The prehistoric lake that was born in Antella (300 thousand years...
If in the Pleistocene Epoch of the Quaternary Era, we looked out from the spur of Montisoni or, even higher, from Montemasso, instead of...
The Medici, a Cardinal and the Lappeggi villa (which was to...
In 1667, the Grand Duke Cosimo II gave a gift to his brother, Cardinal Francesco Maria Medici. He assigned him the Lappeggi villa. The...
Odoardo Beccari and those African plants at the Bisarno Castle
In Pian di Ripoli, in the middle of a forest of modern buildings, appears an impromptu building with Guelph battlements. This is the Castle...
Maybe not everyone knows that … the first King of Italy...
That summer night in 1819 Gaetano Tiburzi retired into intimacy with the young Regina (Queen), the daughter of settler Bettini who worked the farm...
Wool, bread and cement: all the productive evolutions of the Gualchiere...
The Gualchiere di Remole are an important medieval mill that has preserved its impressive building structures, located a few kilometers upstream of Florence on...
There was once upon a time “the little window”: how precious...
A large coat of arms of the Venturi in polychrome ceramic with the inscription Belmonte 1847 stands out on the facade of a building...
The Case San Romolo and those miraculous apparitions…
Case San Romolo (San Romolo Houses) is still a small conglomerate lost in the woods near Villamagna, but in the nineteenth century it was...
The Marquis Feroni amongst the slave trade and that exile in...
Many will have wondered what is that small hut on the wall at the corner of Via della Nave and Via delle Sentinelle.
The wall...
The castles of Villamagna and medieval telegraphy
In ancient times, the hills overlooking the Arno Valley on the left bank of its course were crowned with castles and towers.
They formed a...
The 1895 earthquake which hit Grassina and Antella
At 20.55 on 18 May 1895, in the area between Grassina and Antella, a strong "roar" was heard - as some witnesses reported. A...
