The best cycling routes around Marciano Della Chiana

Splendid farmhouse-villa overlooking the Valdichiana, visited during the Chianina (historic cycling event of Marciano della Chiana), with fantastic refreshments

Beautiful village, now a private hotel facility

Road with a no-entry zone leading to a military zone

The Travertine Quarries of Serre di Rapolano are a historic area, famous for the extraction and processing of travertine, a limestone used since Etruscan times and renowned for its color variations.

I had a fatal accident on a downhill ski run back in the 90s. After that, helmets became mandatory, if I remember correctly.

Muzzicone is famous for Florentino grilled steaks.. Best around!

Obelisk to Giuseppe Garibaldi, Castiglion Fiorentino The monument to the fallen in Piazza Giuseppe Garibaldi: a symbol of all the Risorgimenti.

Chiesa di San Francesco, Via Alessandro Codivilla, Castiglion Fiorentino The church, overlooking the square of the same name, was built by the Franciscans in the mid-13th century on an existing 12th-century structure, first dedicated to San Salvatore and then to San Leonardo. The building has a Romanesque-Gothic sandstone façade featuring a slender mullioned window surmounted by a small rose window. On the lunette of the portal, one can admire a terracotta depicting Saint Francis teaching the turtledoves how to breed, a work by Antonio Brogi, a local ceramist from the year 900. The interior, according to Franciscan custom, consists of a single nave, closed off by a short transept with three cross-vaulted chapels. The roof is gabled. Altars from the 16th and 17th centuries lean against the walls, and one can admire works by Francesco Morandini known as "il Poppi" (Crucifixion), Giorgio Vasari (Madonna with Saints Anne, Sylvester, and Anthony), and Salvi Castellucci (Invocation of Saint Matthew and Annunciation to Saint Anne). Note the third niche on the right, now empty, which once housed a Saint Francis by Margarito d'Arezzo. Below, protected by a grille, was the Holy Cross, a 13th-century reliquary of exceptional value. Both works are now on display in the Pinacoteca di Santa Maria Novella. Also of great importance are the wooden crucifix, painted in faux bronze by Giovanni Patriarca, and a wooden statue of Christ Captured in the Garden of Olives, created in 1651 by Sallustio Lambardi of Lucignano, which is carried in procession by the Society of Saint Anthony on Holy Tuesday. The choir, in Pietra Serena, whose decoration consists of panels, dates from 1546. The two central panels depict Saint Michael and Saint Francis, with floral motifs on the sides. The whole is supported by two large double-voluted shelves and plant motifs. On the left side of the church is a rectangular cloister, rebuilt in the early decades of the 17th century on a 13th-century portico, and characterized by a double loggia in the Tuscan style, with a circular fountain at its center. Under the arches of the lower tier, you can admire the frescoed lunettes depicting scenes from the life of Saint Francis, a seventeenth-century work by Pelliccione da Colle. Inside the cloister, you can see the tombstones of many important figures from Castiglione who wished to be remembered here. On the right side of the church, the oratory of the Company of Saint Joseph was built in 1560; in 1785, the company was dissolved and the oratory was sold to private individuals. Text / Source: Turismo Comune Castiglionfiorentino https://turismo.comune.castiglionfiorentino.ar.it/contenuti/242169/chiesa-san-francesco