Before turning to the right under the last of the arches of the hospital loggia, which opens on the Via della Colonna and from the piazza always frames such a charming picture of houses and mountains, it is well, with so much of Andrea del Sarto's work warm in one's memory, to take a few steps up the Via Gino Capponi (which also always frames an Apennine vista under its arch) to No.

24, and see Andrea's house, on the right, marked with a tablet.
In the Via della Colonna we find, at No.

26 on the left, the Palazzo Crocetta, which is now a Museum of Antiquities, and for its Etruscan exhibits is of the greatest historical value and interest to visitors to Tuscany, such as ourselves.

For here you may see what civilization was like centuries before Christ and Rome.

The beginnings of the Etruscan people are indistinct, but about 1000 B.C.has been agreed to as the dawn of their era.