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20 bedrooms hamlet, 1500 m² Monteriggioni, Siena (province)
Main Features
garden
Description
MEDIEVAL MONTERIGGIONE CASTLE The Castle stands in a dominant position on a 236-meter hill which is seen Monteriggioni, is still surrounded by a mighty wall with cylindrical and corner statues which runs a ramp that leads to the space in front of the access portal to the courtyard, a articulated central courtyard with superimposed arches, the result of the sixteenth-century renovation as well as the portal that allows access and the brick church located next to the fortified house. Its existence is traced back to the 11th century when there was a castle with a courtyard of the Lambards, built not far from the nearest castle of Monteriggioni to control the nearby Via Francigena. Passed to the bishops of Siena and then to the monks of Abbadia in Isola during the 12th century, It was destroyed by the Florentines in 1158 but the settlement was built. In 1265 right close to the current Via Cassia was founded a hospital from Ghinibaldo dei Saracini, from which the name of the town is, husband of the Sapìa cited by Dante (Purgatory - 13th canto). From here it would have observed the defeat of its citizens during the battle of Colle di Val d'Elsa. Saracini had stately rights on the castle and received great market profits, countervailable in the purchase of numerous surrounding farms. The castle was then sold to the Municipality of Siena who sent there in 1271 a lawyer dependent on its Podestà and the Ghinibaldi hospital inserted in the jurisdiction of the large Hospital of Santa Maria della Scala di Siena. In the 16th century the castle passed to the Piccolomini. The current building, organized around a beautiful central courtyard, consists of elements from different periods, with a predominantly of structures that are the result of a fifteenth-century reconstruction. Although several times restored, it clearly denotes its medieval origins in the massive and compact size around the courtyard, renovated in the sixteenth century, in the masonry and in the sewer of many openings. The small external church appears to have the name "Chiesa di San Ruffiniano" and houses a marble stone belonging to the thirteenth-century hospital complex located on the Cassia. From the same documents it appears that the lapide column that divides the two-hole of the bell tower belonged to this complex. Inside there is a spectacular relief, partly macabre, with the performance of 4 angels and a child, it is eight-nineteenth and is still not clear what it wants to represent: it is located behind the altar of the chapel not accessible. The castle is today in disuse and abandoned. ENERGY CLASS "G" EPgl, nren ≥ 175 kWh / sqm. year REQUEST: RESERVED NEGOTIATION FIMIANOS LUXURY REAL ESTATEwww.fimiani.itsegreteria@fimiani.it 055.28.42.59 - 379.1227014 Energy Class: G EPI: 175 kwh / m2 per year
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Details
- Property TypeHamlet
- ConditionTo be restored
- Living area1500 m²
- Bedrooms20
- Bathrooms8
- Energy Efficiency Rating
- ReferenceMEDIEVAL CASTLE MONTERIGGIONI
Distance from:
Distances are calculated in a straight line
- Airports
- Public transport
- Highway exit570 m
- Hospital7.9 km - Rugani Hospital
- Coast58.9 km
- Ski resort23.0 km
What’s around this property
- Shops
- Eating out
- Sports activities
- Schools
- Pharmacy2.3 km - Pharmacy - Farmacia Politi Daniele
- Veterinary5.0 km - Veterinary
Information about Monteriggioni
- Elevation274 m a.s.l.
- Total area99.73 km²
- LandformInland hill
- Population10011
Contact Agent
Fimiani Real Estate
Piazza G. Vieusseux, FIRENZE, Firenze
+39 055484259 / +39 3791227014
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