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 →The coat of arms is a silver lion on a red field gripping, in its left paw, a carrot root. It is not a joke: in 1336 the comune, then a fief of the Aldobrandeschi, had a shield divided in two, with a rampant lion on one side, the sign of Siena, and on the other a bunch of roots surmounted by a crown, that is the name of the village turned into a picture. Later the two symbols were merged into one, and the crown, which recalled the fief, disappeared.
The countryside is scattered with castles, Elci, Falsini, Fosini, Montingegnoli, Colletalli, and at the Galleraie there are the baths. Inside the Cornate nature reserve stands the monument to the Boscaglia Brigade. The composer Luciano Berio chose to live here from 1972; and since 1987, every summer, the village has hosted a festival of theatre, music and film.
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Castello Visconteo 📍 Legnano · 2.1 km Medieval castle on an Olona island, once the convent of San Giorgio, with the Lampugnani keep of 1437-1445. Chiesa di Sant'Ambrogio 📍 Legnano · 2.6 km Legnano's oldest church, rebuilt in 1590 and enlarged in 1740, with paintings by the Lampugnani. Basilica di San Magno 📍 Legnano · 2.8 km Renaissance basilica of the Bramante school built from 1504 to 1513, with Bernardino Luini's polyptych. Chiesa di Santa Rita 📍 Legnano · 3.2 km Church of the Purification, later Santa Rita, annexed to the Melzi institute, with Lampugnani frescoes. Museo civico Guido Sutermeister 📍 Legnano · 3.4 km Legnano's archaeological museum, set up in 1929, with finds from the Copper Age to the Lombards and the Sala collection. Chiesa del Santissimo Redentore 📍 Legnano · 3.4 km Lombard Romanesque church of 1902 at Legnanello, with a Byzantine altar of Carrara marble and mosaics of 1923.