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Pieve a Ripoli, the story of one of the oldest churches...

The church of San Pietro a Ripoli is one of the oldest in Italy. In a Charlemagne document from 774 it is remembered as...

The “Montesone cross” amongst the myth of the Holy Land and...

On a rocky outcrop in the middle of the woods, facing a panorama of incomparable beauty over the countryside that slopes down to 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...

The “Cala-mai” (The ‘Never-Descenders’), those paratroopers from Ponte a Ema…they hardly...

“The Cala-mai have come down to liberate you, the Florentines," was written in the leaflets dropped by paratroopers of the 1st Squadron of the...

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...

Antilla, Mompillo and a love story behind the origin of the...

Following the course of the Isone stream, after the Antella cemetery, you come into a valley just below San Donato in Collina which still...

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...

Massimo Casprini tells us all the secrets of Bagno a Ripoli

They will be called “Racconti in breve” (Short Stories) and will be stories, anecdotes and trivia which will tell us about the Bagno a Ripoli...

Once upon a time there were the washerwomen of Grassina, Rimaggio...

In Bernardo Machiavelli’s Memoirs, father of Niccolò, it is read that the "On July 19, 1475, I gave Ghirigoro di Jacopo da Rimaggio my...

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...

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