On the banks of the Arno River, at Il Girone, lies this war cemetery. It was July 1943 when allied troops from America and Commonwealth landed in Sicily. These armies reached the peninsula only on...
T he Jewish Monumental Cemetery established in 1777, remained in operation until 1870. A high perimeter wall encloses an important cultural treasure consisting of funerary chapels and monuments, among...
The Appennines were stage of terrible days, aerial bombardments, ferocious fights, retaliation on civilians and massacres. one of this spots is at the Futa pass, 903 meter asl. The winners of the...
On the slopes of Monte Giovi, a few kilometers from Vicchio, there is Barbiana, a small village including: the church of Sant’ Andrea, the small cemetery, a few nearby houses, others scattered in the...
Having bought the villa in the second half of the Nineteenth Century, Baroness Favard commissioned Giuseppe Poggi to carry out the works for the modernization and embellishment of the building and the...
The archeological site revealed the Romanic church of S. Martino al Poggio and various materials that date back to the period between the sixth century B.C. and the first century A.D. It also revealed...
Derived from an originary project (80s of the twentieth century) of the architect Leonardo Ricci, a pupil of Giovanni Michelucci, the new courthouse was born with the aim of centralizing all the...
The Zecca Vecchia Tower is part of the last city walls of Florence, built in the thirteenth century at the behest of the Florentine Government (Signoria), on a design by Arnolfo di Cambio. The name...
Its foundation, as an oratory, dates back to 925. Even the Florentine Donati family is among the church's patrons. The current building, the result of many structural changes over the centuries, was...
The Palazzo Sansoni-Trombetta, now home to the Town Hall of Pontassieve, is a building built in the mid-18th century. Once the center of economic, religious, political and social life under the...
