History La Macina di San Cresci

Funny History

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It was the year 948 and Leonardo da Vinci had not yet given us his extraordinary inventions.

No, there was not even Dante and we would have to wait some time before reading the Divine Comedy.

Brunelleschi had not yet given the cupola of the cathedral to Florence and Giotto the bell tower.

No, in this land called Tuscany

we did not even know of the existence of America.

Florence was just a small town and there were only uncultivated fields where Greve in Chianti would arise.

And yet in that long ago 948 the Pieve di San Cresci was already in place, on a beautiful hill in front of which, centuries later, Giovanni da Verrazzano would be born.

This small hamlet has seen the Middle Ages, the Renassaince and the Enlightenment and has come down to us, continuing to ride along with history. Situated in a landscape as famous as their oil and wine , this place lives for and is dedicated to the arts.

It is here that we have a residence for artists.

Michelangelo would have appreciated this

and perhaps even Botticelli.

Galileo would have come here in refuge to observe the stars.

La Macina di San Cresci is a place where painters, sculptors, photographers, writers and artists of any media meet to converse and work together.

Here in the 21st century the Parish Church of San Cresci is little more than a dot on Google Earth,

but it is a replete with history and we are confident of being able to continue offering artists here a creative place for a long time into the future.