The Villa Il Gioiello or Villa Galileo is the home where the great scientist Galilei spent the last part of his life, confined to house arrest by the condemnation of the Holy Office of 1633. The villa...
The superb residence, one of the symbols of the Renaissance culture, has reached us through many events and today it presents the stratifications, the signs and the memories of its transformations...
La Quiete villa (the Quietness) named after the fresco called “La Quiete che domina i venti” painted by Giovanni from San Giovanni in 1632. Former owners were the Orlandini family, then Villa La...
The villa had belonged to the Salviati family from the 15th to the 17th century. It is immersed in a 19th century garden. Sculptures and terracotta tondi by Rustici are all over the park. After a long...
The castle has already been mentioned since the fourteenth century with chronicles which attribute the property to the Visdomini family, but only a few ruins had remained before its nineteenth-century...
The Fortress of San Martino stands on a hill that dominates the built-up area of San Piero a Sieve. Works started thanks to Cosimo I dei Medici at the end of the Sixteenth Century under pressure from...
There are three names by which this place is known: Loggia del Porcellino (from the famous bronze animal - actually not a piggy but a wild boar - a copy of the seventeenth-century original by Tacca in...
Properly named Società Ricreativa L'Affratellamento di Ricorboli, the Association was founded as a Mutual Aid Company on July 1st, 1876 and has been in its present location since May 1888. The theatre...
The Teatro della Compagnia is one of the most recent theatres in town, designed by Adolfo Natalini, who transformed the cinema hall into a theatre. Inaugurated in 1987, it became the permanent seat of...
