Patron saint festival In 258 days
Saints Peter and Paul, patrons of Buonconvento
📅 Every year, on 29 June
Buonconvento celebrates Saints Peter and Paul on 29 June, in the church dedicated to them.
The name means «fortunate place». On the twenty-fourth of August 1313 the emperor Henry VII died here. The story went that a friar had poisoned him with the host; in fact he had caught anthrax, and anthrax was then treated with arsenic compresses: when his bones were examined, the arsenic was really there. The same examination showed that the face Tino di Camaino carved for him was not his.
The walls were begun in 1371 and finished twelve years later, with only two gates: the Sienese one to the north and the Roman one to the south, which the Germans destroyed in 1944. Inside, the museum of sacred art of the Val d'Arbia keeps works by Duccio and the Lorenzetti; outside the walls, in an old vat-house, there is the museum of Sienese sharecropping.
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What to eat here 2
Bistecca alla Fiorentina · Panforte di Siena
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Getting there
Nearest airport: Firenze Peretola, 79 km away
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🍝 The flavours of Buonconvento
Panforte di Siena sweet of almonds, candied fruit, honey and spices pressed into a disc
Almonds, candied fruit, flour, honey and spices pressed into a low disc: Siena's panforte has a recipe documented since 1205.
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chiesa di San Donato 📍 Massimino · 9.3 km The parish church of San Donato in the hamlet of San Vincenzo, baroque, built between 1818 and 1820. monastero di Santo Stefano 📍 Millesimo · 14 km Baroque church and fifteenth-century cloister, Cistercian until 1802, now inside a private castle. castello di Millesimo 📍 Millesimo · 15 km Dismantled in 1553 so the French could not take it, the thirteenth-century keep is open again. Castello di Cairo Montenotte 📍 Cairo Montenotte · 20 km The ruins of the Del Carretto castle above Cairo Montenotte, in the upper Bormida valley. Ferrania Film Museum 📍 Cairo Montenotte · 20 km Six themed rooms in Palazzo Scarampi for the plant that made Ferrania a name in world cinema. castello di Dego 📍 Dego · 24 km Ruins at Cua, above the Val Bormida, and a Napoleonic path that climbs up to them.