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○ 1739 : MARIA THERESA OF AUSTRIA
10.08.2013 11:01
§ The heirs to the Holy Roman Empire in Scaraicalasino §
On a frosty and windy winter night, in January, 19 1739, Francis Stephen, Duke of Lorraine (Nancy 1708 – Innsbruck 1765) and his wife, Maria Theresa of Austria (Vienna 1717 – 1780), Archduchess...
○ 1734 : THE DUKE CHARLES OF BOURBON
10.08.2013 11:00
§ The passage of Charles de Bourbon, Duke of Parma and Piacenza, the future King of Spain §
October 5, 1732. Charles the Fisrt, Duke of Parma, stopped in Scaricalasino. As heir presumptive of Gian Gastone de’ Medici, he had visited Florence. The 16...
○ 1685 : THE SANCTUARY OF MADONNA DEI BOSCHI
10.08.2013 10:59○ 1592 AD: THE GREAT FAIR OF ST. MICHAEL
10.08.2013 09:57
§ The birth of St. Michael's Fair in Monghidoro §
On August 1, 1592 the Papal Curia granted the abbot Lodovico da Bologna permission to hold a public market every Thursday in the town square...
○ 1528 AD: THE ABBEY OF ST. MICHAEL IN ALPES
10.08.2013 02:05
§ A short history of the Abbey of Scaricalasino §
In 1528, the Soldier of Fortune Ramazzotto da Scaricalasino, better known as Armaciotto dei Ramazzotti (Monghidoro 1464 – Pietramala 1539), gave orders to the construction of an Olivetan monastery dedicated to...
○ 1511-1515 AD: THE VISITS OF POPE LEO X
10.08.2013 01:42
§ On the relations between Pope Leo X and the soldier Armaciotto §
In Monghidoro there is a little square dedicated to Pope Leo X, who stayed in Scaricalasino several times as a guest of the condottiero Captain, Armaciotto de'...
○ 1246 AD : THE CASTLE OF SCARICALASINO
10.08.2013 01:27
§ Birth of a fortified village §
Various historians have presumed that around the VII century AD a Germanic tribe belonging to the Goths, settled in a strategic location of the Apennine mountains, amongst the high vales of...
○ 1200 AD : THE ROAD TO FLORENCE
10.08.2013 01:14
§ On the origins of the Futa Road §
"In every part of the world there are roads that people have used for hundreds or even thousands of years, and then they are abandoned. The two most common reasons why this can happen are either because the...
○ 1100 AD : FROM MONS GOTHORUM TO MONGHIDORO
10.08.2013 00:51
§ On the origin of Monghidoro §
After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, around the 7th, 8th century AD, hordes of barbarian peoples (primarily Ostrogoths and Langobards) and Byzantine armies, no less ferocious in their attempt to...
○ 1100 FROM MONS GOTHORUM TO MONGODORI
10.08.2013 00:49
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