The villa had belonged to the Salviati family from the 15th to the 17th century. It is immersed in a 19th century garden. Sculptures and terracotta tondi by Rustici are all over the park. After a long [...]
The castle has already been mentioned since the fourteenth century with chronicles which attribute the property to the Visdomini family, but only a few ruins had remained before its nineteenth-century [...]
The Fortress of San Martino stands on a hill that dominates the built-up area of San Piero a Sieve. Works started thanks to Cosimo I dei Medici at the end of the Sixteenth Century under pressure from [...]
There are three names by which this place is known: Loggia del Porcellino (from the famous bronze animal - actually not a piggy but a wild boar - a copy of the seventeenth-century original by Tacca in [...]
Properly named Società Ricreativa L'Affratellamento di Ricorboli, the Association was founded as a Mutual Aid Company on July 1st, 1876 and has been in its present location since May 1888. The theatre [...]
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 [...]
Mentioned since 1156 as "San Pietro de Muliere Mala" in an edict by Adrian IV, it was subsequently governed by the Buondelmonti then by the Capitani di Parte Guelfa and lastly by the Grand Duke of [...]
The church is located near the fifth milestone of the Cassia Road variant and it is mentioned as a possession of the Impruneta Parish Church in an edict by Pope Adrian IV of November 29 1156. In the [...]
The first written evidence regarding this building appears in a document dating to February 11 1120 which mentions it under the patronage of the Camaldolese order. Later, it was given to the Impruneta [...]
