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The word itself luxury derived from the Latin luxus, and associated with real estate, indicates today in Italy, a category of properties of particular value and of high historical and artistic value. Middle Ages
Villa Medicea di Careggi, the first of the Florentine villas, was also created for Cosimo de' Medici by Michelozzo from an existing castle.. During the 15th and 16th centuries, the Tuscan aristocracy, who had forsaken their medieval castles for the political expediency, comfort and greater security of town life, developed an aesthetic awareness which necessitated the seasonal occupation of a ...
Castiglione is the most visited seaside destination in Tuscany and it ranks second among the most visited cities in the region, [6] being only preceded by Florence. In 2019, approximately 1.6 million tourists visited Castiglione reaching an historic record. [7] The town is also one of the most visited in Italy. [8]
The Bourbon-Parma were deposed in December 1807 when Tuscany was annexed by France. Florence was the prefecture of the French département of Arno from 1808 to the fall of Napoleon in 1814. The Habsburg-Lorraine dynasty was restored on the throne of Tuscany at the Congress of Vienna but finally deposed in 1859. Tuscany became a region of the ...
Cinerary urns of the Villanovan culture. The pre-Etruscan history of the area in the middle and late Bronze parallels that of the archaic Greeks. [1] The Tuscan area was inhabited by peoples of the so-called Apennine culture in the second millennium BC (roughly 1400–1150 BC) who had trading relationships with the Minoan and Mycenaean civilizations in the Aegean Sea, [1] and, at the end of ...
Felice agrees, however, that there were important differences within the south. In the south, the supremacy of Campania, the ancient capital region, home to Italy's most populous city and wealthy southern landowners, stood out: out of 100, its GDP per capita was 107, above the national average.
Villa Il Palagio is a villa and farm estate in Figline Valdarno, in the province of Florence in the Italian region Tuscany. The estate has belonged to the musician Sting and his wife Trudie Styler since the late 1990s.
In the 5th century AD (or earlier, depending on the source), Tuscania became one of the first bishopric sees in Italy. After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, it fell to the Lombards in 569 or 574. In 781 it became part of the Papal States. In 967–1066 it was a fief of the Anguillara family and then of the marquises of Tuscany.