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{{Infobox mountain<br />
| name = Monte Cetona<br />
| other_name = <br />
| photo = Montecetona.jpg<br />
| photo_caption = Overall view<br />
| elevation_m = 1148<br />
| elevation_ref = <ref>{{cite book | language = it | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=lsaBAAAAIAAJ&q=%22Monte+Cetona%22+altezza | title = Territorio e città della Valdichiana | first1 = Enrico | last1 = Guidoni | first2 = Angela | last2 = Marino | publisher = Multigrafica | year = 1972 | pages = 236 | access-date = 2020-01-06 }}</ref><br />
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| location = [[Tuscany]], [[Italy]]<br />
| range = Tuscan [[Antiapennines]]<br />
| map = Italy<br />
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| map_caption = Italy<br />
| label_position = right<br />
| map_size = 240<br />
| coordinates = {{coord|42.9299591|N|11.8758066|E|type:mountain_region:IT_scale:100000|format=dms|display=inline,title}}<br />
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| type = [[limestone]].<ref name = Touring>{{cite book | language = it | title = Toscana | author = AA.VV. | publisher = Touring Club Italiano | chapter = Parco archeologico-naturalistico del Monte Cetona | pages = 769 | year = 2005 | location = Milano }}</ref><br />
| first_ascent = <br />
| easiest_route = <br />
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The '''Monte Cetona''' is a mountain located in the southern [[Tuscany]] region of Italy.<br />
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== Features ==<br />
[[File:Monte Cetona croce di vetta.png|thumb|upright 0.7|left|Summit cross]]<br />
The mountain stands near the SE border of the [[province of Siena]], and closes the long, hilly ridge which divides [[val d'Orcia]] from [[val di Chiana]]. It belongs to the [[comune|comuni]] of [[Cetona]], [[San Casciano dei Bagni]], [[Radicofani]] and [[Sarteano]]. On its SW slopes is located the spring of the river [[Orcia]], while downstream of the mountain, South of the summit, stands the [[lago di San Casciano]].<br />
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Not far from the summit there are several [[Radio masts and towers|transmission masts]] whose broadcasts, due to [[prominence]] and [[Topographic isolation|isolation]] of the mountain, can reach the areas of [[Perugia]], [[Orvieto]] and [[Arezzo]]. The Monte Cetona belongs to a [[Site of Community Importance|S.C.I.]] also named ''Monte Cetona'' (code IT5190012), which covers an area of 1604 [[hectares|ha]].<ref>{{Natura 2000 |num = IT5190012 | desc = Monte Cetona | access-date = 2020-01-18 }}</ref><br />
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=== Summit cross ===<br />
On the mountain top stands a high [[metal]]lic [[summit cross]], built in 1967. It was realised to replace smaller crosses settled there after the [[II World War]]. The realization of the project was promoted in 1965 by the [[parish]]es of [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Chiusi-Pienza|Diocese of Chiusi]], after the return of the local bishop from Rome where he took part in the [[Second Vatican Council]]. It was officially inaugurated on October the 1st of the same year by [[Brunetto Bucciarelli-Ducci]], former president of the Italian [[Camera dei Deputati]].<ref name = croce>{{cite book | language = it | chapter-url = https://books.google.com/books?id=Xe6a532RzQ8C&q=%22Monte+Cetona%22+croce&pg=PA225 | chapter = La mia croce è più alta della tua | pages = 225 | title = Cetona. Ricordi per il futuro. Testimonianze, foto, cartoline d'epoca per una storia scritta dalla gente | first = Angelo | last = Molaioli | publisher = Emmecipi | year = 2006 |isbn = 9788890208218| access-date = 2020-01-06 }}</ref> The lighting system was turned on for the first time June 29, 1968 at 9 o'clock in the evening, via radio control, by [[Pope Paul VI]].<ref>{{cite book | language = it | title = L'Attività della Santa Sede | author = AA.VV. | publisher = Tipografia poliglotta vaticana | year = 1968 | pages = 574 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=xZ4qAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Monte+Cetona%22+croce | access-date = 2020-01-18 }}</ref> The cross is 10 metres wide, 15 metres high and its weight is 6.200 [[tonne]]s.<ref name = croce /><br />
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==Geology==<br />
[[File:Monte Cetona crinale sud.png|thumb|upright 0.7|Limestone outcrops on the southern ridge]]<br />
Both the slopes of Monte Cetona facing Val d'Orcia and Val di Chiana are covered by sands and clays up to about 800 metres of elevation. In the uppermost part of the mountain emerges the rocky substrate of a [[Karst]]ic origin. The summit is partially made of [[Dolomite (rock)|dolomite]]. North of it some [[cave]]s can be found. Among them are well known the ''Grotte del Belvedere'' (''Belvedere caves''), opened into the [[travertine]] and that were frequented by human beings during the [[prehistory]].<ref name = Touring /><br />
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== Access to the summit ==<br />
The summit of Monte Cetona can be reached following several [[hiking]] itineraries. Can be mentioned the one starting from [[Camporsevoli]] (a small village in the comune of [[Cetona]]), which crosses the Valle Saccaia (''Sacciaia Valley'') and then climbs the Southern ridge up to the summit, and the one starting from Fonte Vetriana, on the W slopes of the mountain.<ref>{{cite web | language = it | url = https://caifirenze.it/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/GEEO-Monte-Cetona-29-9-19.pdf | publisher = Club Alpino Italiano - Sezione di Firenze | title = Monte Cetona | access-date = 2020-01-18 }}</ref><br />
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