Castellina in Chianti was an important center since Etruscans. Then it became a Roman possession and, in the Middle Ages, it assumed an important role for the difence of Florence. Moreover it became part of the Lega del Chianti and held out for many sienese attacks.
Because of this Florence built fortifications and made restorations all around the village. Filippo Brunelleschi was one of the people whom worked on the restoration. At the end of the war, the govern of Castellina in Chianti were given to the Medici family and from military garrison the village became a rural district made as a metayage farm. The village became a municipality in the 1865 and during the Second World War it became stage of the transit of the front, which caused destructions and damages.
Nowadays the village is the perfect place for turists. It's beautiful, peaceful, full of shops, wine bars, pubs and evocative alleys. Castellina in Chianti is consider one of the pearls of the Chianti area thanks to its distinctive architecture. Important elements that you must visit once in Castellina in Chianti are:
- the Stronghold of the XV century, now site of the new Archaeological Museum
- the San Salvatore church dated back to the sixteenth century, with some great art works
- the Via delle Volte, a picturesque route along the oriental walls once spaced out with military pinnacles now gone.
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