History
of the Village and Villa Certano.
Certano is enjoying a revival of its past, with tourists coming
here to relax within its walls and amidst the lovely, scented nature.
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Villa
Certano
The Villa Certano estate extends along the sunny, open hillside
about 7 kilometres from Siena. Inside the estate, on top of
a hill, is the ancient rural village with its stately manor-house
dominating the tufaceous, sandy, browny-yellow terrain, typical
of this area, where olives and grapes have been cultivated for
centuries. Villa Certano has belonged to the
Baldassarrini Macinelli family for centuries
and during the Renaissance it was the property of the famous
Sienese painter and architect, Lorenzo di Pietra Vecchietta,
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The
Old Village
The
village is made up of rural buildings which, today, have been
restored and refurbished for use as fully-furnished holiday
apartments, offering relaxing stays under the shady Lebanon
cedars and secular oaks. Adjoining the villa and enclosed
between other buildings is a small pre-Romanesque church which,
according to records, dates from the 8th century AD, during
the reign of the Longobard King Liutprand.
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Vineyards
The
surrounding land is used for cultivating the Sangiovese, Canaiolo,
Trebbiano and Malvasia grapes, which mature on the sunnier
slopes of the hills. Today, the grapes are still hand-harvested
for the production of Chianti dei Colli Senesi DOCG, Vin Santo
and Barricato.
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Nature
Tourists who come here for a holiday and a rest far from the
noise of the city, can re-live moments of the past amidst
the sounds and scents so typical of the rural life of bygone
times.
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