By Simone Bandini (…) “You don’t remember the house of this evening of mine. And I don’t know who goes and who stays” Eugenio Montale, The House of the Customs Officers (1930) Summer, or the season of holidays and lightness for many, of heaviness, bad taste and oppressive heat for others. […]
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Torrita, once called “Turrita”, is first mentioned in a document dated 1037 where it is listed as the property of the Benedictine Abbey of Sant’Antimo near Montalcino. As a fortified town with a surrounding wall and four towers, it later served as a military outpost for the defense of Siena’s border with neighboring Montepulciano. Later still, the town held Florentine ambitions at bay until it finally fell to the imperial forces of Charles the First in 1554 and the entire area passed into the Florentine Grand duchy.
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