After long and delicate restoration work of the Grancia Serre di Rapolano was opened to the public in new role as a museum.
The Museum dell'Antica Grancia owned by the Municipality of Rapolano was achieved with the contribution of the Province of Siena in collaboration with the Superintendency el'Assessorato of Culture of Tuscany.
The move is symbolically riannodano the threads of a long history of not only the community of Rapolano and Serre, but of the whole province from the Santa Maria della Scala and System of Grance drew many important pages of its history .
Some historical. Its implementation began in the thirteenth century and around the fourteenth century the complex had already taken that aspect a continuous block which still has. Between the end of the fourteenth century and the early fifteenth century was partly transformed into a fortress. Between 1521 and 1531 were adjusted environments representing the Grancia in the hall. It was built a new chapel next to the medieval. Around 1575 was the big building with three floors that extends under the courtyard of the second Grancia. The interventions of the last centuries reflect the functional nature, which bought the building with the alienation occurred in 1790.
This is a historical and cultural heritage very important that represented the centre of local agricultural production capable of ensuring the food for the hospital Siena. The Grancia was a deposit of wheat, processing of oil and wine. Just to keep this multiplicity of functions, the Museum dell'Antica Grancia provides an articulated.
Inside there is an area called "museum of" dedicated all'olivicoltura and the cycle of oil, which uses spaces and machinery of an old mill. In these local panels are placed on the cultivation and processing of oil that was precisely nine hundred stored in ziri. Another area of the museum contains the Documentation Centre of Grance. In one wing of four multimedia stations allow visitors to know, through appropriate hypertexts, the events of Grancia and System of Grance of St. Mary. E 'can also make a virtual tour in major architectural structures of the building.

ORARIO DI APERTURA

Da aprile a ottobre: il mercoledì e il giovedì ore 15.00 - 17.30; il venerdì ore 10.30 - 13.00 / 15.00 - 17.30; il sabato e la domenica ore 10.30 - 13.00 / 15.00 - 19.00
Da novembre a marzo: il venerdì e il sabato ore 10.30 - 13.00 / 15.00 - 17.30; la domenica ore 10.30 - 13.00 / 14.00 - 18.00
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