The project is built on a simple and powerful idea: this territory holds a layered, rare, often hidden history. Driving through it is not enough. A weekend with a weather app open is not enough. To understand Mugello, you have to walk it. You have to give it time to speak. And you have to be willing to listen, without already knowing what you expect to hear. That’s how 14 routes were created.
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Over the centuries many important people have had a connection with the city. Among them Frederick II of Swabia, who lived his childhood here; Dante Alighieri, because the first copy of the Divine Comedy was printed in Foligno and St. Francis of Assisi, who frequented the city that was the scene of some fundamental episodes of his life.
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The Convent of San Francesco in Lucca was one of the first settlements after his death and the site of a known and respected studium.
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The central theme of the exhibition is the color white. The display will remain open to the public until January 31 in Gubbio, after which it will move to five municipalities in Umbria along the Ceramic Road, concluding finally in Faenza.
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A different and original point of view to discover its cultural heritage is that of the many famous people to whom the city is linked, for various historical reasons. A city on the plain, central from the point of view of communication routes and dynamic from an economic perspective, home to major fairs and markets, Foligno has always attracted or hosted illustrious personalities. Let’s find out some of them through a quick overview.
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The heirs of the Bianciardi family have created the Friends of Palazzo Bianciardi Association with the aim of making this heritage accessible through the creation of the MAB, the Bianciardi Archive Museum, so that it can become a resource for the community and beyond.
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The frescoes of the fifteenth century coexist with an older layer dating back to at least two centuries before, which have a clearly templar nature”. They are part of the original decorative apparatus of this, which could have been a church but also a temple, since the motifs refer to the stone of the temple in Jerusalem.
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There has probably been a fortress on the hilltop overlooking Cortona since the 5th or 6th century BC, when the original Etruscan walls followed a course which roughly corresponds to the existing perimeter walls of today. However the first historical records describing a ‘strong and beautiful fortress’ date back to 1258 AD. Having been plundered and sacked several times during the wars with Arezzo it was sold to the Florentine Republic in 1411, together with the entire city of Cortona, although reconstruction work only began in 1527.
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The first historical evidence is found in a parchment of 1010 preserved in the Abbey of San Lorenzo in Coltibuono, in that document it is called plebes Sanctae Mariae quae dicitur Novella – the term novella in the Middle Ages was used to indicate a new piece of cultivated land.
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The Castle has been owned since 1964 by the Matta family, who in the 1980s began in the accommodation business with six apartments inside the castle. Currently there are 16 guestrooms, including those inside the castle and the suites in the rectory. Under the walls we find an enchanting swimming pool with a panoramic view over the valley, a delight for the eyes.
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