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| The municipal territory of
Radda in Chianti covers 80.5 square km on the hills around the
deep valleys of the rivers Pesa and Arbia. It was a feudal centre and then
the residence of a mediaeval podesta from the XIII century onwards. It
was confirmed in its present day boundaries with the Leopoldina reforms of 1774. Radda was recorded for the first time with certainty in an edict of the Emperor Otto III from 1003 when its Court and castle were owned by the Fiorentina Abbey to whom they had been donated by the Marquis di Toscana, to whom it was confirmed by the Imperial authority. This was repeated several times in the following decade either by an act of succession by Ottone or by a series of Papal endorsements. Radda became a feudal possession of the Guidi Counts in 1220, by command Federico II. Towards the middle of the XIII century (the precise date is not known), Firenze affirmed its dominion here because of Radda's strategic importance. From 1176, Florence had jurisdiction over the greater part of Southern Chianti previously belonging to Siena. Firenze put Radda at the head of one of the three "Thirds" in which the Chianti League was administratively divided, and starting from 1384 at the latest, it became capital of the Chianti League, as is shown by the oldest preserved statutes. In the middle of the 1300s, on the orders of the Florentine government, the wall of the castle were reinforced, and new fortifications were needed after the Aragonese invasion in 1478 during which the Radda castle was conquered and devastated. Other periods of warfare had to be lived through in the first half of the 1500s, until the fall of the Siennese republic. From then on Radda was principally an active agricultural centre. |
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your country accommodations in Chianti - stay in the cool Chianti hills -
B&B rooms, apartments with pool. |
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