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Our luxury accommodation in Castiglion Fiorentino and Cortona,
Tuscany belongs to the Bernardini family.
The Castiglion Fiorentino (Val di Chio in general) accommodation has three spacious apartments which
have been restored with extreme care, maintaining the original nature
of every architectural detail. All have kept their subtle
elegance, having been renovated with period antiques and tasteful
furnishings yet satisfying the needs of modern living.
A BRIEF STORY OF CASTIGLION FIORENTINO
Castiglion Fiorentino lies at the centre of a triangle formed by important cities such as Florence, Siena and Perugia. Due to the overall infrastructure, town walls, and building architecture, for many years scholars considered the town to have been established in the late medieval time frame. More recent excavations, however, have found the remains of an Etruscan city wall (ca. 4th century B.C.) underneath the current Piazzale del Cassero, and have discovered the remains of an Etruscan temple under one of the town's churches, la chiesa di Sant'Angelo, which was built in the twelfth century.
Documents from the tenth century have referenced a town named "Castiglione" in the feudal property of the Marquis of the Saint Mary Mountain. During the eleventh century, the town became a part of the Diocesse of Arezzo.[4] From the twelfth century until about 1290, the town was known as Castiglion Aretino, and was closely associated with the nearby city of Arezzo. About 1290, the city of Arezzo was defeated by Florence, and Castiglion Aretino became part of the Florentine Republic. Arezzo and Siena joined forces against the Florentines in later years and reconquered Castiglion, which was then fortified under the direction of Bishop Guido Tarlati, Lord of Arezzo. Following Tarlati's death in 1336, Florence again gained control of Castiglion, until 1344,[4], when the city of Perugia gained control of the town, which was renamed Castiglione Perugino. In 1369 the townspeople revolted against the Perugians. and by 1384 the Florentines seized the town and bestowed its current name, Castiglione Fiorentino.
During the fifteenth century, Castiglion Fiorentino suffered from repeated outbreaks of the plague, blamed at the time on the marshy areas surrounding the city. At the dawn of the sixteenth century, Siena, led by Pietro Strozzi, gained control of the area, holding Castiglion Fiorentino unil 1654, when the Medicis of Florence again regained power over the region. For the next two hundred years, the Medici Grand Dukes ruled the city, until in 1765 the Lorena Dukes gained power. The Lorena family encourage the reclaimation of marshlands, leading to a period of economic and population growth for Castiglion Fiorentino. From 1800 to 1814, the town was garrisoned by Napoleon's troops. Several years after that, the town joined the Tuscan Grand Dukedom, where they remained until 1861, when they were annexed to the Reign of Italy by King Vittorio Emanuele II of Savoia.[4] Military activity during World War II damaged part of the town center as well as much of the surrounding countryside.
A BRIEF STORY OF CORTONA
A visit to Tuscany is a dream travel to most everyone. Tuscany as a
region is closely related to many crucial moments of the cultural
education of all Italians: the language, literature, history and arts.
Tuscany was the home for artists such as Piero della Francesca,
Michaelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Luca Signorelli, Vasari, Raphael,
Cellini and many others. Beautiful art is on display everywhere, in
small towns, in the most humble of hamlets, in the countryside
sprinkled with abbeys, castles and villas. The beauty of nature which
quite often seems to reflect or anticipate the enchantment and
enthrallment of the countless masterpieces of art.
The above is only one of the many definitions expressed by several
artists and scholars at the sight of this town, whose ancient origins
keep getting dated earlier and earlier with each new archaeological
discovery.
It is certain that Cortona was an Etruscan town that even today still
offers many important historical remains: the outer walls, the bronze
lamp from the 5th century BC, the majestic tombs of noble families with
the latest discovery, the Melone II of Sodo, dating back to the 7th
century BC. This is the only tomb from Etruria that shows decorated
sculptural elements.
Cortona, one of the most evolved medieval city-states, is full of pure
renaissance forms such as the Calcinaio church, Francesco di Georgio
Martini’s masterpiece. Cortona was the hometown to many famous
painters, from Luca Signorelli to Pietro Berrettini da Cortona to Gino
Severini.
The last little secret about Cortona: some ancient historians suggested
that Ulysses was buried here! It is only a legend, but what an
extraordinary one!
A BRIEF STORY OF AREZZO
Arezzo (Latin Arretium) is an old city in central Italy, capital of the province of the same name, located in Tuscany. Arezzo is about 80 km (50 miles) south-east of Florence, at an elevation of 296 meters above sea level. In 2001 the population was about 91,600 people.
Arezzo is set on a steep hill rising from the floodplain of the Arno. In the upper part of the town are the cathedral, the town hall and the Medici Fortress (Fortezza Medicea), from which the main streets branch off towards the lower part as far as the gates. The upper part of the town maintains its medieval aspect despite the addition of later structures.
Arezzo may have been one of the twelve most important Etruscan cities, the so-called Dodecapolis. It was described by Livy as one of the Capitae Etruriae (chief Etruscan cities). Etruscan remains establish that the acropolis of San Cornelio, a small hill next to that of San Donato, was occupied and fortified in the Etruscan period. There is other significant Etruscan evidence, parts of walls, an Etruscan necropolis on Poggio del Sole (still named "Hill of the Sun"), and most famously, the two bronzes, the "Chimera of Arezzo" (5th century BCE) and the "Minerva" (4th century BCE) which were discovered in the 16th century and taken to Florence. Increasing trade connections with Greece also brought some elite goods to the Etruscan nobles of Arezzo: the krater painted by Euphronios ca 510 BCE with a battle against Amazons (in the Museo Civico, Arezzo 1465) is unsurpassed.