Pistoia Tourist Attractions: 15 Top Places to Visit
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Top Places to visit in Pistoia:
Sant'Andrea, Funicolare di Montecatini Terme, Piazza del Duomo, Montecatini Alto, Ospedale del Ceppo, Piazza della Sala, Ponte Sospeso di San Marcello Pistoiese, Lago Nero, Baptistery, Pistoia Sotterranea, San Bartolomeo in Pantano, Osservatorio Astronomico Montagna Pistoiese, Palazzo dei Vescovi, Villa Garzoni Garden, Museo e Rifugi S.M.I
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Pistoia: Oppio Pass and the suspension bridge | Italia Slow Tour
Italia Slow Tour on the tourist-cycling route along the old Pistoia railway, to the top of the Oppio pass. Enjoy this beautiful scenery with the Apuan Alps, on the right one can spot the mountains of the Abetone with its ski lifts. Our itinerary leads to Mamiano and its amazing suspension bridge on the valley of the Lima. It’s just like we were in Tibet! A bridge suspended between two provinces, two bell towers, two different lineages.
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The hanging bridge at San Marcello Pistoiese in Tuscany Italy
See the view from the hanging bridge on the Lima River at San Marcello Pistoiese in Tuscany Italy.
Pistoia: Castruccio bridge and the tactile museum | Italia Slow Tour
Pistoia's mountain is filled with treasures. The Lima River separates the territories of Lucca and Pistoia, united by the Castruccio bridge. Named after mr Castruccio Castracani and that's a story in itself... A story of betrayals and intrigues! But let’s go sightseeing in the city centre of Pistoia, the Italian Capital of Culture 2017, stopping by the unusual tactile museum that allows the city to be touched first hand!
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RAIUNO-Speciale TVSETTE su Agriturismo Tenuta San Marcello
Uno speciale di TVSETTE (settimanale del TG1) dedicato al nostro agriturismo Tenuta San Marcello: una splendida struttura che si trova tra le colline marchigiane e produce due vini DOC tipici della zona: la Lacrima di Morro d'Alba e il Verdicchio dei Castelli di Jesi.
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Places to see in ( Pistoia - Italy ) Palazzo dei Vescovi
Places to see in ( Pistoia - Italy ) Palazzo dei Vescovi
The ancient Palace of the Bishops of Pistoia , located in the Piazza del Duomo, was built in the eleventh century in the ancient market space that the emperor Otto III had donated to the bishop of Pistoia, when the conflicts between the Chapter and the Bishop induced this last to build an autonomous dwelling. It is attested from 1091 and initially was a fortified dwelling and equipped with battlements, then in the twelfth century it acquired the appearance of a stately home with mullioned windows, three-light windows and frescoes in the main room, of which traces remain difficult to interpret.
Some substantial changes to the architecture of the building were carried out between the mid- twelfth and early thirteenth centuries . The first attestation is the one that modified the bishop's court, with the construction of the Sacristy of San Jacopo , built between 1163 and 1170 and annexed to the Chapel of San Jacopo, where the relic of the saint was kept. This was the sacristy where the theft of Vanni Fucci narrated by Dante in the XXIV canto of the Inferno and perpetrated in 1293 or 1294 took place . Its construction had been made necessary by the lack of a service room for the chapel because of the contrasts with the Municipality of Pistoia that had wanted the Chapel of San Jacopo obtained in the first two bays of the left aisle of the cathedral but separated from the rest of the building not to create confusion between the cult of San Iacopo, proclaimed patron of the city around 1145 , and the previous cult of San Zeno, remained patron of the Pistoia Church and the cathedral. In the last decades of the twelfth century, above the sacristy, a brick bishop 's chapel was built, probably by comacine workers, as the hanging apse on the east side of castles, episcopes and French abbeys would suggest . Dedicated to San Niccolò , it was decorated with large eight-pointed stars on a blue background in the vault, similar to that of the sacristy.
In 1220 it is documented the discovery staircase leaning against the north wall, set on a sturdy lowered arch and decorated with two-colored marbles, one of the oldest of Italian civil architecture, prior to that of the town hall of Todi and the people's palace of Orvieto . During the fourteenth century the walls of the Chapel of San Niccolò were frescoed with stories of San Niccolò and the Martyrs, at the end of the century a large fresco of the Crucifixion was commissioned by Bishop Andrea Franchi. In the fourteenth century the building was extended in two phases. In the first the staircase was covered with a building supported by four pointed arches made of bricks finished at the top by three mullioned windows. Subsequently the loggia was extended to the west, assuming the current dimensions. Both the use of exposed brick and the large loggia on the first floor were unusual.
In the fifteenth century the rooms on the ground floor were rented for small businesses and some rooms of the bishop's apartment were decorated with frescoes. In the sixteenth century the building achieved considerable elegance but began to reveal lack of service rooms. The Bishop Scipione de 'Ricci found it chaotic and obtained from the Grand Duke Peter Leopold the permission to build a new bishop's palace.
In 1786 the ancient Palazzo dei Vescovi adjoining the cathedral was sold to private individuals. In the following decades the building was deeply remodeled, increasing the number of internal floors, subdividing it into apartments and shops and heavily modifying the facades. In 1936 a first restoration of the main facade was carried out, which brought to light some sections of the Gothic-Renaissance lines. Starting in 1976, the Cassa di Risparmio di Pistoia, after gradually acquiring the entire property of the building, began a complex and radical restoration of the building that ended in 1980, with the recovery of most of the structures and original appearance.
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Sassari 2015 - Piccola Grande Italia
Sassari, la seconda città più grande della Sardegna, sorge timorosa, lontana dal mare quasi a rispettare l'immane bellezza naturale della costa sarda. La storia ci racconta delle frequenti incursioni saracene ed ecco spiegato il motivo della sua urbanizzazione interna. Siamo al cospetto di una delle città più continentali della Sardegna, con poche tracce dello spirito rurale sardo, molto più marcato in altre località più a Sud. Con una popolazione di circa 130.000 abitanti, è una città poliedrica, ricca di storia e di un grande patrimonio culturale ereditato dai vari colonizzatori sardi, genovesi, pisani, spagnoli piemontesi e austriaci che l'hanno governata nel tempo.
I secoli e le diverse dominazioni della città hanno lasciato un'impronta importante nella crescita urbana e nei monumenti: l'influenza pisana resta nel Romanico Sassarese, mentre il Barocco è decisamente spagnoleggiante.
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Rufina - Piccola Grande Italia
Rufina, o per meglio dire La Rufina, con l'aggiunta del significativo articolo femminile singolare che ne sottolinea l'unicità, è un celebre centro di produzione vitivinicola che sorge lungo la riva sinistra del fiume Sieve.
Il centro abitato è attraversato dalla Strada Statale 67 che congiunge Firenze alla Romagna. Una via d'antica percorrenza, che ha permesso lo sviluppo, lungo il suo asse, di importanti poli commerciali. Rufina, è appunto uno di questi.
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Villa Anetta is an independant villa, built in the second half of the 18th century, is the centre of a property of over 18 acres of woods and olive groves. It is on the last western slopes of Mount Albano, approximately 250mt. above sea level.
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