The village of Santa Fiora stands on a hill and is divided into three districts: Castello, Borgo and Montecatino. The district of Castello, the oldest, has a medieval square dominated by the remains of the Aldobrandesque fortifications and the sixteenth-century palace of the Sforza Cesarini counts, today the municipal seat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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Located on the southern slope of Monte Amiata, the hamlet is extended on a hill and is divided into three \u201cterzieri\u201d (neighborhoods) Castello, Borgo and Montecatino, decreasing in succession from the chestnut groves to the springs of the river Fiora. The Castello, the oldest terziere, has a medieval square dominated by the ruins of the fortifications from the sixteenth-century palace of the Sforza Cesarini<\/a><\/strong> counts, which is now\u00a0site of the municipality. Among the frescoes of Cavalier d'Arpino's school and the Museum of Monte Amiata mercury mines, you can clearly understand\u00a0the peculiarities of the place where, in Piazza San Michele, you can find\u00a0the sculpture of the saint\u00a0that steps on\u00a0the devil. After visiting\u00a0the parish church of Saints Flora and Lucilla<\/a><\/strong>, which houses one of the largest collections in the world of the \"robbiane\", glazed terracottas by Luca and Andrea Della Robbia, you will enter through the medieval Porticciola in the second terziere Borgo, and then in the Ghetto area where the synagogue once rose. From Porta San Michele you will finally arrive in the terziere of Montecatino, where the abundance of water in the past had favored the emerging of some factories. Here what captures the attention is an unexpected body\u00a0of water: the splendid sixteenth-century Peschiera<\/a><\/strong> that, according to Cesare Brandi, looks\u00a0unforgettable and that, alone, is worth the trip. Next to Peschiera you will notice a vast park or garden of the Sforza era\u00a0and the seventeenth-century church of Madonna delle Neve<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0which rises above the springs of river Fiora, that you can easily see\u00a0under the glass floor.<\/p>\n Between the municipalities of the province of Grosseto, Santa Fiora is the one that maintained its customs and traditions the most among the others, and it also boasts a substantial amount\u00a0of\u00a0festivals during\u00a0the year. Just to name a few: the\u00a0Canti di Questua della Befana, an ancient recurring event\u00a0related to the dicioccatori<\/em>'s return from the Maremma immediately after the picking of\u00a0chestnuts; the Carnevale Morto, which is\u00a0the only local\u00a0representation that deals\u00a0with the theme of death and macabre as self-liberation that has survived to this\u00a0day in Maremma; the Spring festival and the celebration\u00a0of the Saints Flora and Lucilla.<\/p>\n","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"stato_borgo":[],"village-conntection":[51057],"borghi":[76375,76372],"village-category":[164887,35901,35890],"class_list":["post-176041","village","type-village","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","village-conntection-santa-fiora-it","borghi-grosseto","borghi-tuscany","village-category-medieval-village","village-category-orange-flag-countries","village-category-village-with-castle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/village\/176041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/village"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/village"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/village\/176041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"stato_borgo","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stato_borgo?post=176041"},{"taxonomy":"village-conntection","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/village-conntection?post=176041"},{"taxonomy":"borghi","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/borghi?post=176041"},{"taxonomy":"village-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/village-category?post=176041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}