Category Surroundings

30 Sep

Chianti Sculpture Park

The Chianti Sculpture Park located in Pievasciata, in the province of Siena, is a permanent exhibition of contemporary installations and sculptures, perfectly integrating art with nature. The park was born from the work of many artists who first visited the wood and only later made a specific proposal for the chosen place. The union between […]

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30 Sep

Rocca di Campiglia

The whole area of the Rocca di Campiglia, located in the municipality of the same name, is located on a hill just under 300 meters high and was completely restored in 2008, thanks also to the excavation campaigns of the University of Siena. It looks like a semicircular area that includes various structures and buildings: […]

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30 Sep

Castello dei Vicari di Lari

The Castello dei Vicari is located in Buti in the province of Pisa and is home to an educational museum dedicated to the history of the Tuscan territory and to a collection of art and archeology called Museo Filippo Baldinucci, in honor of the great art historian who was also the organizer of the original […]

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30 Sep

Grotte Di Montenero

The Caves of Montenero are part of the Sanctuary of the Madonna di Montenero, a very important Sanctuary whose origins date back to May 15, 1345. On that day for the feast of Pentecost, tradition reports that a poor crippled shepherd found the miraculous image of the Virgin Mary and following an inner intuition, he […]

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30 Sep

Torre Nuova – Isola di Gorgona

Torre Nuova is located on the island of Gorgona, in the Tuscan Archipelago and is a coastal tower. It is located along the east coast of the island near Cala del Porto, which is the only landing place for Gorgona. It was built as a fortified structure by the Medici in the second half of […]

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30 Sep

Parco archeologico di San Vincenzino

The Roman villa of San Vincenzino houses the park of the same name and is located in Cecina. The villa dates back to the 1st century and belonged to Decio Albino Caecina, descendant of an ancient Etruscan family from Volterra and praefectus Urbis (prefect of Rome) in 414 AD. In addition to the villa, there […]

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30 Sep

Abbazia di San Galgano

Famous throughout the world, the Abbey of San Galgano is a Cistercian abbey located in the municipality of Chiusdino not far from Siena. The area consists of a hermitage called Rotonda di Montesiepi and the large, unique and particular abbey. It is a large building in ruins, no longer roofed, a destination for important tourism. […]

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30 Sep

Pieve di San Giovanni Battista

Belonging to the Diocese of Volterra but in the municipality of Montecatini Val di Cecina, we find the Pieve di San Giovanni Battista, precisely in the hamlet of Querceto. The Castle of Querceto was erected on the Montaneo hill in the twelfth century and shortly afterwards the church was also erected within the walls of […]

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30 Sep

Necropoli del Poggino

Tuscany was the cradle of the ancient and in many ways mysterious Etruscan civilization. The main testimonies of these ancestors of ours are the necropolis present throughout the central southern area of the region. One of the most beautiful and perhaps least known necropolis is that of Poggini which is located in the municipality of […]

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30 Sep

Fonte delle Fate

For this visit we must move to the province of Pisa and more exactly to Poggibonzi. The source was erected in the second half of the 13th century and the narration tells us that it can be attributed to Balugano da Crema. The place of its construction was called Valle Piatta and was buried in […]

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