In the outskirts in Florence

Allow to catch you and to conquer from the suggestive and fascinating environment, from a spellbound landscape and full of mutable colors during the seasons. The necks in Florence, will surprise you for the culture and the traditions that you/they have known how to preserve. You will discover the ancient shops where the glass or the ceramics you/he/she was worked, artisans that with their esperianza they make the vases and the terrecottes only. The territory is also amazing for the taste, him possomo to taste some big wines as the Wine Chianti Classico, but we can taste even on a bruschetta the oil extravergine of olive.

Goatherd and Situated Limit partly on the slopes of the Montalbano, the territory of the Commune typically extends him in a hilly landscape. Cross him/it a net of runs of trekking that from the ridge it issues him to reach Limit or to continue up to Goatherd.

Castel Timignano, the ancient name of Castelfiorentino, in the Middle Ages it represented a rampart of the Florentines against the senesis, today it is a devoted town to the agricultural activity and the small one and it mediates industry.
Here he/she lived, between the XII and the XIII century Saint Verdiana, the tradition narrates us that it was confined in a cell for trentaquattro years together with two serpents.

Castellina in Chianti is an ancient feud of the family of the I Thresh, Castellina passed in the XV sec. under the dominion in Florence that encircled her/it of boundaries making her/it become one of the most important capisaldis against Siena.

Southern layer of the famous zone of the Chianti, the original nucleus of Castelnuovo Berardenga goes up again to the IX century, when it was a feudal complex with the name "earth berardinga." Of his/her ancient order a fourteenth-century tower and a line of boundaries it stays only.

Risen on a verdant hill of cerri, from which the name Cerreto, the country called cerreto of Pebbly shores up to the century XI, when it became a feud of the accounts you Drive, subsequently selling him/it to Florence. the family of the Physicians was a great protagonist reallizzando the Villa Medicea that naque as residence of vacation and hunting.

The territory of Certaldo, that understands areas of geologic and naturalistic interest, is devoted to a touring of natural and cultural character, and he/she understands four itineraries for trekking, mountain bike and horse, united to quadrifoglio and connected by a great ring of 130 kms, with as many runs in the surrounding communes and with a "stings it covers" in the place Fiano that offers possibility of pernottare and to sojourn.

The territory of the Chianti, with his to follow him of hilly landscapes of incomparable beauty, is found in the heart in Tuscany. Separated between the provinces in Florence and Siena, during the Middle Ages you/he/she was bitterly contended among the two rival cities up to when, in 1555, the Physicians imposed their hegemony on whole Tuscany.

The actual government 222, have been always, and it are still it an important street of communication that connects Florence to Siena that more markedly maintains today still a rural character of the street Cassia.

Placed in the inferior Valdarno, on the left of the Arno. And' here that in 1260 the ghibellinis, after the victory to Montaperti, they held the "parliament" for which Florence, defended with vigor by Farinata of the Ubertis, you/he/she was saved by the destruction. Today it is a town industrialist, famous for the industry vetraria that boasts a secular artisico-handicraft tradition.

The economy of Fucecchio mainly founds him on the production of famous and sought after pelletteria (shoes and purses) both on the national market that on that international. Also in the agricultural sector, it dresses again a notable importance, for the production of products typical oil of olive, the wines Chianti and the sparkling wines. The last Sunday of May, it develops him to Fucecchio the Palio of the Regions, a palio similar to that of Siena, with a historical parade and a run of horses climbed on to hair.

I center vinicolo and of vacation, densely surrounded by cultivated knolls, during the Middle Ages (halves the XII century), Gaiole he develops as an important merchant center along the road for the Valdarno.
Numerous the castles and the parishes in the outskirts, testimony of a prosperous agricultural and commercial activity.

After millennia of agricultural traditions and artisans today the town extends to orient toward the tourism, particularly that thermal. In fact, I am really the thermal waters that, together with the territory, Gambassi Terme is addressing toward the tourist activity that is her more congenial. The water of Pillo has been being known for centuries for its virtues; defined by the experts "a summation of curative quality", introduces the medical ownerships of the best sources.

Placed to the intersection of the roads that you/they connected Florence to Siena and the Valdarno Superiore to the Valdelsa, in the Middle Ages, Heavy it was a small dependent installation from castle of Montefioralle that developed him since the XIII sec. as "mercatale" of the principal castles of the zone.

Big suburb from the typical conformation to raggiera, already inhabited in epoch etrusca and Roman, during the Middle Ages it was tied up to the political and economic stories in the near Florence. The true center propeller of the community imprunetina was the Parish of S. Maria, risen already perhaps in the VIII-IX century, consecrated January 3 rd 1060 from cardinal Umberto of Silva Candida.

Marradi is too far not an absorbed suburb in the green one of the booschis from Florence. the town is famous for the chestnuts, but also to have given the native to the poet Dino Campana, another famous character it is Vincent Castaldi, six times Italian champion of chess from 1936 to 1959 and International Teacher of chess.

The medieval suburb is situated to the west extreme of the province in Florence, to the border with that of Pisa, he/she offers one of the most suggestive panoramas in Tuscany. Sets on a hill to 350 ms. on the level of the sea, horse is found to among the valleys of the Egola and the hilt. The castle took name from Allone of Lucca, being quoted in ancient papers as "Mons Allonis", then correct in "Montaione."

Montelupo is situated in the val of it weighs, where the homonym river meets in the Arno, the suburb has ancient origins. Some excavations effected on the territory have allowed the recovery of prehistoric traces. And' is an installation etrusco, while the rests of some villas testify its Roman epoch. its birth goes up again to the tall medioevo, when the Florentine republic, in 1203, he/she built you the Castle, around which the urban agglomeration developed him.

The commune of Montespertoli is situated on the hills in central Tuscany, of the zone of the Chianti. The country is situated to around 25 kms. from Florence and it is found in central position in comparison to the tourist centers in Pisa, St. Gimignano, Siena and Volterra. The territory of Montespertoli has had in passed, an important role for its road order that allowed Florence to develop its commerces through the street Volterrana.

The country is situated on the hills that occupy the initial line of the valleys of the it Weighs and of the Arbia, for an extension of 80,56 square kilometers; it touches the maximum altitude of the Querciabella (Mountains of the Chianti) Mountain with 854 meters. Its territory enters the zone of production of the Wine Chianti Classico. The commune is found in position of border between the Florentine territory and that senese, Radda in Chianti had often involved in you trouble historical stories.

St. Casciano in Val of it Weighs it is a commune of the province in Florence placed on the hills among the valleys of the it Weighs and of the Heavy one, to around 15 south km in Florence and to 40 north km in Siena. It enters the zone of production of the Wine Chainti Classico, but also for the oil extra virgin of olive and for his/her agricultural products in general.

Scarperia is an ancient suburb founded by the Florentines to build you a garrison. famous for the traditional production of knives, an activity' initiated in the century XVI, to the beginnings of 1900 it occupied 300 employees in the 46 shops and that today you/he/she is reduced to alone 6 exercises. In the '400 the Physicians' family continuing the politics of the control of the territory continued the control of the Republican Magistracies.

Tavarnelle is found on the road that conducts in Siena and it crosses the famous Street Palace. On the territory we find numerous churches and parishes of the territory. We find the church of S. Lucy to the Borghetto (XIII sec.) an ex Franciscan convent in Gothic style that preserves a valuable Crucifix of fourteenth-century school and an Annunciation of Blacks of Bicci. Not too far Tavarnelle, left the street Cassia, he arrives in the called place Morrocco.

The city of you Win it is absorbed in a green country, among vineyards and olive-groves where it produces him of the good wine and appreciated oil, the suburb it is found on the slopes of the Montalbano, an enchanting thick hilly between the provinces in Florence and Pistoia, in the heart in Tuscany, not too far from the greatest cities of art.

A way to discover the territory through the navigation on the map of the province in Florence.

You consult the map of the Abbeys and the Convents
You consult the map of the Commune in Florence