Castiglion Fibocchi, Italy

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Rank : 10.0 (average on 1 votes)

Coordinates : 43.528363, 11.763152 (Open in Google Maps)

Subjects : small medieval village with handmade masks in all alleys and squares. The town of Castiglion Fibocchi rises on the last offshoots of Pratomagno overlooking Arezzo. At the meeting point between the Casentino valley and the upper Valdarno, the population of Castiglion Fibocchi has developed quite unique uses, characters and culture. The territory has been modified by the hard work of man, committed to exploiting every corner of land both cultivated with cereals, vines, olive trees and occupied by the forest.

Recommended equipment : I recommend Wide angle, 50-70 mm for close-ups, zoom 70/100.

Best months : January and February during Carnival

How to get there : Motorway A1 exit Arezzo, follow signs for Casentino and then Castiglion Fibocchi.Il municipality of Castiglion Fibocchi rises on the last offshoots of Pratomagno overlooking Arezzo. At the meeting point between the Casentino valley and the upper Valdarno.

Visits : from 10:30 to 18:00admission 8 euro adults fattening free for children up to 10 years

Notes : The Carnival of the "Sons of Bocco" of Castiglion Fibocchi (Arezzo) already attested from the twelfth century AD, according to what results from a marriage certificate, drawn up in the Castle of Sassello, near Castelluccio di Capolona, in February 1113, where it is said that Berta di Ardimanno having to marry Guglielmo di Bernardino, noble of Valdarno, had to anticipate the date of her wedding, as in the Castle de filiis Bocchi in the Val d'Arno Arezzo was celebrated the "Carnival de filiis Bocchi", with great libations, before the beginning of Lent.Fu interrupted in the fourteenth century, but remained always alive and in the culture of the country, so much so that in 1698 an orsocircense did not want to go up in the Piazzone for fear of being made to dance.

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