Historical and Touristic Notes

The territory of the Commune of Castiglione d’Orcia, already frequented in Etruscan and Roman times, is characterized by urban structures and architectural complexes that date back prevalently to the Medieval and Renaissance periods. The municipality, in addition to the main town, includes other villages and a series of smaller agglomerations within a heterogeneous environment ranging from the rolling hills of the Val d’Orcia, cultivated with wheat, olive trees and vineyards, to the chestnut and beech forests of the Amiata.
In these lands, among the historical, artistic, environmental and naturalistic emergencies, a series of unique and evocative landscape itineraries unfold. The villages of the municipality of Castiglione d’Orcia are located in a strategic position on the Via Francigena or Romea that in the Middle Ages connected Canterbury to Rome.
At the bottom of the valley, on what was once the ancient road, there are still some ancient postal stations, including “le Briccole”, an ancient hospice for pilgrims and travelers, mentioned by the Archbishop of Canterbury Sigerico who passed there in 990. The Countess Matilde of Canossa also stopped there on her way back from Rome on September 17, 1079 and there Saint Francis had the vision of the Madonna Poverty, accompanied by Chastity and Obedience.
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Accomodation structures