by Pedram Katanchi | May 20, 2020
Ancient Roman rural district, later home to the ancient parish church of San Martino, which rises further downstream. In the perched village, there is the cylindrical tower and the castle, which was most likely an ancient Roman pago. In the Middle Ages it assumed...
by Pedram Katanchi | May 20, 2020
A rural small hamlet placed on a tiny terrace on the side of Monte Pulce (the Flea Mountain). The village holds several traces of the XVI and XVII centuries, especially beamed portals and windows, together with a typical “tower house”, a dwelling shaped like a tower...
by Pedram Katanchi | May 20, 2020
Situated in the domain of the Lucido and Tassonaro valleys, you can enjoy suggestive panoramas. The fiefdom was a thriving artisan center, first under the Malaspina family of Fosdinovo and Castel dell’Aquila di Gragnola and then from 1418 under Florence. The...
by Pedram Katanchi | May 20, 2020
Torsana is said to have been a land of “scalpellini” (from the tool “scalpello”, chisel), and this would explain the large amount of reliefs and bas-reliefs present in the area. The town is located on the slopes of the Groppi di Camporaghena and Torsana...
by Pedram Katanchi | May 20, 2020
The village still shows truly original architectural and environmental features. Noteworthy is a tower house with a lowered arched underpass and massive corner blocks.
In addition, some portals, one of which can be attributed to the 16th century. An ancient...
