Category: History, Art and Culture

  The first mention of the Castle of vertine dates back to a private document of 1013 while in an act of 1049 such Peter of Peter gives to the monastery of coltibuono the...

Since the Middle Ages, Greve’s history has been linked to its main square, which has always served as a market. The village was a simple dependence of the Castle of Montefioralle but due to...

The territory of San Casciano is already inhabited in Etruscan times as shown by the finds of montefiridolfi (Tomb of the Archer) and valigondoli (excavations of Poggio La Croce). In Roman times it was...

The tumulus of Montecalvario, an Etruscan tomb placed near the inhabited and dated VII-VI century B.C. and the Necropolis of the Poggino, placed near Fonterutoli, attest the presence of the Etruscans in the area....

The history of gaiole in Chianti is closely linked to its position as a road junction in communications between the Chianti and the Upper Valdarno. Thanks to this it became the seat of the...

The area around the capital has been inhabited since 2000 BC, as demonstrated by the archaeological area of Poggio la Croce where the remains of an ancient village have emerged and where, during the...

Barbischio is remembered for the first time at the beginning of the 11th century and later appears as a place of conclusion of notarial deeds, made to relate to being the seat of a...

The origins of the castle date back to the first half of the eleventh century. Subsequent interventions were carried out during the fifteenth, sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. Like almost all the ancient castles, also that...

The chapel is located along the road that leads from Sambuca Val di Pesa to the monastery and takes its name from the farm where it was built. The construction of the chapel was...

the fish chapel is one of the three symbolic places of historic and religious heritage of Badia a Passignano linked to the figure of San Giovanni Gualberto, here in 1050, in occasion of the...