Monday, September 3, 2007

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Piagnaro - Pontremoli (MS) 1000 Miles



The Company Piagnaro is a free association, non-partisan and non-denominational character of amateur sport, recreational, cultural and non-profit lucro.Si is incorporated on May 7, 2005 through the initiative of several individuals and the following associations: Confesercenti Pontremoli , ACLI Pontremoli, Pontremoli PRO LOCO, CRAL Endas Hospital, Lunigianese Legal Studies Center, City of Pontremoli, Lunigianese Music Association. The CDP offers the following purposes: to rediscover the historical, cultural, folklore and amateur sports, to develop relations, exchanges between the groups in times of cultural and historical events, folklore and amateur sports; start wide propaganda of ancient traditions in the medieval schools develop knowledge of folklore and all expressions of popular culture, organizing events of any kind as to direct the use of free time for cultural, recreational, social and sports and support and encourage social activity aggregation between individual members and members to stimulate and develop the best feelings and education of all.



L 'association is including different groups:



- Sbandieratori


- Musicians


- Arce


- Armigeri


- Dancers




Sbandieratori
The presence of the municipal flag of the troops was a sign of pride and citizen expressed a need tactics, as a reference point during the fight. The exchange and movement of the flag recalls the moment of danger, when you have to prevent the enemy if they get control. If the bishop, though young and strong, can be overcome, the flag must be saved. All this today and was the appearance and the show, which result in a party atmosphere and the protagonist is a youth martial without hardness, elegant, noble and strong, firm and vibrant. The Group of "flag-wavers of the Society of Piagnaro" is capable of having eight flag bearers working in costume, can play singles, pairs, trios, etc. ... until the small and large teams.



LINK

http://www.compagniadelpiagnaro.it/

Comments

The group has a technical and a professional, high-impact and is distinguished by the young age of its members, which also give an irresistible touch of fun and dynamic association. The costumes are beautiful and well made, as well as flags and musical instruments. The event Medievalis is well maintained even though in my opinion would necessarily involves some shortening of the party with dancing, too many, too long and almost all the same. Rated 10 +

Personal note: I am a kind and exquisite group of people are happy with our friendship

Sunday, July 1, 2007

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History
The race was conceived as a single race and organized by the counts Aymo Maggi and with the help of the eclectic Renzo Castagneto with excellent skills' organization, in response to a failure to allocate Brescia, their hometown, Grand Prix of Italy . Along with Franco Mazzotti first lender. He chose a path in the form of "eight" from Brescia to Rome and back, a distance of about 1,600 km (about a thousand miles, hence the name). Only after the end of the Mille Miglia was decided, given the enormous success, to repeat this wonderful madness. In subsequent editions, the track was modified to thirteen times. The first edition went March 26, 1927, with the participation of seventy-seven teams, only two of them foreigners (behind the wheel of the small Peugeot 5HP spider). Twenty-two cars were forced to retire and fifty-five to finish the race. The winners - and Joseph Ferdinando Minoia Morandi - aboard a OM, completing the course in 21 hours, 4 minutes, 48 \u200b\u200bseconds and 1 / 5 the average of 77.238 kph.
The race was interrupted in 1940 due to the participation of Italy in World War II
. The race resumed at 14.00 on June 21, 1947 with the victory of Romano Biondetti paired with the mighty and powerful "Alfa Romeo 8C 2900B <> Touring Berlinetta" in 16 hours 16 minutes and 39 seconds. But if he ever won the records by the famous British driver Stirling Moss that in 1955 covered the 1600 km in 10 hours and 8 minutes behind the wheel of a Mercedes 300 SLR number 722. It is said that his navigator Denis Jenkinson did a survey of path, noting the features on a roll of paper four feet long that he used to manage Moss during the race. In
1 957 a fatal accident at Guidizzolo in the province of Mantua , and caused by the bursting of a tire, cost the life of Spaniard Alfonso de Portago , the American navigator Nelson, and eleven spectators (including five children). The race was finally suspended. Following the Enzo Ferrari , manufacturer of the car involved in the incident, underwent a process that lasted several years from which he emerged unscathed. The Automobile Club of Brescia
accomplished An attempt to give continuity to the running and
1 958 in 1959 and 1961 , opposite the insistence of the authorities which does not apply the necessary go-ahead for racing to road speed, organized three Mille Miglia editions yet known but disputed according to a formula that included short stretches of alternating speed long-haul transfer to travel at an average speed of 50 kph (with penalty for delays). The Mille Miglia
made famous worldwide brands of car Gran Turismo
, such as Alfa Romeo , Lancia and Ferrari . From 1977 the name was inherited from the Mille Miglia Mille Miglia Storica, a parade and regularity rally of vintage cars manufactured before 1957 that remembers a true reenactment. The race takes place on a route Brescia - Rome and back close to the original, starting and finishing at the same point in the city where the race took place in the traditional (then Viale Rebuffone today Viale Venezia).

Links
http://www.millemiglia.it/













Monday, April 23, 2007

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Liberation of Greve in Chianti - The road of the heart

History

The July 25, 1943 was Sunday, a beautiful summer day. The film was gremitissimo Greve A. Boito, when some villagers, smiling shyly, entered the room, announcing the fall of Mussolini. The programming was interrupted, the lights were lit and people poured outside to comment on the news they had all the hope in the soul of an early end to the war. The next day he appeared at the windows and the Tricolour appeared on the walls written in praise of the king, freedom, Badoglio and written a political nature that were made immediately clear, at the invitation of the prefect, by the City. But it was not prevented from chipping fascist emblem on the existing town hall, schools, housing beam, on the war memorial. Were also removed iron beams etched in the public fountains. "After the fall of the regime - he wrote Don Corrado Raspimi, pastor of Upper Girdle, in his Chronicle of the emergency - the people you gave ... in spite of the famine by growing to 8th September. On the evening of that day he felt a great clamor around the hill. I looked - Sir priest, sound the bells, there is peace! Half an hour later the church was packed: it begged me to sing the Te Deum-(...) there shortly after the street, laughing, singing, shouting and jumping like crazy. A few days later, motorcycles, bicycles, horses mounted, riderless horses, men in uniform, soldiers without rifles, some with one, even those with two, ran about on all sides. It was all planned by the tumble and the collapse of all the lies told by May 24, 1915 to Today ".
Meanwhile, the mountains around Greve were forming groups of partisans. Particularly large was settled in a few refuges in the Montemoggino. Massif Mount angelfish. grevigiana particularly hard for the community was the summer of 1944 for the passage of the front on the ground. As for the troops Germanic had three reprisals in Pian d'Tree;'s farm in Dudda Querceto; Good evening to the Villa the bench. In the first there were four killed in combat partisans and 18 hanged, shot 7 in the second and third 5.
retaliation for the latter, only after the liberation of the Municipality of what the family knew and mourned their loved ones: Corinth Burgassi, Faithful and Ferdinand Vettori, Christmas and Livio Picaneti Contri. In addition to these 12 other fallen in the past for weapons between 24 and 28 July. On the morning of July 24th the first Allied patrols entered in Greve. Two days later settled, on the premises of the cooperative among the workers of New Italy Greve, the Committee of National Liberation (CLN) composed by Charles Baldwin, Emily Suckling. Forese Donati, Tertullian Favalli, Gino Mori and John Mugnaini. Resumed promptly service all municipal employees, the banks were reopened, post offices, collection and municipal treasury, the agricultural consortium and many shops. The population, previously evacuated, returned en masse in the country, because the day before the church bells had sounded uninterruptedly for about half an hour, with intervals of five minutes. The four bells were rung only on the proposed Don Alessandro Ferretti and Carlo Baldini, because very few people were left in the country and most importantly almost all invalid. At the sound of the bells of the churches of Greve said those parishes that had been liberated, the Germans heard the sound of this release. At the urgent invitation of the captain of the Scots Guards RW Burkley, military governor of the area, met 27 days ago the CLN to describe the mayor. The Assembly decided to designate the dott.cav. Italo Stecchi, the town pharmacist and former mayor of the City several times before fascism. The name was submitted, by delegation, the governor by Gino Mori and Carlo Baldini. Thus began the new democratic life in the community: the front steps still to be Head Hare Lyrics, Spedaluzzo, Monte angelfish, which is only about half of the municipal territory had been freed, the capital was still subject to shelling, which lasted until 29 the same day every month. (From www.goticatoscana.it )



The road of the heart 2007

To celebrate the 63 anniversary of the liberation of the city, 20 to 22 April 2007 was a great gathering of antique military vehicles and placed in uniform. Hundreds of people and at least 90 vehicles from all over Italy and abroad have gathered to commemorate historical events, visit "places of memory" and recall the entry of troops into the square of the town ripped apart by bombs.

Monday, April 16, 2007

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2007 Battle of Pian Tree

The "22a Assault Brigade Garibaldi Sinigaglia (by Alessandro Sinigaglia, the" Victor "GAP Florentine commander, killed on 02.13.1944) was formed in early June '44 passed half of the month already had a staff of about 400 men.
On June 20, following a raid, the Germans discovered that the Pian of the homestead of the family tree Cavicchi served as a center for young people who wanted to join the ranks partisan. Several teams of "Sinigaglia" tried several times to break the siege and about 50 recruits more than half escaped.

The partisans had killed 20 German soldiers and 21 prisoners made to the cottage, including even Aaron Cavill than 12 years and his grandfather Joseph, while Norberto Cavicchi annumerava among the fallen partisans. They were taken further downstream in Sant'Andrea and hanged. Two of them, two different occasions, managed to escape.
After this the "Sinigaglia" suffered major defections and most of the recruits saw in the last days filming the way home, they were less than 150.



The war memorial

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The facade of the Basilica of San Lorenzo

T ra in November and December 1515 Leo X, the Medici family, pope for two years, decided to return to solemn visit to Florence, and on this occasion had the idea to hold a contest to give the facade of San Lorenzo, the unfinished basilica designed by Brunelleschi sponsored by the Medici family since the foundation (in 1421), and place Member for their burials. The proposal was in a time when Michelangelo seemed to turn special attention to the problems of architectural composition, hence perhaps the artist's perseverance in the course of events that led him to be the sole author of the final project. They were with him at the beginning, Antonio and Giuliano da Sangallo, Jacopo Sansovino, Baccio d'Agnolo, the Raphael.
seems at first to Michelangelo was only entrusted with the task of supervising the sculptural decoration, and proceeded to enforce Jacopo Sansovino, Baccio d'Agnolo a wooden model for the facade, much appreciated at the time, and now lost. During the year 1516, the contention for a prestigious commission so touched moments of bitter struggle, until, in autumn, Michelangelo obtained by Leo X in charge for the architectural design of the facade. Finally freed of its competitors, he ingeniously solved the problem that always haunted the architects of the Renaissance, when classical orders were applied correctly to the facades of churches irregular-shaped basilica: hid, and he forget the exterior of the church lay behind the scene a beautiful mansion.
Michelangelo's design of the façade across three main stages, which can be identified in three of the drawings collection of the Casa Buonarroti, 45 A, 47 A, 43 A. It is now clarified the latter sheet is translated in all likelihood in large wooden model of the Casa Buonarroti, which reflects the transition from ITER project executive, set in the contract between the artist and Leo X January 19, 1518. On March 10, 1520 Michelangelo himself records the termination of the contract, even if only as regards the supply of marble, and the material so far collected is intended to pave the church of Santa Maria del Fiore. But the activity of the site continues, albeit slowly, and if they have certain evidence until April 1521.
In that year died Leo X, after the short pontificate of Adrian VI ascended the papal throne in November of 1523, Clement VII, who was also a doctor, who clearly more than once his intention to resume work on the facade. Only his death (1534) sold out forever any possibility of achieving the great and troubled project.


On the occasion of the celebrations in memory of Anna Maria Luisa de Medici, Electric Palatine, and the last descendant of Medici, was the one who gave the wonderful heritage of his family to the city and not to Lorraine, who ruled at that time Florence was the illuminated facade of the basilica, with images of Michelangelo's original design and was given a column designed by the artist, from the quarries of the Alps Apuan, kept at the Foundation for Art Teseco "Pisa.


Tuesday, February 27, 2007

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Poppiano (FI)

The Poppiano Castle, of Roman origin and which derives its name from the gens or Poppeia Papia, was an imposing medieval building with a triple around the walls built around the 'one thousand years as a fortress to defend the external Firenze.Feudo before Alberti, since the thirteenth century belonged to the Guicciardini, who thought they were originating Popian Castella, because in his book De Ugolino Verino illustrat. Urbis. Flor. to Book III, talking about the lineage Guicciardini, repeated the tradition of those who assumed the original Cotesta Poppiano, singing like this:

human opinion alii primas sedes in Flumini
Weighs
Ac Popian trahant veteres castles colonos
Nobilis et prisca east longeque potentia
DURAT.

However, as highlighted by an act of heritage 'of 1199, in the family for at least nine centuries. Castle for its dominant position on the validity of the Pesa and Elsa, was the scene of important historical events.

I n this long period was the center of many events related to the history of Florence: the raids of lunches Castruccio Castracani the castrum of Poppiano by troops of Giovanni Acuto (John Hawkwood, the famous leader of Ventura English) in 1369 after the Battle of Ditch Armonico, near Main. The castle was destroyed in 1529 by Maramaldo during the siege of Florence, Francesco Guicciardini as recalled in his Memoirs. The Castle as it stands today, while preserving the ancient grandeur, and 'the result of the restoration based on existing images in frescoes of Guicciardini in other villas in Val di Pesa and Val d'Elsa, after the damage caused by an earthquake in 1812.
If the violence of the siege and war did not spare Poppiano, yet it was a recreation center for people like that Vincenzo Borghini used to meet from here with Florence's most educated of the time, as evidenced by correspondence with the Vasari, since the Spedale degli Innocenti had a villa where Spedalinghi were going to spend the autumn.

I Guicciardini since 1200 had an important position in political, social and economic development in Florence and in 1416 Peter G. was named "Count Palatine" Emperor Sigismund of Luxembourg. They participated actively in public life in Florence where they supply 44 "priority", 16 "Standard-bearer of justice" and 12 senators.
L personality to 'pre-eminent of the family was Francesco, the historian (1483-1540), after have covered important assignments with Doctors - Ambassador to Spain, Governor of Modena and Reggio, head of the League of Cognac - retired 'in Florence and the stern where he wrote most of his work' note, "History of Italy."


to Poppiano Originally there were two churches: St. Blaise and St. Nicholas, later merged.
The church with two counts became prioress in 1689: the presence of two arms of the portal Guicciardini shows the patronage of this family on the church that they came with liturgical furnishings. At the same periods can be traced back to the restoration of the church. Other
noble family, originally from Poppiano were Ridolfi Piazza whose arms is carved on a marble ciborium beside the high altar adorned with a beautiful wooden crucifix.

Friday, February 9, 2007

Why Sand On Shuffleboard Table

Volterra (PI)



HISTORY:
The ancient city of Volterra was founded on a hill of 545 meters separating the Val di Cecina and is from Val d'Era about 80 km from both Florence and the sea. Away from the coast and from pirate raids but dominant on the surrounding areas, this position made it strategically important town since ancient times. The first human settlements date back to the Neolithic, but the real development came up area in the seventh century BC with the peoples Etruscan, which christened the place " Velathri ", making it one of the twelve most important centers of their civilization. The village at the time it reached an estimated population of around 25,000 units - exorbitant when you consider that currently the city has 13,000 inhabitants - and was locked inside a wall more than 7 km long, which made him impregnable and was able to grow and develop a thriving economy.

The independence of the village lasted until the third century BC, when the whole of Etruria was conquered by Rome. There followed centuries of quiet, until the period of the barbarian invasions, when the country was occupied by Heruli first, then the Goths and then by the Lombards, who administered until almost the end dell'VII century. In the thirteenth century

Volterra assumed a communal structure, paving the way for construction of the monuments which still constitute the historical and artistic heritage.
In the fifteenth century came in the sights of Medici Florence by Lorenzo the Magnificent, to give Volterrani a tangible sign of its supremacy and the Sienese a specific warning, had it enlarged the old fortress by building a mighty fortress New , still monumental building that dominates the city. In 1530, in a last desperate hope to regain the lost freedom, Volterra rebelled against the Florentines at war with doctors, with the latter, but was captured and sacked again by Ferrucci. Restored the Medici in Florence, Volterra lost its independence and became one of the city in the state which followed the fortunes of the Medici, Grand Duke, but starts with the domain Volterra and its territory for a certain period of slow but progressive decline that will continue until in the eighteenth century.

the late eighteenth century. and the first half of the nineteenth century. there are increases in agriculture, trade in alabaster and a decisive improvement in road links and the urban village is the subject of a general adaptation and adjustment.
In the second half of the century, after the unification of Italy, apart from some renovation of the spaces within the center old to make way for the offices of the New Kingdom, the most important intervention is the creation of the psychiatric hospital (1888). Finally March 13th, 1860 with 2315 votes, 44 missing and 78 votes against Volterra its annexation to Italy together, paying its price in blood is building up national unity in the 1915-18 war and the struggle of resistance against fascism. In the past, the territory's economy was mainly based on the extraction of copper, alum, of ' alabaster and salt filler that were worked in manufacturing and exports. Today, with the emigration took place after World War II, the industry is based on small craft businesses to alabaster, on the extraction of rock salt on some metelmeccanica and chemical industry, the resident population from 17,840 units in 1951 fell to 13,800 in 1991.

HIGHLIGHTS:

Piazza dei Priori - The land on which city was built during the heart of city life was attributable to the bishop, who exercised its jurisdiction, it regulated the commercial activity, collect taxes and identified with the bishop's lawn, lawn originally the king. And the town, just built, try to substitute these functions in the bishop's authority, dictating, in turn, laws and statutes. Around the displacement Prato began to rise the towers and the first homes and on the vast plain was planted, using German, an elm, under which is gathered regularly consuls and elders to discuss and legislate.

Palazzo dei Priori - Built in 1239 by Maestro Riccardo as the inscription near the entrance, has the form of a parallelopipedo. The facade, covered by three rows of mullioned windows, which are inserted between the units of the municipality, the Volterra cane, is the floral emblems of the Florentine magistrates robbiani garlanded the XV-XVI sec.
the sides, the two pillars surmounted by two marzocchi sorreggenti shield Florence were added in 1472, when the palace became the seat of the sheriff, to symbolize the Florentine dominion over the city. The building is surmounted by a pentagonal tower that after the earthquake of 1846 was the current crown architect Mazzei, who worked in buildings other interventions on the square. Inside, decorated with the coats of arms of Florentine captains, are kept a Crucifixion and Saints, fresco by Pier Francesco Fiorentino, who also painted the Crucifixion in the antechamber of another mayor, while the Virgin and Child is attributed to the Raffaellino Garbo. In the hall of the Major Council, decorated with inscriptions and coats of arms in the nineteenth century. Stands out to canvas the fresco of the Annunciation in Saints Cosmas and Damian and St. Just and Ottaviano di Jacopo di Cione and Nicolò di Pietro Gerini. In the right lunette canvas depicting the Wedding at Cana by Donato Mascagni, XVI century .. In the adjoining room that the Board: panel depicting Persio Flacco di Cosimo Daddi, reported a monochrome fresco painting depicting St. Jerome, two small paintings depicting the Adoration of the Magi by Giandomenico Ferretti (XVIII sec.) And the Virgin Birth of Ignatius Hugford, a canvas Job of the Donato Mascagni. In the false-: sinopia existing fresco of the Annunciation in the council room: around, fine wood postergali inlaid in the fifteenth century., from Monte Pio.

Praetorian Palace - Consisting of several buildings and reduced the current state in the nineteenth century., Was the seat of the Podestà and Capitani del Popolo. On the tower, agreed to be one of the oldest in the city, on a shelf is the figure of a pig from which the popular name given to the Tower. This would be a tribute to the people of Volterra to an animal so common and so important in the surrounding countryside for food and for the economy, especially in the Middle Ages (though are still many dishes based on wild boar).

Piazza San Giovanni - If the Piazza dei Priori is the town center since the age of political life, the Piazza di San Giovanni is the center of religious life . This separation between the spaces of the temporal and spiritual power plant is a characteristic of medieval urban planning of many cities, especially in Tuscany.

Duomo - Dedicated to ' Assumption, the cathedral was rebuilt around 1120 on a pre-existing church dedicated to Santa Maria. The main facade is divided horizontally by a frame in braids and flowers and is divided vertically into three sectors with strong pilasters Lombard-type square. The insertion of the marble entrance to the bezel inlaid with geometric, material consists of layers of Roman, to be carried forward to the thirteenth century. when the whole factory was enlarged and adorned, according to Vasari, by Nicola Pisano . The interior, while retaining the structure in the plant and the Roman form a Latin cross with three naves, the continuing renovations have taken place over the centuries, offers, notably on the line of the aisles, something the late Renaissance. Its structure is grafted to the back of the Palazzo dei Priori.

Baptistery - Opposite the cathedral stands the Baptistery, an octagonal shape, built in half of '200, in which houses a beautiful baptismal font by Sansovino. The surprising thing observed from outside the baptistery is the similarity with that of the dome of the church of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence, it seems that was just Brunelleschi in the fifteenth century to give advice on its construction, after Having designed the cover of the cathedral of Florence.


Fortress - built on the highest point of the hill of Volterra, this imposing fortress consists of two buildings, the Old Castle and New Castle, joined together by a double wall, topped by a gallery called The Way of Ronda.
The oldest building dates back to 1343 and is characterized by a semi-elliptical tower, called the Female , attributed to the Duke of Athens . The New Fortress was instead made to raise by Lorenzo de 'Medici was placed on the site where the Bishop's Palace, destroyed by the Florentines during the sack of 1472. It 's a huge square fortress from which rises the Mastio, a high tower nearly double the four corner towers. Vera and fortified town, is in excellent condition thanks to recent restoration, but can not be visited because it is home to a prison.

Doors - The medieval town of Volterra was built in the thirteenth century. Begun, the rising of the century during the consular regime, such as rebuilding and strengthening of the Etruscan walls, was methodically continued until 1254, when the Florentines Costituto imposed by force of arms the people and government of the Guelph party. In 1260 the regime Ghibellines, who succeeded to the Guelph, found the vulnerability of the defense system of Volterra due to the perimeter of the loop too long Etruscan hired forty masters of stone until the city was not completely walled: begun in the fall of 1260, the work was completed within a few years. Ben 8 doors open in the city:

Gate Arch, Etruscan, included in the application of the ancient walls of the fifth century. BC, has without doubt its preservation to its use in the medieval walled town in the XIII century .. The construction of this door seems you should report to three different periods: the sides consist of rectangular blocks such as walls and contemporary, while the strings in tuff seem a reconstruction came after the siege of Sulla (80-82 BC). Uncertain location of the three heads placed at the exterior decoration, which could evoke the sacrifices of lives in the preservation of new development, or a memory of the custom of putting up the gates of the severed heads of vanquished enemies. Perhaps it could be Jupiter and the Dioscuri, or the Capitoline Triad, Jupiter, Juno and Minerva.

Selci door, single arch, was built in the sixteenth century. replacing the oldest, also known as the Sun, remained underground for the expansions of the Old Fortress in the fifteenth century .. Door-to-Flints branched roads to the territory of Siena. Very interesting commemorative plaques placed beside this door, remember that the presence of Volterra in almost every act of war since the unification of Italy in the resistance struggle against fascism.


Marcoli Gate, built perhaps in the fourteenth century., Put in direct communication with the monastery of St. Olivetan Andrea (Seminar today) and served as a convenient access to the farmers of the surrounding countryside.

Gate Docciola, built in the thirteenth century. connects the city with the surrounding valley, rich in water and lush vegetation. The port retains the characteristic structures of the filler ports of the thirteenth century. inside and outside with a bow and a round arch with a pointed arch within which it takes place within a low arch or silly.


Porta Fiorentina, formerly known as St. Angel to the nearby church dedicated to the archangel, offers the same architectural structure of the filler door, even if you can see obvious alterations made in the sixteenth century. when the door during the siege of 1530, was hit in the tower above where it was enclosed in a munitions depot. From this port starts the road to Florence, through the Age, Castagno, Gambassi, and Castelfiorentino.


Porta San Francesco, also known as Santo Stefano Pisa, because through the Val d'Era led to Pisa. It is the only gate that retains traces of frescoes on the ceiling, as we know, were present in all the gates of the city. Inside, right, is carved cane Pisan units of measure slightly longer than Volterra, engraved on the facade of the Palazzo dei Priori.

Porta San Felice, built by one simple arm bar that supports two disjoint sections of the castle walls, doors anomalous compared to other cities, has combined the chapel of the saint with the belfry, and the background of the horizon, which offers endlessly to the sea, under a very picturesque making it one of the most charming places of the city.

Porta Diana, outside the medieval city walls, in the direction of Val d'Era, beyond the cemetery, is what remains of Etruscan this port. The weather failed to destroy the door that connected the city with the main Etruscan necropolis.

Acropolis - is a vast area in Piano di Castello where you can read through the various layers of the birth and development of the city, from prehistory to the fifteenth century. Appear visible the foundations of two buildings identified as temples A and B separated by a road intertemplare that surrounds and defines in part the place of worship.
remains of houses of the Hellenistic period, a complex system of tanks, including the so-called swimming pool, central streets and medieval towers rest on older foundations, the endless landscape stretching from the Apennines to the Tyrrhenian Tues make this place one of the most interesting and pleasant city.

Roman Theatre - built in all the Augustan Caecina family, the type of Greek Odeon, taking advantage of the slope of the hill, is reached from the area of \u200b\u200bthe hole (the church of San Michele "site-hole") by means of scalars, which is no longer visible to the continuation of the medieval walls on the perimeter wall of the auditorium summa. Stay with the plan through three major steps covered esedre where it fell to criptoportico IMA auditorium, and then where can clearly see the rows of seats in key areas of tufa and Pignano " itineraries Scalaria " that the steps in accessing the stone of Montecatini.

FESTIVITIES AND TRADITIONS:

ASTILUDIUM - Comes from the Latin Middle Ages (HASTA = flag = LUDUS game party), hence the modern name of Astiludio for an event created to revive the people of Volterra, but especially to the many tourists ancient traditions of the game with the flag of which Tuscany is rich, a demonstration in choreography that combines competitive character-order to evoke an ancient feast, with a moment of encounter and friendship between the flag bearers of Volterra and those of other cities Italian can boast similar traditions.
the first Sunday of September at 15.15 exactly all the bells ring simultaneously and in districts That's when the four marches from many ports of the medieval town square in the head to create the tournament.
Volterra Walking on the first Sunday of September seems to be going back in time six centuries between soldiers and archers, knights and ladies, heralds and standard-bearers, multicolored flags that circle accompanied by drum rolls and the sound of trumpets, in a setting truly unique.
http://www.sbandieratorivolterra.it/

The Gift of Spring - has ancient origins, even referring to a pagan ritual where, on the occasion of the vernal equinox, the people were celebrating the passage of Volterra the dark to light a tribute to nature's awakening from the long winter break through the beautification of the city with garlands of spring flowers. With the Gift of Spring, the Gruppo Storico Sbandieratori the Easter Monday of all years, plans to offer to tourists who flock to the city during Easter, the commemoration of this ancient pagan ritual, with a hint of folk and joy. The event takes place in the morning to 11.15 the historical procession, composed of fifty of people in medieval costumes, moves by the door and Flints, covering the entire historic center, arrives in Piazza dei Priori, where he founded the flags of the carousel. Many choreography accompany the showing of the flag, some of which are based on historical events that took place in Volterra medieval and Renaissance architecture.

Volterra AD 1398 - It 's a unique opportunity to dive, as if by magic, the magic atmosphere of the Middle Ages , one of the most beautiful cities of Tuscany. On this occasion, in the historical center of Volterra, a medieval city will be rebuilt in 1398 with markets, craftsmen, musicians, jugglers, commoners and nobles. The city is animated by music groups, theater, jugglers, set in an urban setting that still retains traces of passato.La well aware of the event takes place from morning to night in the historical center of Volterra, is rich in the remains of an ancient past, back in the year of Lord 1398. Dame and serfs, knights, craftsmen, doctors and merchants, nobles and common people, monks and jugglers, musicians and artists bring to life a day of celebration in a Tuscan town at the end of the fourteenth century. The city districts revive the old crafts. The hospital of St. Mary Magdalene will be rebuilt on its original site. Farm animals, the mint, musicians, acrobats and entertainers in fourteenth-century costume, accompany guests up to the final rounds to 24 which closes the festival. During the day in various places in the city, held Scenic and music. http://www.volterra1398.it/

Alabastro - Volterra is a town of Tuscany, unique and unrepeatable, where the changing landscape, so the alternation of the seasons helps to enhance the aura of mystery, solitude and sadness that the romantic pervades.
E 'a city of stone, because the streets are stone and stone are its towers and buildings of stone and its walls are austere. Everything is made of a yellow-gray stone, the benches, which often emerge shells of rare beauty. And the stone, alabaster, is also his craft.
The origin of the name "alabaster " is certainly and perhaps derives from the Egyptian city of Alabastron, once famous for the manufacture of pots and jars for preserving the fragrance. http://www.comune.volterra.pi.it/flex/cm/pages/ServeBLOB.php/L/IT/IDPagina/84

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Friday, January 26, 2007

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Monteriggioni (SI)

HISTORY: If you

had to make the name of the place more than any other sums up the characteristics of the medieval village, the choice probably would fall on Monteriggioni. Its configuration is, in fact, the most significant example of the "land side" of the whole territory of Siena and among the largest in Tuscany.
This village is located 25 kilometers from Siena, along the road that was once known as the Francigena. Until the thirteenth century did not exist as a village, it was just a farm owned by Mr. Hill of Staggia. The Republic of Siena, however, realized the importance of his position and decided to buy it to build a defensive stronghold that was an obstacle to the enemy advanced Fiorentini. It was 1203 and, ten years later, construction began on the raising of the walls, completed in 1219.

front doors the village, still existing, were two: Porta Romea
or free port (left) facing East towards Siena, and
Porta Fiorentina and Porta San Giovanni on the other side, towards Florence. The fortification
allowed to retain possession of Siena Monteriggioni but of course did not stop attempts to attack Florence. The first of these took place in 1244, a decade after the second and third in 1269. But the village always managed to resist, creating a reputation as an impregnable fortress. For about three centuries later, there is no news of further fighting, which resumed in the sixteenth century but with a new attack struck from Florence and successfully rejected. A fate that was repeated in 1526 when attacking was the pontifical army, allied with the Florentines. The town probably never would have fallen out if the defeat had not been a betrayal, that of Captain John Zeti that April 27, 1554, for personal gain, the fortress surrendered to Florence without even fighting.

Monteriggioni then passed to the Grand Duchy of the Medici, to be sold over the centuries in various families of Siena: from Goliath to Hammer, the Visconti, the Fabbroni, and the Daddi in 1704 to Accarigi, the last descendant of which the family spent the annuity Griccioli (still owns some possessions in the rural district). Today, inside the ancient walls, according to the latest census, 43 people living . A paradise where time seems to have maintained the slow rhythms of a distant past, surrounded by the colors of the landscape of Siena, that makes for a unique corner of Tuscany.

HIGHLIGHTS:

Piazza Roma - The only place in the village, which is reached by both doors. The space has been paved with stones in the sixties from the nearby quarries Rosia, while in the past had not surfaced. Rather broad and evocative, the outside is surrounded by gardens and vegetable gardens (very important in the past to allow the survival of the population in case of siege) and is buildings that overlook the most part have been adjusted to accommodate the tourists.

Porta Romea - rises to the base of a tower on the outside you can see a plaque with the inscription: "In the year of the Lord 1213, the second call, in March at the time of the Lord of Guelph Ermanno Paganello by Porcari of the Podestà of Siena, Pisa from the Lord Arlotto, wise judge, and Hildebrand of Usimbardi chamberlain of Siena, the castle of Monteriggioni was begun in the name of God and thus completely enclosed by walls and expenses incurred in their work by people of Siena. "

Porta San Giovanni - opens the curtain and defended one of the towers of the fortified perimeter. In both ports is sure the presence of shutters or thick wooden doors covered with iron, which were operated by pulleys and the two inputs in fact still have the marks of the hinges and holes caused the closing of the stakes. The Porta San Giovanni you can also see the signs of rivellino , another defensive structure of rectangular shape placed in front of the door and also features a drawbridge or a second door.

Pieve di Monteriggioni - the square overlooking the church of Santa Maria Assunta, mixed Romanesque and Gothic style, built in 1219. The church has a large with single-aisle vaults where you can still see the sign of the old trusses. The nave ends with a square apse vault, where he placed the wooden choir dating from the XVI century. The polychrome façade is built with travertine and sandstone. The portal is surmounted by an arch on top of which are decorated in tile. The bell tower dates from the eighteenth century, erected by Mecacci using old material.
Inside the church you can admire two tabernacles of the fifteenth century, a picture of Madonna by Lippo Vanni, a wooden cross and the church bell donated by the Republic of Siena in 1298.

Way of the walls - E 'can get on some stretch of the road, from which opens a breathtaking view of the surrounding area.

FESTIVITIES AND TRADITIONS:

First of July to remember the Medieval Festival "Monteriggioni's towers crown , now in its fourteenth edition. All information on http://www.festadimonteriggioni.it/

Then, October, in honor of Our Lady of the Rosary , protector of Monteriggioni, the village will welcome guests for a great feast in the square front of the church, the stalls displaying crafts, local pottery and ceramics, while residents offer food and wine the place, including chestnuts.

the evening of Christmas Eve held a candlelight vigil instead. Participants are distributed torches that illuminate the procession as it moves to the nearby Abbey Abbey Island, where Mass is celebrated. At this torch the castle walls are entirely lit by torches to oil.

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Thursday, January 4, 2007

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Cavalcade of the Magi - January 6


Since 1417 has documented the existence of a company or confraternity of lay people, dedicated to Saint Magi, which had among its tasks is to organize every three years (since 1447 every five years) a festive representation , called "Festa de 'Magi", and was then paraded through the streets the "Cavalcade of the Magi." This consisted of three different parades, who gathered in front of the Baptistery and they continued together until the Basilica di San Marco, with songs and prayers worshiped the Child Jesus.
In the Company of the Magi, also known as "The Star", were part of the major components of the Medici family. The fresco by Benozzo Gozzoli, commissioned by Cosimo the Elder in 1459 for the chapel of his palace in Via Larga, offering visual evidence of the most famous "Ride", which appear in family members, including Giuliano and Lorenzo. The company probably paid for this bond with the deletion, which occurred immediately after the expulsion of the Medici from Florence in 1494.

Subsequently, the force of the Magi lost until it was abandoned. The initiative of the Opera del Duomo, in collaboration with the Association "Il Fiorino" and under the auspices of the Archdiocese of Florence, thus helping to revive one of the expressions most joyous and life of Renaissance Florence. Since it was restored, the representation has become one of the largest re-enactment of the Epiphany at the national level, thanks to the active involvement of folk groups of the City of Florence and other towns of Tuscany, through their associations and set out on foot horse, have expanded and enriched the event. Today

Ride, consisting of the Magi and a procession of characters, from Piazza Pitti in the early afternoon of 6 January, and after crossing the Ponte Vecchio, arrives in Piazza della Signoria, Florence joined the bandits. The parade goes by Calzaiuoli until you reach Piazza del Duomo, where the Magi presenting offerings to the Christ Child in the Living Nativity set in the churchyard of St. Maria del Fiore. After reading a passage from the Gospel of Matthew (2, 1-12) and greetings from the Archbishop of Florence and President of the Opera, the festival of the children of the Diocese.