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The places of Sovicille – Tegoia

From this village, located at an altitude of 490 metri, you can admire a magnificent panorama. In the thirteenth and

Stigliano offers three small hamlets: Poggiarello, Palazzo and Poggio. In the twelfth century the village was dominated by the Ardengheschi

In the early centuries of the Middle Ages Sovicille was a castle of great importance. The existence of a village

In the Necropolis of Portone there are visible two underground tombs dating back to the period III-I century BC. The

In the Middle Ages, the name Pilli indicated a wide area, occupied by small villages and three churches, all included

Only a few walls of its ancient castle are still present on a hill overlooking the village that developed next

The name comes not, as sometimes imagined, from pagan festivals in honor of the God Bacchus, but from hordeum, which

The village still offers some traces of its medieval structures, including an arched stone door. The town is mentioned in

Villa Cetinale was built by the Chigi family, in the mid-seventeenth century, by the architect Carlo Fontana. Near the entrance