial structures from the Etruscan, Roman, and Medieval periods.
Volterra from above. June 2024
Palazzo dei Priori is Volterra's Town Hall.
View from Volterra.
View of Volterra
Pope Linus
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Pope Linus was the bishop of Rome from c. 68 to his death in 80. He is generally regarded as the second bishop of Rome, after Saint Peter. As with all the early popes, he was canonized.
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…Persius (34–62), the Roman satirist of Etruscan stock Pope Linus, who, according to the Liber Pontificalis, was born in Volterra, and was the successor to Peter Lucius Petronius Taurus Volusianus, consul with the…
10th-century Byzantine portrait of Linus from Menologion of Basil II in the Vatican Library