Category: History, Art and Culture

  The origin of the Abbey of San Piero a Ruoti is very remote and until today the date of its foundation can not be established with certainty,however there is no doubt that this monastery had been erected...

Rocca Ricciarda  is clinging on a spur of rock, 937 meters high, crouched at the foot of the cross of Pratomagno, near the headwaters of the river Ciuffenna. the most characteristic of Rocca Ricciarda...

The monastery of Santa Maria a Vallombrosa in Reggello, Mother House of the Congregation, stands on the site where, in the mid-eleventh century, the founder  San Giovanni Gualberto first erected a simple chapel for...

  The forest of Sant’Antonio in Reggello, is a place characterised by hardwood forests and grasslands, relevant to the variety of plant species, while from the point of view of wildlife we can notice the presence of wolves. The...

The Parish church of San Pancrazio  seems to be mentioned in a document that date back to Charlemagne’s period, and basing our hypothesis only on the architectural remains it is not mistaken to say that the church, at...

Moncioni is part of the municipality of Montevarchi, in the province of Arezzo, located at 529 meters above sea level located on the hills of Chianti; It is now known for the production of an...

The castle stands on a hill of 477 meters, dominating the Valdambra; in the Middle Ages  it was an important transit between the Valdarno and the Florentine Valley. It originated in the Etruscan-Roman period and then developed at...

Established more than one thousand years ago, Il Borro has ancient and mysterious origins, now lost in the mists of time. Perhaps the Etruscans founded the settlement, but there is no concrete evidence to...

The medieval Door Bell introduces us into the heart of the ancient castle of Montemarciano, which still almost intact fourteenth floor plan.   Even this small urban center is located on a spur of...

Above the altar stands a beautiful fresco dated to the third decade of the fifteenth century, with the Enthroned Madonna and Child with Saints Michael and John the Baptist, initially attributed to Masaccio, and...