Car Hire Figline Val D'arno - Mini guide to Figline Val D'arno
Coming from the streets of European cities, you are now ready to take a respite and claim your space in Tuscany’s exhilarating and quiet countryside.
Figline Valdarno awaits to rejuvenate the tired and tireless tourist in its verdant hills and picturesque valleys. This lovely Italian town is located at the center of a triangle framed by Sienna, Arezzo and Florence, a dot rising between the vineyards of Chianti and the River Arno.
Let’s trace back its beginnings from the first settlements during the Stone Age testified by fossil finds excavated in the area.
We pass through the whole gamut of construction, consolidation, invasion, destruction and rebirth of a town.
Then through the Roman Age, Florentine Republic, Ghibelline attacks, Medici family control, the Lorena’s Dukes, the reign of Napoleone Bonaparte.
What is they left behind are buildings that witnessed thru the centuries the constant changing of its social, economic, political and cultural landscapes. They are: San Francesco Chiesa (Church of Saint Francis), San Biagio Chiesa (Church of Saint Biagio), Palazzo Pretorio (Praetorian Palace), Logge del Vecchio Spedale Serristori, Theatre of Garibaldi Bonaparte, Piazza Ficino, 1200, elegant town square with porticos surrounding it, Serristori Hospital, the S. Cerbone Villa , with an ancient ambience in its pharmacy displaying Majolica vases that are so well preserved, Francesco, 1229, has a stucco Madonna with Bambino painted by the Ghiberti studio, Collegiata di Santa Maria, 1257, housing precious works of art.
Figline Valdarno has survived and lives on for us weary tourists to just enjoy its air and picture-perfect sceneries. Twenty minutes by train from Florence or car hire.
With a picnic basket packed with strong cheese, delicious bread, and a bottle of Chianti wine, you are now all set to make beautiful memories in Tuscan country. Just like in the movies!
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