The legend explains three names at one stroke: Ajone founded Monte Ajone, the girl he married was called Figline like the castle beside it, and the rival who had carried her off was Gambasso. Later a Florentine knight stopped the people of Montaione from sacrificing a girl, Filli, and took for his banner the torn red dress she gave him: hence the da Filicaja and their arms.
The rivalry with Gambassi is in the records too. Glass was blown here, and the licence granted in 1335 to Bartolo Bennati to open a glassworks laid three things on him: to pay fifteen lire of duty, to employ no man of Gambassi nor any other enemy of the comune, and to sell the glasses at two and a half denari, that is half a denaro less than at Gambassi.
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📅 Every year, on 3 May; the Liberarti festival in June, Musica Suonata in August
Montaione celebrates the Most Holy Crucifix on 3 May. Since 2010, in the last week of June, the town hosts the Liberarti festival, and since 2009, in August, the Festival della Musica Suonata.
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Outside Montaione, but an easy day trip away.
