Pitigliano appears all of a sudden, carved out of a tufa crag rising from the valley: one of the most spectacular villages in Tuscany, at the heart of the tufa country together with Sovana and Sorano, in the southern Maremma, province of Grosseto. Its alleyways weave together Etruscan history, the Middle Ages and the memory of the Jewish community that earned it the name "Little Jerusalem", with its synagogue and historic quarter. All around, vines and olive groves on tufa, the vie cave carved into the rock and, a few kilometres away, the thermal waters of Saturnia. A village alive all year round, strategically placed between the hills and the sea of the Argentario.