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Quando ci si riferisce all’eredità dei Cavalieri templari occorre distinguere due piani tra loro non coincidenti. Il primo è il piano istituzionale e attiene alla storia medievale, il secondo, invece, è quello simbolico e attiene alla storia moderna e contemporanea: di quest'ultimo si occupa il presente contributo.
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Famous for its Etruscan necropolises, Populonia has been the focus of an ambitious research programme over the last twenty years, carried out in collaboration between the Archaeological Superintendency of Tuscany, the local authorities and the universities of Pisa, Siena and Rome, under the scientific direction of M. C. Gualandi (Universà degli Studi di Pisa), C. Mascione (Universà degli Studi di Siena) and D. Manacorda (Universà degli Studi di Roma). C. Gualandi (Università degli Studi di Pisa), C. Mascione (Università degli Studi di Siena) and D. Manacorda (Università degli Studi Roma Tre). The aim of the project was to gain a deeper understanding of the upper part of the city, which had been identified as the acropolis of the Roman city by the remains of a Hellenistic sanctuary discovered in the 1980s by A. Romualdi. Following fruitful excavation campaigns, the results of which have been published annually between 2002 and 2011 in the first ten volumes of the 'Materiali per Populonia' collection, research has made it possible to reconstruct the history of this sector of the city, whose development dates back to a period after the inclusion of the Etruscan town of Popluna in the Roman sphere of influence, at the beginning of the third century BC. This article presents the preliminary results of excavations carried out in 2009 in the area immediately behind one of the temples on the acropolis (temple "C"). Here, a three-foot-wide ambulacrum separated the temple from another building, the nature of which could not be determined, but which was probably connected to the temple. Finally, excavations in this sector have enabled us to pinpoint the chronology of the temple's foundation (after the beginning of the 2nd century BC), as well as that of its abandonment, marked by its partial conversion into a dwelling (end of the 4th century AD).