Category: History, Art and Culture

 In Montebenichi, we can find a special giant olive tree named by the CNR “Olivone“, so unique in the world, and affectionately called “Noccolo “by the owner of the land. To visit what remains of the “Olivone,...

In the basement of where in the 18th century was the farm Pietrange, we can find today the Museum of memory. A documentation centre of the the massacre of San Pancrazio completed in 29 June 1944. The goal...

This charming village,is situated on the high ground on the right bank of Ambra, is very small. We can admirre the castle, well preserved, the small church, and the walls merging with medieval buildings. geographic coordinates...

The locality of Altaserra is known to archaeologists for the Roman sarcophagus in travertine found on the forecourt of the ancient Church of Santa Maria, sitauted exactly in Altaserra, but now preserved in the cloister of...

The Reconstruction and enlargement facts occurred in the 16th century and the subsequent changes of modern times have dramatically changed the original structure of the church of Santa Maria Assunta. In the nave, we can...

 The Church, Documented since 1021, but perhaps of early Christian origin, has undergone over time many interventions, even radical( the restoration in Romanesque style of the XI-XII century) who changed the orientation until its complete rebuilding in 1928. Scarce...

Probably built in the early Christian era,and first mentioned in 963,this church was of great importance in the 14th century.  Inside there is a rich  furniture consisting of a baptismal font, a Tabernacle and a painting...

The Church of the company of the visitation is a sacred building in Badia Agnano,in the municipality of Bucine. Built in the early seventeenth century,it houses a large painting of the visitation, dated 1637, recognized as...

The small medieval church, composed by a single Hall, covered by trusses lines, is introduced on the left flank by a porch from the simple Renaissance type, and contains various frescoes of great interest, dating from the 14th...

Founded in 1337 by the Florentine Republic, Terranuova (Newland) was originally the name of Castel Santa Maria and was one of the “walled lands“ built to defend the Valdarno       geographic coordinates