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Palazzo dei Priori - Volterra

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Welcome

Piazza di Priori shares its name with the main building that faces it: the Priori palace, since the 13th century, the site of the Municipality of Volterra.
In 1208, the elders and the people of Volterra decided on the construction of a new palace that would face this plaza and that would be a worthy and imposing site for the Municipality, the Priori palace.

The bulk of the building dominates the entire plaza; it became inhabitable a few years after the 1208 decision, but it was completed only in 1257, with the construction along the via Turezza of a second building called the rear house. Above the main body, consisting of a squat parallelepiped, rises a high tower that makes the palace look more like a fortification than a public building.

Information

Opening hours

From March 10th to November 2nd  2025
DAILY from 10:00 a.m. to 06:30 p.m.

Tickets

Full: 10,00€
Reduced (Youth 6-18, over 65, Coop and TCI): 8,00€
Adult groups (min 10 pax): 6,00€

 

From November 3rd 2025 to March 9th 2026
WEEKDAYS: from 10:00 a.m. to 04:00 p.m.
HOLIDAYS: from 10:00 a.m. to 06:30 p.m.
MONDAY: closed
CLOSED CHRISTMAS

Tickets

Full: 10,00€
Reduced (Youth 6-18, over 65, Coop and TCI): 8,00€
Adult groups (min 10 pax): 6,00€

 

Volterra Card rates

 
 Periods

(valid for 72 hours = 3 days)
Etruscan Museum Guarnacci, Art Gallery, Ecomuseum of Alabaster, Priori Palace, Etruscan Acropolis and Roman Cistern, Roman Theatre
and Religious Art Museum (from 1st April 2025)
23/02-31/03 01/04-02/11
Full: 20,00€ 23,00€
Reduced (university students with ID, youth 6-18, over 65, Coop members, FAI, TCI and groups of adults min 6 pax): 15,00€ 18,00€
Student groups (school students outside the municipal area - min 10 pax): 6,00€ 6,00€
Groups (min 10 pax) 10,00€ 12,00€
     

Volterra Card Family

   
Special for youth (6-18 years) accompanied by 1-2 adults up to a maximum of 5 people: 30,00€ 32,00€
Youth up to 6 years old, residents of the Municipality of Volterra, disabled and carers, teachers and companions of school groups, licensed tour guides, journalists, ICOM members Free Free

 

SAT coordinates

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pointLat. 43.401943 - Lon. 10.859701

Contact

Palazzo dei Priori di Volterra
Piazza dei Priori, 1
56048 Volterra (PI)
Tel.: +39 0588 86099