Category: History, Art and Culture

La Loggia Art Center

Founded several years ago by Giulio Baruffaldi,  La Loggia Art Centre has the aim to promote the contemporary arts and wants above all to be a place where art is created: therefore there is...

Chianti Sculpture Park

The Chianti Sculpture Park was conceived and realized by Rosalba and Piero Giadrossi, both passionate about contemporary art. They chose seven hectares (17 acres) of an untouched wood of ilex and oak trees. After...

Badia a Passignano

Giovanni Aretino, in his narration of the life of St. Zanobius, a Florentine bishop, narrates that he gave away all his possessions to the poor and founded a community of monks at Passignano in...

Sant’Appiano Parish Church

The beauty of this landscape,aParish of suggestive beauty,(already mentioned in a document of 990)is accompanied by the sacredness of the place, here in fact, they are preserved the remains of the saint who gave...

San Leolino Parish Church

This church is remembered since 982, under the name of San Leolino in Flacciano, in a parchment found in the Abbey of Passignano. The present building dates from the twelfth century as can be deducted  from the...