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Villa Degli Olivi

A beautiful villa with attractive architectural features situated outside Castiglion Fiorentino, a typical Tuscan town on the hills of the Val di Chiana, surrounded by age-old olive groves and ancient cypress trees. The origins of the town date back in history. It certainly already existed before the Etruscan period, though it was in the late Middl

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Casa Primetta

The hamlet of Valagnesi is set in the Casentino Nature Park not far from Pratovecchio and the Monastery of Camaldoli. This ‘borgo’ has a small church and some stone houses where country folk used to live. The house, set 800m above sea level on the top of a hill, dominates the valley and has magnificent views of the surrounding woods, the ancient ca

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VOLTERRA The earliest references to the city date to Villanovan times, that is to the iron age (9th-7th cent. B.C.). As Velathri, it was for a long time one of the most powerful lucumonies in Etruria. It was so important that in the 3rd century B.C. it had around 25,000 inhabitants and was the last lucumony to fall to the Romans after a siege that lasted two years (81-80 B.C.). The city was quite powerful between the 12th and 14th centuries when it often found itself fighting Pisa, Florence, Siena and San Gimignano for a question of territory and finally fell to the Florentines in 1361.

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Cortona

Already famous in Etruscan times, Cortona became an ally of Rome in the 4th century B.C. In the 13th century it became a free commune but at the end of the century it was occupied by Arezzo. After alternating political vicissitudes the city became a signoria of the Casali fa-mily. In 1411 it entered the Florentine sphere of in-fluence and then followed the destiny of the Gran Duchy of Tuscany.

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