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ARMAIOLO is a small village in Val d’Ombrone. It is situated about 1km and a half northwards Rapolano Terme, along the superhighway for Siena. The origin and the etymology of the castle’s name are unknown but we k... more »
The origins of the village get lost in the legend even linked to the foundation of Rome. It seems that, at that time, Remo’ s sons, Senio and Aschio, escaped from the city just founded in Latium from their uncle Romolo,... more »
It comes from the Latin “bonus conventus” and it means “happy, lucky community”: a good assembly of people which enjoys the land’s fertility and the advantages of the nearness of the rivers Arbia... more »
Ancient village , on the top of which survived the rearranged rests of an ancient castle which is part of Saint Angelo in Luco. It is situated on a high slope which, in the past, was covered with woods, where the Monastery of... more »
Lucignano is a nice fortified village with a circular plant, which has kept most of the original medieval sarchitectures. To precede the entrance into the village from the sienese door, there is a brick –fountain, of wh... more »
Lucignano d’Asso represents more the big history than the one which is documented by the Annals of the Great Events. The tenuous colours of its walls, an architecture of great beauty and the settlement in an extraordina... more »
MONTERON GRIFOLI sometimes MONTERON LO GRIFOLI, once MONTERONE Castelletto with arcipretura church (St. Lawrence) approximately one kilometre from S. Giovanni d'Asso located on the crest of a steep cliff cretosa in the hills ... more »
At least from the 1283 men of Montisi were organized in a commune, with its "massari. In August 1289, after the episode of the castle by the fuorusciti Ghibellines, the Sienese authorities decreed the removal of walls, b... more »
Poggio Santa Cecilia is a splendid village on a hillock few kilometres from Rapolano Terme, to which it is linked by a country road which starts from the ancient Thermae of Querciolaia. The name of this village is mentioned i... more »
In the Middle Ages the territory of Rapolano was part of the properties of the Counts of the Scialenga who dominated over the main castle of the area. Very soon( already in the last part of the XII century) the Scialenghi wer... more »
Small castle and administrative centre of Community, about 8 km south-eastwards from Buonconvento. It is situated on a clayed cliff on the right bank of the river Asso. It is one of the numerous villages which have taken thei... more »
The village of Serre di Rapolano is situated on a hill sheltered by an opening between the valley of Sentino and Ombrone. Since the ancient times it was extracted here one of the most fine travertine: today the quarries are p... more »
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