Category: History, Art and Culture

In Origin was known as Fisterinne and we find it mentioned with this name, for the first time in a paper of Badia a Coltibuono dating back to 1033; In that document, signed in...

The Pieve was built in the 12th century and is known for its typical Romanesque architecture. The most noteworthy features in the building are the various sculpted capitals of the columns which divide the...

Of Longobard origin, the castle, still retains its original medieval appearance with a long L-shaped body and the tower, in the middle of the facade. At the Beginning of the century, thanks to Charles...

The first accounts relating to Meleto date back to the eleventh century, at which time it was a property of the Benedictine monks. Subsequently it became the property of a certain “Guardellotto”, a member...

The castle is located near the river Pesa,and is a typical example of a fortified settlement dating from the thirteenth century.  Next to the main tower, which is preserved in excellent condition,there is a building wich was probably constructed in  medieval time....

The period between the ninth and the eighteenth century is one in which were constructed numerous churches. Some, however, date back to earlier times (such as the church of Pacina, whose construction seems it...

 The church of San Martino is known since 998, when Ugo marquess of Tuscany made a donation of land to the Abbey Marturi of Poggibonsi. The Romanesque building elements that are currently visible dates back to the twelfth...

San Leonino is a fraction of Castellina in Chianti: the first documentary evidence of the existence of the village date back to the eleventh century. Just outside of town there is the castle, which still has...

the church was probably built in the tenth century, although it is mentioned for the first time in 1010; the current state of the building is the result of a complete reworking. The church...

The parish church of San Polo in Rosso is located in Poggio San Polo, in the municipality of Gaiole in Chianti. Its construction dates back to the twelfth century. The name of the church...