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.
Read more →Gaiole was born as a market: the people of the castles around — Vertine, Montegrossi, San Donato in Perano — came down to the valley floor, along the Massellone, to trade their goods, and the market appears in notarial acts from 1215. One of those castles is Brolio, of the Ricasoli: Bettino Ricasoli, for years mayor of Gaiole, is the man who fixed the recipe of Chianti.
At the plebiscite of 1860 for annexation to the kingdom of Sardinia, the yes votes here did not reach a majority of those entitled: a great many abstained, and that was a way of saying no. In the village cemetery lies Carla Lonzi, the art critic who in 1970 founded Rivolta Femminile.
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Museo dell'orologio da torre 📍 Uscio · 4.3 km Four centuries of tower clocks in the Trebino workshop, where the Piacentini tower dial was built. Chiesa di Santa Margherita 📍 Avegno · 5.9 km Testana's church, with a Flemish relief that came through the port of Genoa. chiesa dei Santi Giovanni Battista e Giovanni Bono 📍 Recco · 8.4 km The bell tower was rebuilt to 55 metres, the exact height the 1943 bombs took down chiesa di Nostra Signora delle Grazie 📍 Recco · 8.5 km At Megli they venerate a 45-millimetre thorn and a Byzantine panel brought by sea in 1216 basilica di Santa Maria Assunta 📍 Camogli · 9.1 km Camogli's parish church, gilded baroque inside, built on a rock beside the old harbour Museo marinaro di Camogli 📍 Camogli · 9.2 km Ship models, pilot books and relics of a village fleet, collected by Gio Bono Ferrari from 1937