Monte Ceceri
Monte Ceceri is a hill near Fiesole, Tuscany. It is part of a nature reserve to the northeast of the city of Florence, within the Metropolitan City of Florence. History Monte Ceceri was named for the swans that would once frequent the area, whose outgrowth on the beak, to the local Florentines, looked like chickpeas (the word for which is ''ceceri'' in Florentine dialect, and in Italian). Since antiquity, the hill was quarried for construction of settlements in Florence and Fiesole. The ruins of some of the miners' huts are still present today along with several surviving necropolis, necropoleis. From the top of the hill, one can have a panoramic view of the city of Florence and the surrounding hills of the Arno, Arno Valley. The hill is currently part of a park called the Protected Natural Area of Local Interest Montececeri, or simply Montececeri Park. In the highest part of the park, a stele shows a famous phrase with which Leonardo da Vinci celebrates the grandeur of th ...
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