Center of art and culture in the province in Siena, Hill of Val of hilt it is a place of over 20000 inhabitants, among the hills licked up by the river Hilt. Inside the city the Archaeological Museum you/they can be visited "White Bandin", the Civic Museum and of Sacred art, Building Bell and the Building Pretorio.
The real birth of the city is made to go up again to the Middle Ages, although human presences are also attested in the area in the Neolitico, over that to the epoch etrusco-Roman. The first documents that speak of Hill of Val of hilt originate from the X century.

To the epoch the autonomous suburbs of Saint Caterina, the Castle of Piticciano and the Plan are developed, all risen ones thanks to the street Francigena, a road of connection with the north crossed by all the pilgrims and wayfarers that go to Rome. The first two suburbs rise in the hilly zone, while the third one, detached more, it is that in which it develops him the agricultural activity.
It is toward the end of the XII century that the territory begins to take on a shape himself/herself/themselves as an autonomous political subject, up to the editing of the first town statutes, risalenti to 1307. Beginning from the XIII century the are realized "also gore", of the artificial canalettis dug by the principal course of the river Hilt. Along the gores first mills, paper mills and gualchiere will rise, then the today's industrial fittingses.
Hill of Val of hilt you/he/she is also remembered and above all for a famous battle happened within his/her confinements in 1269.

On the occasion of such clash between guelfi and ghibellini, fatal to these last, the Florentines get a decisive victory and they cancel the shame of the 1260 Montaperti battle, of which you/they were gone out winning Senesi and ghibellini. The battle of Hill Val of hilt draws the definitive political order in Tuscany consolidating the Florentine hegemony and guelfa. In the following period, after the siege 1479 senese and the devastations to it owed, the territory of the Val of hilt profits some process of fortification that invests all the dominoes of the Physicians.
Annexed to the Granducato in Tuscany and elevated to diocese from Clemente VIII, in 1592, the commune lives an epoch of intense changes.

Numerous his/her citizens they affirms in fact in the fields of the art, of the literature, of the jurisprudence and in the Florentine court of the Physicians. From the XVIII century in then, to the proverbial industry paper mill, that counts in 1645 on well 18 establishments along the gores of the hilt, they slowly replace him the activities of workmanship of the iron and the glass. This last becomes during the last centuries the factor trainante of the economy, thanks to which Hill Val of hilt is earned in the eight hundred the nicknames of " Boemia of Italy" and " City of the Crystal."