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Halfway between Tuscany and Lazio, there is a mountain 1748 meters high, from which you can see half of Italy. It is an extinct volcano inhabited since the time of the Etruscans: and despite being in a strategic place, it has remained a little behind in its development, as if it were asleep. It is Mount Amiata. Amiata is surrounded by a green blanket of perennial trees, the Amiata forest, which is also the largest beech forest in Europe. Here among woodcutters, ex-miners and bakers we enter the territory of a volcano that is all too alive.