Anghiari medieval suburb

Anghiari preserves intact in the historical center and the near alleys the lines of a medieval suburb with the boundaries and a bastion impregnable.Vista di Anghiari

The local handicraft tradition counts many teachers of the wood, antiquaries and renovators what they contribute with their shops to make the charm of this suburb.

The origins of Anghiari

Anghiari is remembered for the first time in 1048 from a parchment to City of Castle even if the origins go up again to a small Roman installation.

Anghiari in the middle age

Anghiari was considered for a long time a castle of border between the Byzantine dominoes and longobardi. You/he/she was governed from the gentlemen of Galbino and from the monks camaldolesi before passing in the hands of the Florentines.

The battle of Anghiari

The 1440 Anghiari Battle marked the victory of the Florentine Republic against the Milanese.
In the 1503 Florence it commissioned to Leonardo the representation of the battle of Anghiari. The work is lost but from the original cardboards Rubens painted this work of his. La battaglia di Anghiari di Rubens


Outskirts

To see in the outskirts of Anghiari, to the border with the Casentino, there am the Sanctuary of the Verna and Caprese Michelangelo that gives the natives to the great artist.
Moving towards the Umbria we suggest to visit Sansepolcro, the suburb of Citerna, Città di Castello and Monterchi.

The Show Market of Anghiari

The Show Market of the craftsmanship of the Valtiberina Toscana is a fixed annual appointment.
Organized among the end April and the first days of May, it involves artisans of the iron and the wood, activity that for a long time I am tied up to Anghiari.

Piero della Francesca

The Valtiberina preserves some of the most famous masterpieces of Piero della Francesca.

To the Civic Museum of Sansepolcro ssia the teacher's works is juvenile as the Madonna della Misericordia that of the maturity as the Resurrection. Resurrezione di Piero della Francesca

To Monterchi instead, village of origin etrusco-Roman with the castle and the well preserved medieval boundaries, Piero della Francesca left the fresco Madonna del Parto recently restored. affresco della Madonna del Parto

How arrive to Anghiari

Anghiari is far about 25 km and to arrive to Anghiari from our house vacations you should continue for Capolona and from here follow the road 71 toward Arezzo turning to Borgo a Giovi.

Visit also...

If you are interested to visit Anghiari you could be to see:

Craftsmanship

Museums