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Chianti (Italian pronunciation:), in Italy also referred to as Monti del Chianti ("Chianti Mountains") or Colline del Chianti ("Chianti Hills"), is a mountainous area of Tuscany in the provinces of Florence, Siena and Arezzo, composed mainly of hills and mountains. It is known for the wine produced in and named for the region, Chianti.
A bottle of ordinary Tuscan table wine in the kind of traditional fiasco formerly used for Chianti. Chianti [a] is an Italian red wine produced in the Chianti region of central Tuscany, principally from the Sangiovese grape. It was historically associated with a squat bottle enclosed in a straw basket, called a fiasco ("flask"; pl.: fiaschi).
The Chianti tramway was a steam-powered tramway that connected Florence with the Chianti towns of San Casciano in Val di Pesa and Greve in Chianti.. It was primarily commissioned by Emanuele Orazio Fenzi, a banker and member of a family with railroad interests, and Sidney Sonnino, a politician representing the Chianti constituency in parliament.
The Elsa River Basin is located between Montagnola Senese and the rolling hills of Chianti, roughly corresponding to the eponymous valley Val d'Elsa. Catchments are predominantly fan shaped. [ 3 ] It encompasses a number of comune (municipalities) in the provinces of Florence and Siena .
After a short period under the French in the early 19th century, it became part of a united Italy in 1861. In the 20th century, the economy was based on the trade in Chianti wine and active industrialisation. Poggibonsi is the smallest of the Chianti Classico sub-regions.
Montefioralle is a village in Tuscany, a frazione of the comune of Greve in Chianti. It is sometimes claimed to be the birthplace of Amerigo Vespucci, though in fact it is known that Vespucci was born (on 9 March 1454) in Florence, in the suburb of Peretola. It is one of I Borghi più belli d'Italia ("The most beautiful villages of Italy"). [1]
Chianti was commonly associated with the straw basket enclosed bottle known as a fiasco in the late 20th century. The history of Chianti dates back to at least the 13th century with the earliest incarnations of Chianti as a white wine. Today this Tuscan wine is one of Italy's most well known and recognizable wines.
Siena is located in the central part of Tuscany, in the middle of a vast hilly landscape between the Arbia river valley (south), the Merse valley (south-west), the Elsa valley (north), the Chianti hills (north-east), the Montagnola Senese (west) and the Crete Senesi (south-east). The city lies at 322 m (1,056 ft) above sea level.