COLLE DI VAL  D' ELSA, a See also:

• TOWN

town and episcopal see of See also:

• ITALY
• ITALY (Italia)

Italy, in the See also:

• PROVINCE
• PROVINCE (Lat. provincia; perhaps a contraction of providentia)

province of See also:

• SIENA

Siena, 5 M. by See also:

• RAIL

rail S. of Poggibonsi, which is 16 m . N.W. of Siena . Pop . (1901) town 1987; See also:

• COMMUNE (Med. Lat. communia, Lat. communis, common)
• COMMUNE, MEDIEVAL

commune 9879 . The old (upper) town (732 ft. above See also:

• SEA (in O. Eng. sae, a common Teutonic word; cf. Ger. See, Dutch Zee, &c.; the ultimate source is uncertain)
• SEA, COMMAND OF THE

sea-level), contains the See also:

• CATHEDRAL

cathedral, dating from the 13th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century, with a See also:

• PULPIT (from Lat. pulpitum, a staging, platform: equivalents are Fr. chaire d'eglise, Ital. pulpito, Ger. Kanzel)

pulpit partly of this See also:

• PERIOD
• PERIOD (Gr. irepioSos, a going or way round, circuit, aepi, round, and &Sis, way, road)

period; the See also:

• FACADE

facade has been modernized . There are also some old palaces of See also:

• GOOD, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

good See also:

• ARCHITECTURE (Lat. architectura, from the Gr. ap)(LTEKrwv, a master-builder)

architecture, and the old See also:

• HOUSE
• HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in Gothic it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

house where Arnolfo di Cambio, the first architect of the cathedral at See also:

• FLORENCE
• FLORENCE (Ital. Firenze, Lat. Florentia)

Florence (1232–1301) was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born . The See also:

• LOWER

lower town (46o ft.) contains See also:

• GLASS
• GLASS (O.E. glees, cf. Ger. Glas, perhaps derived from an old Teutonic root gla-, a variant of glo-, having the general sense of shining, cf. " glare," " glow ")
• GLASS, STAINED

glass-See also:

• WORKS

works; the See also:

• PAPER
• PAPER (Fr. papier, from Lat. papyrus)

paper and See also:

• IRON [symbol Fe, atomic weight 55.85 (0=16)]

iron See also:

• INDUSTRIES

industries (the former as old as 1377) are less important .