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 →On the coat of arms there are three elms: they stood in the castle square, and under those trees the elders discussed the affairs of the village and the priests gave their lessons. Radda was the head town of the League of Chianti, with Gaiole and Castellina, and in the Palazzo del Podestà the captain of the League sat for four centuries: on the façade the arms of those who followed one another are still set in the wall.
In 1773 the grand duke Pietro Leopoldo came all the way here and found it far from everything; he had the roads improved, but the place stayed poor. So much so that in 1860, when the vote was taken to join Tuscany to the kingdom of Sardinia, the noes won at Radda: two hundred and eighty-one yeses out of five hundred and eighty-one voters. Depopulation came in the nineteen fifties, the revival from the seventies, with wine.
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Outside Radda in Chianti, but an easy day trip away.
Museo diocesano di Rieti 📍 Rieti · 17 km Rieti's diocesan museum, a route through baptistery, sacristies, lapidarium and the Papal Palace gallery. Oratorio di San Pietro martire 📍 Rieti · 17 km The chapel of Rieti's San Domenico convent with the Torresani brothers' Last Judgement, rarely open. Amiternum 📍 L'Aquila · 22 km Sallust's Sabine city under the fields: a theatre, an amphitheatre and a whole Amiternum never excavated. chiesa di San Michele Arcangelo 📍 L'Aquila · 23 km Romanesque church at San Vittorino with fifth-century catacombs, near ancient Amiternum. Teatro romano di Amiternum 📍 L'Aquila · 22 km Augustan theatre of ancient Amiternum, near San Vittorino, with opus reticulatum walls.