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Tuscany is one of the most
famous regions in Europe and has one of the richest
histories. San Miniato, the XX mile City, has always been
a part of this history.
This title comes from its special geographical position.
San Miniato is located along the Via Francigena (The road
from France) that connected northern Europe to Rome during
the Middle Ages and it was travelled by an uninterrupted
flow of men, armies, trade, ideas and culture. Situated
along this route in the heart of the Arno River Valley,
San Miniato was at the intersection of the roads between
Florence and Pisa, Lucca and Siena.
Pistoia, San Gimignano,
Volterra and Vinci also lay within these twenty miles.
It is not surprising, therefore, that San Miniato was a
favoured city of emperors like
Fredrick II of Swabia and Popes such as Gregory
V and Eugene IV. In 1533, for example, as Michelangelo
wrote in one of his manuscripts, he met with Pope Clement
VII in San Miniato where the pontiff commissioned him to
paint the Sistine Chapel.
A few years later, Michel de Montaigne stopped there and
recorded the visit in his work Travel to Italy.
It may be that another great
traveller, Wolfgang Goethe, whose journey between Florence
and Siena was documented, stopped to visit San Miniato al
Tedesco, the Rocca, the castle of his fellow countryman
Frederick II and the sixteenth-century Accademia degli
Affidati.
The entire history of Tuscany, from the Etruscans to the
Grand Duchy of Hapsburg-Lorraine, found a meeting point in
San Miniato.
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