Montemignaio

In addition to the remains of the castle, called Castel Leone, Montemignaio boasts a parish church that is one of the most remarkable Romanesque buildings of the Casentino, but with the presence of some gothic elements. It seems that the construction was started by the interest of the Countess Matilde and enlarged and completed at the beginning of the XIII-th century by the Guidi Counts. The large bell tower then suggests that originally, at least the lower part, was part of a Lombard watchtower (gardingo).

The village is made up of nineteen hamlets scattered in a semicircle around the parish church of Santa Maria and distributed at various heights of here and of the torrent Scheggia so much that those to the north are called Solatio. Montemignaio is a beautiful village surrounded by lush vegetation at an average altitude of 900 m above sea level. At the beginning of 1900, the writings of Luigi Turchi wrote in his book ‘Montemignaio in Casentino’ that ‘Montemignaio’ offers all the enchantment of nature and the appearance of a real Swiss village, while Carlo Beni in his ‘Guida del Casentino’. of 1883, wrote of Montemignaio as a pleasant summer residence, already known and appreciated for the amenities of the places

Main places of interest

Church of Sant’Agata
Oratory of the Madonna delle Call

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