Sorano · Tuscany · Beneath Palazzo Palloni
Seven metres beneath the piazza.
N 42°40′55″ · E 11°43′12″ · −7 m
La Storia
One door on the piazza, and a staircase that keeps going down.
The first chamber was carved into the tuff in the 13th century. The date 1499 is inscribed above the square, marking the reorganisation of the space before the church of San Nicola.
In the late 1700s the Palloni family built the palazzo above the bedrock and excavated the cellar, and from then it held the wine their — now gone — vineyards produced.
