The Medieval village of Collesalvetti

The village of Collesalvetti is surrounded by green hills and rises in the green belt of a thick wood vegetation.

The village has Medieval origins and it is rich of fine monuments and elegant palaces testifying its secular history.

In the very heart of the historic centre rises the Saints Quirico and Juditte Church, whose building goes back to 1853 and whose inside it is possible to admire fine eighteenth-century paintings by different artists.

Very valuable is also the Leopold's Aqueduct, whose building goes back to the Grand Ducal Age for the will of the Grand Duke Ferdinando III, who ordered the building to the Florentine architect Giuseppe Salvetti.

The aqueduct was built between 1792 and 1806 on a course that, going through the hills, extended from the close springs in Cologne to the city of Livorno. The building was equipped with three tanks used to purify the flowing water and to distributed it.

Today it is still possible to visit the Leopold's Aqueduct and also to follow its suggestive route along eighteent kilometers of Mediterranean brushwood.

It is also possible to admire the numerous parts forming the aqueduct like the archs, the galleries, the tanks and the polygonal shrines.