Category: 6. History, Art and Culture

This church is a sacred building in Torrenieri, in the town of Montalcino, in the Archdiocese of Siena-Colle di Val d’Elsa-Montalcino. The structure has a simple brick façade and is characterised by the presence...

The hill upon which Montalcino sits has probably been settled since Etruscan times; Its first mention in historical documents in 814 AD suggests that  there was a church here in the 9th century, most...

The complex was built during the 12th century and belonged to the Hospital of Santa Maria della Scala in Siena; it is mentioned for the first time in a document from 1590. The Church was...

The Church as it was surrounded by gardens that would have become the Horti Leonini. The Church was located on the Via Francigena near the iron gate. Its construction probably dates back to the...

  Of Romanesque origin,and restored inside, it has a single nave and preserves remains of frescoes from the 14th and 15th centuries. Originally, it preserved also a beautiful baptismal font, that was then moved in The Collegiata...

The Dutch scholar etruscologist Van Der Meer has identified the current San Quirico d’Orcia with the locality of Ena mentioned in liber Liber Linteius Zagrabiensis, known as the oldest book of Western Europe, written between the...

In the 15th century were carried out renovation work that modified the original appearance of the  Spedaletto castle ,of medieval origin, giving it the appearance of Grange (fortified farm). In the XIX century was added...

The city until 1462 was nothing but a small hamlet called Corsignano. The event that changed the tide was the birth in 1405 of Enea Silvio Piccolomini, who 53 years later became Pope Pius II....

“Il bosco della ragnaia sculpture park” is a really particular park. The Park’s entrance reads the motto: “if not here, where?“. In these woods, once ruled by sages and populated by creatures, you can free...

The Church of the Madonna delle Grazie was built near the town of San Giovanni d’asso, along the road to Asciano, at the end of the sixteenth century. In 1816, Jerome Marsili, (Rector of St. John the...