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GIGLIO CASTELLOMunicipal, situated center to quota 405 s.l.m., is encircled from imposing walls spaced out from three towers to circular plant and seven to rectangular base. Erected from the Pisani in the XII sec., many times over widened and restored from the Granduchi of Tuscany, it is up to the present almost intact in its inside. The Giglio Castello is in reality fortified living and the access door is a extremely complex structure that is introduced as a avancorpo with numerous it arches that they allowed the shooting intercrossed of one most driven in formation of archers. On the inner facade of the last one of the three doors the coat of arms of the Doctors is the plate in representing marble, that they upgraded the castle destroyed from the saraceni. The imposing wall Medicee were built up on the ruins of the previous pisane of the XI sec. Inside of the village, in the below public square the church, can be still seen the reservior realized to the end of the '700 from the Doctors in order to resolve the water problems. The tightened ways, often sormontate from arch, the balzuoli (external scales in order to approach the advanced plans), Piazza XVIII November on which it dominates the Rocca Aldobrandesca, imposing defensive structure, makes of Giglio Castello an evocative goal, from the only fascination, today one of the medioevali villages more better conserved and originates them in Italy. The Church of Saint Peter Apostle has been constructed in all probability in XV the century and to its inside a remarkable number of reperti can be admired: a capitello corinzio of the II sec. a.C. that it supports the acquasantiera, the two statues of the seven hundred of Saint Mamiliano and Saint Peter, the marble altar of the XV sec., the reliquari of the Pope Urbano I and Urbano VIII, the church furnishingses of Pope Innocenzo XIII, the three burlaps of the Nasini, the Crocifisso of ivory of the XVI sec. attributed to Giambologna, the reliquario of the 1724 containing ulna skillful of Saint Mamiliano and exposed in teca of glass two sabres and d a gun with valuable inlays abandoned from the pirati ones during the last attack of 1799. Today, beyond to numerous botteghe and the characteristic small restaurants, wine cellars are still found where it comes produced and conserved the typical one, amber and sturdy Ansonaco wine, virtue of the isolani producers. |