Category: History, Art and Culture

The first evidence of the existence of the fort dates back to 1088 when it was the residence of Count Guido Alberto dei Marchesi di Spoleto, which starting from this fortress succeeded during the...

At Castel Castagnaio, on a high ground at 800 meters above sea level, there is an ancient Etruscan temple, on which was then built a Roman temple and finally, around 1000, on the foundations...

It is an important archaeological site where many statues have been found mainly of Etruscan origin, but also Greek-Hellenistic and Roman. A large part of these represents human anatomical parts, which are to be...

The presence of the Etruscans is documented right at the mouth of the valley that leads to Talla, from the great votive altar found behind the apse of Pieve a Socana, and is also...

From the historical point of view Cetica, like all the upper Casentino, was in the medieval period place under the lordship of the Guidi. Here was also a castle, called Sant’Angelo, belonging to this...

Just at the confluence of the Arno and its first tributary on the left, the Staggia torrent, arose the first nucleus of what would become in the future the town of Stia, most likely...

In the Middle Ages Pratovecchio was a fief of the Guidi Counts who had various castles in Casentino, such as that of Romena, and founded the current convent of the Camaldolesi. Count Marcovaldo built...

The history of the town is closely linked to the events of the family of the Guidi counts, who dominated it from 1191 until 1440 when it became the seat of the vicar of...

The toponym is attested for the first time in 1247 and probably derives from a Roman name of person Hortinius, while Raggiolo is attested in 967 as Ragiola and comes from the Latin radius...

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...