Category The surrondings

7 Mar

THE HISTORICAL-MONUMENTAL HERITAGE IN THE TERRITORY

Villa La Rocchetta Elegant seventeenth-century building with Medicean forms, characterized by the presence of the terrace garden, typical of the ancient agricultural organization with examples of crops that have now fallen into disuse. Belonging to the Brunaccini family since 1580, La Villa maintained their property uninterruptedly until 1801. Around the Villa, a large property was […]

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3 Mar

LANDSCAPES AND NATURALISTIC FEATURES

The protected area of ​​Poggio Ripaghera and S. Brigida, in which the Agriturismo “LE FONTI” is located, extends for 817 hectares, incorporating within it, a land rich in social and natural history, as well as in the artistic and monumental heritage. In particular, the area includes the southern and western slopes of Poggio Ripaghera (914 […]

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3 Mar

THE CAMMINO DI DANTE

The celebrations of the 700th anniversary of the death of Dante Alighieri (1321) have made this cultural hike, so far little known, one of the most attractive historical paths both at national and international level. It is a cultural, artistic, historical, philosophical and spiritual journey between the ancient cities of Florence and Ravenna, in the […]

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3 Mar

THE PATH OF THE GODS

A few hundred meters from the LE FONTI farmhouse, there is an ancient Roman road, built in 187 BC by the Consul Caio Flaminio, to create an important trans-Apennine connection between Bologna, Florence, Arezzo and Rome, called Flaminia Militare at the time. The name of “Via degli Dei” (Path of Gods)derives from the fact that […]

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3 Mar

CULTURAL HIKES

The land that includes LE FONTI farmhouse was structured in the past by a system of residential and rural settlements of ancient origin. In the Middle Ages, with the development of the feudal system, based on forms of subsistence economy, settlements on medium and high hills, used for grazing and for forest products, were privileged, […]

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