Category: 6. History, Art and Culture

The monastery dates back to the Lombard age founded around the 8th century by the monks of San colombano, who will welcome the Benedictine reform towards the 9th century, but it is known only...

Between the 8th and 7th centuries BC, Cortona became an important Etruscan lucumonia. Very probably, Cortona became a very powerful city thanks to its strategic position, which allowed a wide control of the territories...

Inhabited since prehistory, the Castilian territory experienced a first period of flowering with the Villanovian era. The inhabited nucleus of Castiglione developed in Etruscan times, already starting from the VI century B.C. fundamental crossroads...

Already populated in Roman times, Civitella became a Lombard stronghold and there was built the castle that is still visible today. The main attractions of the village of Civitella are undoubtedly the ancient Rocca,...

The area of the current municipality of foiano della Chiana was populated since the 6th century BC, when the whole Val di Chiana witnessed the proliferation of Etruscan civilization. After the long Roman domination...

the Municipal Museum, which houses valuable works from the 13th century to the 18th century (including two paintings, San Francesco receiving the stigmata and Madonna and Child, attributed to Luca signorelli) and the splendid...

The municipal area and the hill on which today stands the chief town knew a dense population, like all Valdichiana, already in the Villanovan and Etruscan times. The area fell under Rome during the...

Like the whole Val di Chiana, the same area now in the municipality of Marciano was densely populated already in Etruscan times, when it was subject to the influence of the powerful Lucumonia of...

Of Monte San Savino, almost certainly of Etruscan origin, we have sure news only from the XI century when of this part of the territory were lords the ubertini and their consorts; it was...

Of medieval origin, the first citations date back to the XIII century. Due to its strategic position, the fortified village of gargonza was long at the center of conflicts between Guelphs and Ghibellines. In...