Albarese | Parco Naturale delle Maremma

Capalbio


Colline Metallifere


la costa Toscana

Crete Senesi

         
Abbazia di Monte Oliveto Maggiore

WALKING IN THE CRETE SENESI

Grosseto


Manciano


Montagnola Senese

         Walking in the Montagnola senese


Montalcino

Monte Amiata

         Walking on Monte Amiata


Montepulciano

Prato

Scansano

Siena

          Fonti di Siena

Ospedale Santa Maria della Scala

Sorano

Sovana

Val d'Elsa

          certaldo

          San Gimignano

          Colle di Val d'Elsa

Val de Merse

          Abbazia di San Galgano

Val d'orcia



          Montalcino

          Pienza

          Sant'Antimo

          San Quirico d'Orcia

          Radicofani

          Walking in the Val d'Orcia


Val di Chiana

         Montepulciano

         Montefollonico


Valle d'Ombrone

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





 
Le Crete Senesi

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Castle San Giovanni d'Asso, seen from South[1]



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The Crete Senesi | The Castle of San Giovanni d’Asso, seen from South, Crete Senesi

   
   

San Giovanni d'Asso is a comune in the area known as the Crete Senesi, in the heart of the white truffle territory. The hamlet is overlooked by a large Castle which dates back to the Sixteenth century.

 

Location43° 09′ 10.1″ N, 11° 35′ 23.13″ E Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.


 

   
   

Mappa San Giovanni d'Asso | Ingrandire mappa

 

The comune San Giovanni d'Asso includes the hamlets of Montisi, Lucignano d'Asso, Monterongriffoli, Vergelle and Pieve a Salti.
From January 1,2017 the municipalities of San Giovanni d'Asso and Montalcino were united into one comune. San Giovanni d'Asso is now part of a larger comune, Montalcino.

 

#poderesantapia Monte Amiata, vista da San Giovanni d'Asso, bellissimo panorama 

 

         
 
   


Comune San Giovanni d'Asso | Official website

Traveling in Tuscany | Collegium Vocale Crete Senesi

J. Cassar, M.G. Winter, B.R. Marker, N.R.G. Walton, D.C. Entwisle, E.N. Bromhead, J.W.N. Smith, Geological Society of London, 30 apr. 2014, Stone in Historic Buildings: Characterization and Performance | books.google.be/books

Tuscan architecture: the stones through the centuries
Starting from the Etruscan - Roman period, archaeological evidence indicates the use of strictly IocaI building materials Iike the calcarenites along the Tyrrhenian coast (Pisa and Populonia) and in Volterra, while, on the foothilIs of the Apennines, the Etruscan Fiesoie and Cortona are characterized by the use of a quartz-feldspar sandstone (Pietra Serena), clearly visible in the large blocks of the city walls.
In the Middle Ages, the materials used were still local. Pisa and Lucca are characterized mainly by the use of the quartzites of Monte Pisano, Massa Marittima (the old Massa Metallorum) by travertine, and Siena and San Gimignano by a vacuolar limestone (Calcare Cavernoso) and later on by bricks. The cities in the foothills of the Apennines, such as Arezzo, Cortona and Pistoia, were still characterized by the Pietra Serena, while Florence was built from another kind of sandstone, Pietraforte. However, Prato, which is between Florence and Pistoia, was built using the local marly limestone, known as Alberese. [p 71]

 

 

Galleria immagini Crete Senesi



   
Crete Senesi presso Asciano   Monte Oliveto Maggiore  
Monte Oliveto Maggiore, Campanil

Crete Senesi presso Asciano

 

  Monte Oliveto Maggiore  
Monte Oliveto Maggiore, Campanile]
Crete Senesi, balle di fieno   Pieve Santo Stefano a Cennano 08   Chiusure and the Campanile of Santa Maria di Monte Oliveto Maggiore
Crete Senesi, balle di fieno  

Pieve di Santo Stefano a Cennano. Absidi

 

 

Chiusure and the Campanile of Santa Maria di Monte Oliveto Maggiore

 

         

Holiday Accommodation Tuscany




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[1] Photo by LigaDue, licensed under  the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.