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Il Visciolo

Type: House • Bedrooms: 2 • Sleeps: 4 • Catering: Self-catering

Price per week: 600.00 €

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Period Price
Low season 600.00 € Change currency
Mid season 900.00 € Change currency
High season 1000.00 € Change currency

Unlimited broadband Internet access is included.

  • The holiday house is weekly rented but we prefer multi-weekly or montly rental. Those listed are max prices for a single week rent. Special discount for long stays, please ask.
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Il Visciolo/Ref: 6373
Owner Name Mr Carlo C.
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Home description

The house is the ideal place for those who want to enjoy the village life and move away without a car to visit Florence and other tourist places. Honestly the house is less advisable for those searching for an isolated villa in the middle of the country.

Location

San Casciano Val di Pesa - is on the highest of the hills separating Val di Pesa from Val di Greve, on Via Cassia.

Since Roman times it was a post station or "mansio" on the hill just before the descent to Florence begins. The earliest written documentation dates back to 1043.

It is a parchment conserved in the nearby Abbey of Passignano. However, it seems that the place was inhabited since the 7th century BC, as shown by several Etruscan finds.

In the 12th century, San Casciano was a little village clustered around the church. Because of its location and its proximity to Florence, it was frequently devastated.

The first time was in 1312, when Emperor Arrigo VII freed Florence from siege and occupied San Casciano. It was very badly damaged, as the emperor sent his brother Baldwin of Luxemburg, arch bishop of Treviri, to occupy and destroy all the castles in Val di Pesa and Val di Greve.

Not much later, it was again destroyed by Castruccio Castracani, at war with Florence. Finally, in 1343, Gualtieri di Brienne, duke of Athens, having conquered Florence, became aware of the strategic importance of the town, and had a first circle of fortifications built.

Work was interrupted, however, when Brienne himself was driven out of Florence. Only some time later did the Florentine Republic resume the building work, that was completed in September 1356.

From that time on, San Casciano resisted the armies of the times thanks to its impregnable fortress. After the first half of the 16th Century, once the State of Tuscany has been consolidated under the rule of the Medici, San Casciano acting as a sentry for Florence and the gates, towers and ramparts were gradually demolished. The castles in the surroundings were turned into spacious villas where rich Florentine families spent their leisure time. The Della Robbia furnaces opened, and did a lot of work in Casa-vecchia, San Giovanni in Sugana and other churches and villas.

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