Patron saint festival
Feast of Saint Faustus
📅 Every year, on 18 September
On 18 September Castellina in Chianti celebrates Saint Faustus; the village also preserves its old fortress.
In 1430 Florence sent Filippo Brunelleschi to say how Castellina should be fortified and what it would cost. It was not enough: in 1478 the town fell, and the defence was directed by Giuliano da Sangallo while the besiegers were commanded by Francesco di Giorgio Martini. The Sienese kept it until 1483.
Between 1934 and 1939, at Ricavo, there worked a farm colony where young Jews who had fled Germany and eastern Europe learned the trade from the local sharecroppers, meaning to go on to Palestine: about two hundred of them passed through, and it was the racial laws that closed it. On the arms, meanwhile, crows the cock of the Lega del Chianti, one of whose three terzieri Castellina led.
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🎉 Festivals and feasts in Castellina in Chianti 1
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🍝 The flavours of Castellina in Chianti
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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Outside Castellina in Chianti, but an easy day trip away.
chiesa di Madonna di Campagna 📍 Verona · 14 km Sanmicheli's church built around a fresco that escaped demolition. Arena di Verona 📍 Verona · 18 km Four arches still standing after the 1117 earthquake, and opera on Roman steps since 1913. Casa di Giulietta 📍 Verona · 17 km Verona's most visited monument is a medieval tower house famously transformed into a shrine to Shakespeare's Juliet. Piazza delle Erbe 📍 Verona · 17 km The Roman forum turned marketplace: towers, frescoed palaces and a fountain from 1368. ponte Pietra 📍 Verona · 17 km Verona's Roman bridge, blown up in 1945 and rebuilt with the stones fished out of the Adige. Porta Vescovo 📍 Verona · 16 km Scaliger gate from 1287-1289, rebuilt by Venice in 1520 and later reshaped by the Austrians.