Category: History, Art and Culture

The present Pieve di Romena was built in the mid-twelfth century over an earlier triabsidata church dating back to the eighth century of which the remains are visible under the presbytery. Popular legends attribute...

The source of the Arno, or Capo d’Arno, at 1358 meters above sea level. Capo d’Arno is certainly a place of great relaxation and very suitable for eating a well-deserved sandwich after a nice...

Molin di Bucchio is the first mill that meets in the river Arno. Since the Middle Ages this area has been marked by the presence of hydraulic factories most likely controlled by the feudal...

The planetarium reconstructs, inside a room with a special dome, the sky as we would see it open in a place away from the annoying lights of the city. Playing with the celestial sphere...

The Arboretum, (it is defined as a particular botanical garden in which they collect, instead of herbaceous specimens, of the arboreal individuals) was born in 1846 as a Park next to the Abbey of...

It was inaugurated in autumn 2010 after three years of restoration work on the building, an admirable example of industrial archaeology, which until the mid-twentieth century was one of the major centers for wool...

Arezzo was built in the pre-etrusca era in an area inhabited since prehistory, as demonstrated by the discovery of stone tools and the so-called “Olmo Man”, dating back to the Paleolithic, occurred near the...

GpsCoordinates   State Archaeological Museum Gaio cilnio Dedicated to the Arezzo Gaius cilnio patron, an important figure of Rome at the time of Augustus from whom comes the word patronage, is housed since 1937...

The castle of Gressa was built between the tenth century and the beginning of the eleventh, at the behest of Bishop Elemperto, head of the diocese of Arezzo from 986 to 1010. The bishop,...

The first mention of the castle dates back to the beginning of the eleventh century, when a document of 1017 designates it as the residence of Count Teudelgrimo Guidi, founder of the noble family...