Capalbio: Italy's Little Athens In the Heart of Tuscany 🇮🇹 Local Food | Castle | History 🍇

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Welcome to Capalbio, the Italian Little Athens! 🇮🇹🇬🇷
🗺 Capalbio (GR) is the most southern municipality of Tuscany and, due to its environmental context and its historical-artistic importance during the Renaissance period, has been nicknamed “Little Athens”.
Here a few facts about this beautiful medieval town:
📍Capalbio is a municipality in the Province of Grosseto in Tuscany, Italy, located about 150 kilometres (93 mi) south of Florence and about 45 kilometres (28 mi) southeast of Grosseto.
✨ The name derives probably from the Latin "Caput Album" or "Campus Albus" (White Cape or Field, respectively), due to the white alabaster stone dug in the area.
⚜️ Capalbio is known for the first time in 805 CE, when it was donated to the Abbey of the Tre Fontane, near Rome, by Charlemagne. The possession was confirmed in 1161 by Pope Alexander III.
Later it was under the Aldobrandeschi family, who were followed by Orvieto, the Republic of Siena and the Orsini, who built the Castle.
Conquered by the Spaniards in 1555, it was assigned to Cosimo I de' Medici as part of his new Grand Duchy of Tuscany.
It became part of the Kingdom of Italy in 1860, becoming an independent municipality in 1960.
🏰 Capalbio has double walkable city walls: a unique feature of this beautiful town.
The Castle was built in medieval times as a possession of the Tre Fontane Abbey in Rome. During the 13th century it passed to the Aldobrandeschi family who further fortified it; the family had control of it with ups and downs until the end of the fourteenth century, when it definitively lost it to the benefit of the Orsini of Pitigliano.
The permanence of Capalbio and its fortress in the Orsini County was, however, very short, due to the conquest by the Sienese which took place at the beginning of the fifteenth century. Since then it was one of the southernmost outposts of the Republic of Siena. The Sienese carried out renovation works, giving the architectural monument its definitive appearance.
In the second half of the sixteenth century, with the definitive fall of Siena, it passed into the hands of the Medici, entering the borders of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany.
🎥 In 1989 it was used by director Duccio Tessari for most of the filming of the film "C'era un castello con 40 cani" with Peter Ustinov and Salvatore Cascio.
⛪️ Near the Fortress, in Capalbio’s central square, there is San Nicola’s Church. Built between the 12th and 13th century but renovated in the 15th century, the Church has interesting elements like some frescoes (15th and 16th century) and some capitals engraved with plants’ and animals’ decorations.
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