Apartments in Chianti at 3 Km from Antica Pieve

The 2 apartments are situated in an old small village on a hill with a 360° panorama and 3km from the B&B.
The apartment which has been recently restructured in traditional Tuscan style is split into 2 levels for a total of 110 m2.
On the ground floor: study with single bedroom a bathroom with shower, kitchen and a room with a fireplace. On the first floor: 2 double bedrooms and 2 bathrooms with a shower and bathtub.

Exterior: Private garden with veranda and dinner table, a swimming pool and private parking.
The apartment is equipped with all comforts: air conditioned, fireplace, satellite TV, dishwasher and washing machine.
The prices include house linen with a mid-week change, and final cleaning. The cost of the electricity is calculated by consumption.

 

Semifonte was a fortified village, with walls and towers and was formed by 300 family who formed the garrison of 300 soldiers.
It had 4 gates, the first in the direction of the village of Lucardo, with a high tower where there also was a very nice spring, it was so called "Porta al Bagnano" or "Porta alla Fonte". Entering this gate you were in the Borgo with houses, kitchen-gardens, smitheries and at the end there was the second gate called "del Borgo" or "della Bastia" because there was a tower (Bastia).
The third gate,  nicer and bigger was called "Romana", was merloned and higher more than 120 ells, had balcony and marble small colums and a linon in stone where the gonfalon had his discourses so that the tower was called the lions tower.
The "Postierla" was the gate in the direction of Vico called "Saint Niccolò" gate because there was the church devoted to that Saint. In the center of the village there was a square with the palace of the old Visconti and the houses of the magnates and where there was a solid Rocca or Fortress.
Semifonte was originated from Florentine generations and was a feudal empire until the 1167 from a family arrived in Italy with the Longobards. Emilia, the las daughter and heir of a viscount of that family get married in 1170 with the Count Alberto de Conti Alberti, they had sons Mainardo, Rinaldo and others.
The town was menacing with its power the supremacy of Florence so that was decided to move war against the town.
As a result the town was conquered and completely destroyed so that was litterally erased from the land. The same destruction was applyed to all the castles of the valley who were allied with Semifonte.
To let the people remember the defeat and state the power of Florence on the land a reproduction of the Dome Chapel in Florence was built where once stood the town of Semifonte.

Semifonte at that time was in great power and was becoming stronger and stronger. We can immagine the town as in the following picture: