Category: 6. History, Art and Culture

The House Museum is located in the historical center of the town and is housed in an old building which faithfully recreate environments of late nineteenth century house of the Amiata mountain. At the...

The Giurisdavidica tower is located on Monte labro, in the municipality of Arcidosso. It was chosen by David Lazzaretti as the center of Giurisdavidic community that he founded. we can still see today  the ruins...

The Gompa Merigar West is a Tibetan temple (gompa is the definition of the temple that come from the regions of Tibet, Bhutan, India and Nepal) built in the 80’s close to Arcidosso. In...

The oldest parts of the Castle of Modanella were built in the 12th century by the noble Cacciaconti family. In a later period, the Piccolomini family of counts inhabited the castle for hundreds of...

The origin of the fortified nucleus is uncertain, since there are no documents prior to the XII century, but according to some sources the place was inhabited already in Etruscan times. The most important...

The parish church of San Vittore is a religious settlement of the eleventh century, quite characteristic; The structure is composed of a basilica plan with three orders of naves and a large apse with...

Ancient Castle near Siena The Saltemnano name preserves the memory of its own Etruscan name, Saltinnanū, revealing the ancient site; the town is mentioned for the first time in a 1055 Bubble, with which...

  The church is a typical  Romanesque church, with a simple travertine façade, a gabled roof and a bell tower;  the single nave interior was renovated by the architect Leonardo de Vegni in 1789....

Montefollonico is a small medieval village (576m above sea level) which had been always involved in the past rivalries between the republics of Siena and Florence; in fact the village was born as a Sienese...

Palazzo Corboli, adjacent to the church of Sant’Agostino, was the residence of the famous family “Baba”,a wealthy Sienese family of merchants who probably lived there since the end of the 200.Inside the palace there...