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Florence luxury villa rentals with swimming pool and air conditioning for a vacation in total relax. Villa La Querce is a charming place located only 12 km off Florence, a mere 20 minute trip by car, ideal for those who would like to visit the Uffizi...
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Wine jars and tasting cups found in Etruscan tombs dating to approximately 1000 BC show that vines have been cultivated in Carmignano since Pre Roman times. More specifically, a parchment rent contract conserved in the Florence State Archives, dated 804,...
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The Villa of Vignamaggio, surrounded by an elegant Italian garden in a stunningly beautiful corner of the Chianti countryside, offers an authentic testimony of countrylife during the Renaissance period. The main part of the villa dates back to the 14th...
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Around the year 1000 A.D , the canons of Siena's cathedral decided to construct a new abbey not too far from the city. The abbey was to be located on a panoramic hillside in the middle of a forest filled with "cerri" - turkey oak trees- and it was here...
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The "Petrolo Estate" is situated among the green olive groves, active vineyards and beautiful oak woods. A place full of charm and history. The estate has , as its landmark , the Tower of Galatrona. The Tower's foundation dates back to the Etruscan and...
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Veniero Palace (XIII century)
This building is of exceptional rarità and worth as it represents the late Byzantine and Arab taste uniquelly drafted in compositive organic continuity. The three large arched windows on each floor are surrounded by wide fillet in grey and yellow tufo, two narrower fillet, used ad floor markers underline the two rows of windows and round tiles, like small rose windows with majolica paterae in the centre alternate at the apertures with a slightly raised contour at the base of theplaster. The inlaid tufo decorat ion deve-lops a succession of lozenges with the exception of the central window whose frieze follows a zig-zag motif.
(source: Surrentum Magazine)