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Civitella in Val di Chiana
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Civitella was important in historical age thanks to its strategic positioning regarding the distances towards Siena and Florence, and to its role of garrison in the proximity of the city of Arezzo. The definitive appearance of Civitella comes dated towards the second half of 13th century, when the bishop of Arezzo Guglielmino degli Ubertini erected the imposing fortifications on the system of the Keep, that was risen on previous roman and longobard fortifications. The castle lived its period of maximum splendor, beginning from 1318, with Bishop Guido Tarlati, lord of Civitella. The village had developed according to the morphology of the land connecting the houses leaned to the senese gate and the castle with the church of S. Maria, situated to the opposite end of the hill. The village today is characterized from two flanked public squares connected on a side from buildings with arcade, are here the buildings more important of Civitella, reconstructed after the destructions caused from the second world war (in particular from the German reprisal on 29 June 1944), between which the Palazzo Pretorio (14th century), Palazzo Becattini, the “Cancelleria” and Palazzo Ninci. In the farther square from the Fortress it's a beautiful stone tank in octagonal base. At the extreme end of the village, on the opposite side of the Rocca, is the Church of S. Maria, going back to the year 1000, and reconstructed in Romanesque style in 1252.
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