• Medicean places
• Suggested route
• The Medici estates
• Il Palazzo dei Vicari
• Trebbio Castle
• Villa di Cafaggiolo
• Bosco ai frati Convent
• Villa Demidoff Park
• Wineroad of Rufina and Pomino
• Museums in Mugello
• Gastronomy in the Mugello
• The seasons in the cuisine
• Restaurant - Trattorie & Pizzerie in the Mugello
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Medicean places
The Mugello territory was very much loved by the Medici family, whose roots seem to lie in Campiano, a hamlet in the Municipality of Barberino di Mugello .
The Medici family has left Mugello with numerous traces of a power that united economic and political expansion to the most innovative forms of artistic expression. They are not merely the result of an enlightened patronage but part of a cultural context so accepted and widespread that they are also clearly visible in the geometrical division of the lands and the woods, in the rational canalization of the waters, in the design and size of certain farm houses, manors and churches, and in the harmonious distribution of the settlements.
It is a finely woven mesh that finds no interruption in continuity, and goes from its highest most specialized moments (like one of Donatello's or Michelozzo's works) to the more common ones, which pertain to everyone, and create ?atmosphere?.
The traveller is, therefore, invited to enter this world by whatever means he chooses, and to travel along the roads, now byways, that were visited by ancient times and travellers, to discover the monuments and outstanding artistic works, but also the lesser and often unacknowledged signs of this great civilization
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