Villa lordly which takes its name from his parish: S. FLORENZIO OF VESCONA, affiliated to pievina of Vescona, also known as St. John of Vescona.
The villa, former castle of the Guinigi Scialenga whose property is witnessed by a public act of 1025, by which one of those dinasti, Count Ranieri, in benefit assigned to the Monastery of St. Saviour of
Berardenga house with a garden, vineyard and a piece of land located at his castle Vescona.

The site is located on the crest of a beach cretosa crossed the highway Lauretana, from Siena to the Tavern of Arbia leads to Asciano, to his left the church of St. Florenzio and the villa of noble Saracini of Siena.
Along the way there was one of those many spedali for pilgrims, which was full Tuscany. It refers statutes in 1298 by the Senese up.
The City of Siena to the 1393 built a fortress in Vescona today incorporated in the building of the house / farm.
The existence of the church of St. Florenzo is testmoniata from a dispute in the 712 promoted by the bishops of Siena against those Arezzo.Other Reference is made in a document dated 1045 in which Immone Bishop of Arezzo, surrendered to the jurisdiction of springs parishes raised in the countryside of Siena. And again in the bubble pdell 'June 8, 1070 sent by Pope Alexander in favour of the jurisdiction of Constantine Bishop of Arezzo. The same is true of other bull of Pope Honorius III, 27 May 1220.
Even the Monastery of St. Eugenio at Siena until the eleventh century possessed a court in Vescona, confermatagli two Emperors: Henry IV in the 4 June 1081 and Chris on 8 August 1185

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