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Fiesole the most beautiful hill town in the vicinity of Florence. Your holiday must be perfect to get unforgettable: Tuscany gives you Culture, Nature and Tradition. Fiesole Florence can offer you the best Tuscany charming holiday Fiesole is of Etruscan origin, as may be seen from the remains of its ancient walls
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If you're beginning to feel overwhelmed by Florence's churches and museums, or simply want to get away from the crowds for a while, take a break and visit Fiesole, the town perched on the hill just north of Florence.

Getting there is easy, it can easily be explored in a morning. It also has fine restaurants, and several spots with shaded benches and beautiful views, should you decide you wish to spend the afternoon enjoying the breezes that never seem to make it down into Florence during the summer.

Fiesole (300 m. of altitude in the main Mino Public square) it tos be distant from the center of Florence approximately 9 km.

Fiesole has about 15.000 inhabitants distributed for approximately a third party in the ancient citizen, an other third party in ""Valle del Mugnone" and remaining in the fractions, live to houses scattered of "Valle dell'Arno".

The territory measure approximately 42 Kmq, nearly all in hill with heights that vary from i 58 m on the rivers of
the Arno to i 702 m on the Pratone Hill, a true roof on Florence, with preAppennine landscape.

The city center is connected through the dorsal way for the Elm tree to the region of the Mugello.

The cross-sectional practicability is assured from one driven in mesh of ancient roads.

The landscape, in agrarian and forest prevalence, it is punctuated from the olive trees, in head to the arboreal cultivations, from spots of forest ceduo or conifers, and from the houses scattered inserted in the picture with secular wisdom.

In 1983 the Common one supplied to reorders of the campaign disciplining the restoration of the houses peasants, precious retaggio of the agricultural civilization Tuscany, so as to to save of the cultural value and it acclimatizes them.

Little are the carried out industrial activities from small artisan companies. They prevail instead those of the services and trades them as well as that it is spoken about Fiesole like of and typically tourist residential area.

The Cathedral of St. Romulus was built in 1028 by Bishop Jacopo Bavaro with materials taken from several older buildings and it contains notable sculptures by Mino da Fiesole. The old cathedral became a Benedictine abbey, and in course of time passed into the hands of the regular canons of Lateran.

It once possessed a valuable library, long since dispersed. The abbey was closed in 1778. The diocese has 254 parishes. Within its limits there are 12 monasteries of men, including the famous Vallombrosa, and 24 convents for women.

The principal holy places of Fiesole are:

  • the cathedral ( Il Duomo ), containing the shrine of St. Romulus, martyr, according to legend the first Bishop of Fiesole, and that of his martyred companions, also the shrine of St. Donatus of Ireland;
  • the Badia or ancient cathedral at the foot of the hill on which Fiesole stands, supposed to cover the site of the martyrdom of St. Romulus;
  • the room in the bishop's palace where St. Andrew Corsini lived and died;
  • the little church of the Primerana in the cathedral square, where the same saint was warned by Our Lady of his approaching death;
  • the church of S. Alessandro, with the shrine of St. Alexander, bishop and martyr;
  • the monastery of S. Francesco on the crest of the hill, with the cells of St. Bernardine of Siena and seven Franciscan Beati;
  • S. Girolamo, the home of Venerable Carlo dei Conti Guidi, founder of the Hieronymites of Fiesole (1360);
  • S. Domenico, the novice-home of Fra Angelico da Fiesole and of St. Antoninus of Florence;
  • Fontanelle, a villa near S. Domenico where St. Aloysius came to live in the hot summer months, when a page at the court of Grand Duke Francesco de' Medici;
  • Fonte Lucente, where a miraculous crucifix is greatly revered.
  • few miles distant is Monte Senario, the cradle of the Servite Order, where its seven holy founders lived in great austerity and were cheered at their death by the songs of angels;
  • S. Martino di Mensola, with the body of St. Andrew, an Irish saint, still intact.
If you seat on the mouldering walls of Fiesole, you can admire these splendid scenes of Italian landscape, with mingled sensations of saddened contemplation, and feel that nothing brings to the mind such lively images of home, or such melancholy recollections of the years that are past, as the sight of the setting sun in a foreign land.
Links:
comune.fiesole.fi.it Official website of Fiesole.
fiesolemusei.it museums in Fiesole.
 

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