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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 Ceciliae 'a beautiful country which is located on a hill a few miles away. By Rapolano Terme, which unites him a white road that starts from Ancient Baths of Querciolaia. The name of this village I read in the wo... more »
To be on the borders of the State of Siena, the castle was attacked several times and taken. The Florentine in the thirteenth century devastated three times: in 1208, in 1233-34 and in 1253. Other destruction took place in 13... more »
S. JOHN D 'ASSO small castle capital Community at about 8 kilometers southeast of Buonconvento.Si's over a cliff clay on the right bank of the river Ace. This is one of the many countries that took its name from his church m... more »
The village of Serre is perched on a hill behind a gate that opens in the valley of Sentino and Ombrone. Since there is extracted from a travertine among the most valuable now quarries are partly decommissioned. The villag... more »
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