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Il Castello Di Montemignaio
Address - Via Roma, 56, 52010, Montemignaio
General Information
The Bar - Restaurant - Hotel "Il Castello" is placed in a site of great historical importance, in the centre of Montemignaio, in front of the medioeval castle's walls of Conti Guidi, from which it derives its name.
A quite and suggestive place from which you can admire a wonderful landscape.
Here you'll enjoy a holiday visiting lots of historical places of the "Casentino" mountains, or the art-cities like Florence, Arezzo, Siena, that you can easily reach by car or by bus.
The official inauguration of "Il Castello" was held on March 2004, and the hotel will be open each year from 15th March to 31st October.
You can find any further information about the offered services in the dedicated section of the menu on the left of the page.
We're waiting for you!
The hotel, family managed, is opened from 15th March to 31st October with its 18 large single and double rooms (it is possible to add a further bed).
Each room has its bathroom with hair-drier, television, internal telephone.
The hotel offers also a beautiful terrace with a fine view available as solarium.
The public parking is near to the hotel.
BAR AND RESTAURANT
The restauration, which is personally followed by the owners, offers genuine cooking and typical tuscan dishes and local products, wide wine menu and buffet breakfast.
There is also the possibility to have a menu a la carte. The restaurant is placed in a large room with a fire-place. From May to June we accept bookings for baptisms, communions, weddings and other celebrations.Is available also the bar, with tables open air.
TOURISTIC ATTACTIONS
We plan guided tours from July to August in the near historic and touristic places (once a week during the specified period).
Mountain-bike for rent, village feasts during the summer.
All around the mountains, the beauty of the countryside, the termal baths, the castles and the monasteries, the village feasts, the rural traditions, the famous touristic places to visit. For those who are bored with the daily routine, here with us they will find the perfect place where to relax.
THE ANCIENT VILLAGE
We suppose that the name of Montemignaio derives from the latin "Mons Miliarius", to remember an ancient roman miliar stone placed along the street.
We find the first information about Montemignaio in 1103, when it is named in a papal bull of Pope Pasquale II, which attributed the S. Maria parish to the Fiesolan Diocesy; but its importance is due to the fact that it was a feud of the Counts Guidi that enlarged it and built a defensive rock named Castel Leone or Castiglione. After the rebellion of the inhabitans of Castel San Niccolò, which allied to those of Montemignaio, the last count of the Guidi family abandoned the feud and the entire area fell under the Republic of Florence which gave it to the jurisdiction of the florentine mountain podestà.
THE CASTLE OF COUNTS GUIDI
The ancient castle of Counts Guidi is the main touristic attraction of Montemignaio. The castle was a real fortess in past times, surrounded by strong rectangular-planned walls. Even the actual entrance door is not original but it was opened later on for the inhabitans'convenience, who mostly lived inside the walls themselves, in the so called Palagio building, once home of the counts and their courtiers. The Palagio is a stoned gotic-windowed building, with a little loggia placed side by side.
Inside the Rock there are several interesting places, as the Large Cistern, which is cross-vaulted with 3 metres thickness walls, a real engineering work, and the pretty parish of Madonna della Neve with its beautiful gotic portal. A curious history refer to the tower's bell: when in 1809 the French soldiers invaded Montemignaio and conquered the castle, which had allied to Arezzo, they tried to break the bell which had been played to recall the inhabitans against the enemies. Since French soldiers failed because of its strongness, they took at least the clapper away, which was later on found in a blacksmith shop in Rovezzano and taken back in the viallage as a precious trophy.
OASIS IN NATURE...
Montemignaio is the ideal place for who is looking for a relaxing and regenerating holiday, inside the nature and the beauty of the tuscan countryside.
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