It climbs along the hill, Arezzo, there where once the city etrusca rose. And' a small treasure from the ancient soul this town in Tuscany that puts together history, culture, art and philosophy of the good way of living. To walk between plazas and suburbs without hurry is a true pleasure: an exploration in the search of hidden beauties and the discovery of monuments and buildings of epoch. Everything is to course of leg, comfortable to reach in few minutes.
It is worth to delay among a path and the other to gather the spirit of this born city etrusca and grown as free medieval commune, so flourishing to entertain one of the first ones "university" European. Don't leave to be escaped the magic of the particular ones, must be crossed her/it with careful look: the inside courtyards of the ancient buildings, the portals, the balusters in beaten, reggifiaccole.
Entering from the door North, on the old boundaries that immediately surround the city the Cathedral he meets, with the fresco of the Maddalena of Peter of the Francesca and the glass door policrome of the Marcillat. You continues then toward the Church of St. Domenico that guards the splendid Cross painted by Cimabue. There is a little far the House of George Vasari (artist of Five hundred), completely, and immediately after the Museum of Medieval and Modern art that welcomes the paintings from the XIII to the XIX century.
To few footsteps, not to lose, he/she asked her of Saint Maria Gradi, of taste manieristico, of the SS. Announced, notable example of our rinascimento and her "Abbey" with a pretense dome painted by Father Andrew Pozzo in the Seven hundred one from the perfect effect of perspective.
Returning to the Cathedral and moving himself/herself/itself this time toward the Lawn and the Fortitude medicea can be enjoyed of an extraordinary sight. Under, the city and, around, the necks that surround her/it. From here long street of the Pileatis you/he/she can be gone down for reaching building Pretorio with the façade rich in heraldic coats of arms, the Loggias of the Vasari, the ruins of the Building of the Captain and the Great Plaza, an unbelievable but harmonic admixture of styles and foreshortenings.
And' here that on first Sundays of the month give us appointment the most ancient Fair of the Antiquariato of Italy. But not only. Twice a year the spectacular medieval tournament of the Merry-go-round of the Saracino is organized, a historical rievocazione from the ancient origins, been born as exercise of military training. The secular recalls struggle between Christian west and Moslem east.
The tournament developed for the whole age Modern important social functions inside the urban community. You jousted, in fact, both on the occasion of the visit of great personalities (ruling, principles), both to celebrate particular civil (carnival, marriages) recurrences.
A spectacular demonstration indeed that takes life every year to Arezzo on next to last Saturdays of June in nighttime (Merry-go-round of St. Donato, patron of the city) and the first Sunday of September in the afternoon (Merry-go-round of September). They are protagonists of it the four ancient districts of the city.
The continuous walk to the Parish of Saint Maria, Romanesque masterpiece characterized by an infinity of small columns, the one different from the other, and from the bell tower in stone stop well 59 meters. Nearby, house Breams, a true museum of the antiquariato, full of curiosity to be discovered one to the time.
It moves then us to Plaza St. Francis, a particularly fascinating angle.
Entering the homonym church can be admired one of the absolute masterpieces of the world art: the frescos of the cycle of the "the Vera's Croce Legend" that Peter of the Francesca painted in this basilica in the '400. They are still so many the things not to let him escape before healthy Arezzo: the Museum of the gold, in the Florentine street, testimony of an ancient art that the modern city has known how to preserve and the Archaeological Museum, devoted to Cheerful Cilnio Mecenate, "inventor" of the patronage, where the crater of Euphronios is preserved, unique masterpiece of the ceramics of the You century to.C. And still, the amphitheater Romano, the Church of Saint Maria of the Graces, as soon as out of the city, the Romanesque parishes of S. Eugenia to the Bagnoro and of S. Paul in St. Pole.
And when it is the time of the lunch, there is not that the embarrassment of the choice. The Inns in the center are a lot of. All also offer delicious menù and a special paper of the wines for the connoisseurs.
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