Luca Contile was born in Cetona in 1507 (more likely than in 1505) and died in Pavia in 1574. A fallen noble, a descendant of the ancient Ildobrandini family, counts of Cetona, he was sent while still a child to

The year was 1705, the fief of Camporsevoli was firmly owned by the Marquis Giugni, when a strange legal question arose between the latter and the Grand Duke of Tuscany. Giovanni Andrea Morganzi, a vassal of Camporsevoli, killed his brother Morganzio

It is not possible to reconstruct the origins of Bruscello in Piazze. Some testimonies recall the performances of the 1920s in the old town square, packed with peasant-actors in stage costumes, musicians and the audience, mostly coming from the surrounding

The main feature of the Belverde area is the tall-trunked holm oak, with specimens of considerable size located on the large blocks of travertine in the caves. The presence of holm oak seems to date back to around 4,000 BC, when

Born in Piazze on 25 March 1869. Died in Piazze on 27 September 1935. Returning after his daily visits to his patients, at one o'clock in the morning near his clinic, Dr Alberto Rinaldi was attacked from behind and repeatedly hit

Born in Cetona on 27 February 1865. Died on 19 May 1942. The image of Carbonetti, parentage unknown, vagabond and wanderer, is imprinted in the local collective memory. It tells of a man of uncertain age, dressed as a Garibaldian with

Lionello Arduino Balestrieri was born in Cetona (SI) on 12 September 1872, into a family with a very modest economic situation, to Torello Balestrieri, a mason from Cetona, and Agnese Bassi, from Santa Fiora. In 1886 the Balestrieri family moved to

Monte Cetona is an isolated mountain in the extreme south of the province of Siena, between Valdichiana and Val d'Orcia. Once called Monte Piesi, it extends with its northern slopes to Castelluccio di Pienza, near the springs of the Astrone

The Montagna di Cetona is located south of the province of Siena, on the borders with Umbria and Lazio. 1,148 m above sea level, it separates the Siena – Radicofani basin from that of the Val di Chiana. It is

The Val di Chiana, mentioned as Clanis Aretinum by Pliny the Elder in his Naturalis Historia, is a valley that extends 60 kilometres from the Arno river near Arezzo to the north, up to the Val di Chiana Romana near