The collapse of a stretch of medieval walls of Volterra which occurred this morning and caused one person to be injured. The Fire Brigade on their
The collapse occurred in via della Petraia: a portion of the ancient walls was affected by a landslide with the consequent collapse of the masonry works on the road below. The police have secured the area, but other small collapses cannot be ruled out.
The 118 vehicles and the police were also on site.
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Image of the landslide from above. Volterra, 5 May 2024
The mayor of Volterra: ‘”3 families evacuated”
The collapse of a portion of the city wall which occurred this morning caused theevacuation of three familiesannounced the mayor Giacomo Santi, specifying however that “it is a precautionary measure and that at the moment there is no damage to homes: an alternative solution to returning to one’s home has already been found for everyone”. Santi then added that the civil protection dog units “have ruled out the presence of other people involved“. A woman was slightly injured due to the collapse. The collapse, she explained, “occurred approximately 500 meters away from that of ten years ago and this demonstrates the fragility of the city walls even if there was no sign of dangerous situations”. The failure, concludes the mayor, “it may have been caused by the rains of the last few days although it is early to make hypotheses: in the meantime we are waiting for the arrival of other fire brigade teams from the Pisa headquarters to remove the debris and rubble caused by the collapse”.
The landslide in Volterra 5 May 2024
The previous collapse 10 years ago in Volterra
Already ten years ago, on 31 January 2014, due to an exceptional wave of bad weather, with heavy rain, a stretch of about 30 meters. The road had also collapsed and homes had been evacuated.
The following October, with the works completed in record time – thanks to the intervention of the Tuscany Region and the Ministry for Cultural Heritage, works worth 5 million were financed, contracted and carried out -, the stretch of via Lungo le Walls rebuilt after the collapse and returned to use by citizens. A second phase of interventions then followed with the consolidation of the slope of the Viale Trento e Trieste wall.
HandleThe fallen medieval walls in Volterra, 31 January 2014.
