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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tomba del Tuffatore 📍 Capaccio Paestum · 14 km The only Greek painting of the classical age to survive: a man diving into space. Paestum 📍 Capaccio Paestum · 16 km Three names and a single ending: the Greek city that the water slowly ate. Temples of Paestum 📍 Capaccio Paestum · 19 km Three Doric temples standing since the sixth century BCE, and the Tomb of the Diver. Museo archeologico nazionale di Paestum 📍 Capaccio Paestum · 16 km The temples' museum, with the Tomb of the Diver and the metopes of Hera's sanctuary. Tempio di Nettuno 📍 Capaccio Paestum · 16 km The almost complete Doric temple, whose only wrong part is Neptune's name. Tempio di Atena 📍 Capaccio Paestum · 16 km Paestum's most refined temple, used as a church in the middle ages.