Category: 6. History, Art and Culture

Serre di Rapolano arose around a Byzantine fortress built probably during the Gothic war (535–553). The Castle, along with other military engineering works, controlled the access roads to the village. Later became a Lombard...

Housed in the palazzo Pretorio, refurbished for the occasion,The terracotta museum is an ethnographic museum included in the circuit of the Sienese museums containing collections of a very important heritage for his community: ancient artefacts...

At the time of the war between Florence and Arezzo, the castle was the refuge of the Ghibellines and after the defeat of the aretini in the battle of Campaldino of 1289, The Guelph of Siena...

Saint George’s Church is a place of Catholic worship in Petroio, in the town of Trequanda. Is the oldest sacred building of the 14th century.       geographic coordinates prtr

The Romanesque church was built in the middle ages, in 1285. Inside, the Church, has a Basilica plan with three naves ending in apses, but only the final part of the naves preserves the original...

 At the beginning, the “Badia Ardenga” was vallombrosan Monastery founded in the 11th century by the counts of Miller, was suppressed by Pope Pius II in 1462; Of Romanesque architecture with elements of Lombard and French...

The Church is a typical Romanesque church in travertine with a semicircular apse and portal with archivolts and patterned frame carved with cherubs. In the apse on a stone is inscribed  the date “MCI”, perhaps...

Rapolano, took current name only in 1949,it Is a spa resort that has two factories: le Terme San Giovanni, set in the hills of Siena, and the Terme Antica Querciolaia, very close to the town....

The “Grancia di Cuna” is one of the best preserved examples of medieval fortified farmhouse, in addition to being one of the most unusual and interesting architectural complexes, in the province of Siena.It Stands where already in...

The medieval old town of Asciano,is a beuatiful centre situated near Siena, that preserves valuable monuments, such as: –Tower of Mencia (the civic Tower of Asciano) -Kiln Asciano -Walls of Asciano –Museum of palazzo Corboli...