£395

0203 824 8839

Reference No:

672944-

Deal Ref:

268064

Depart:

Uk departures

Destination:

Italy

Dates / Times:

Between 08/08/2017 & 28/11/2017

Duration:

3 nights

Rating:

Room Type:

Superior room

Staying In:

Il Fondaco Del Moro

Description:

The fortified hamlet of Oliveto was probably founded around 1385, when the Florentine Republic had just conquered Arezzo and its county. Unlike all of Valdichiana which was a marshy land and subject to malaria, this land, was "healthy and fecund" as the Florentines used to define it.
The Governor of the village, encouraged also by the Florentine Guelfi, was obliged to fortify the walls with two watch towers.
Although the Saracini family exists today only in the crests on the external side of the Oliveto castle gates, they were, no doubt, the protagonists since the early Middle ages.

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