Tuscany
Poggibonsi
Poggibonsi looks modern because its medieval predecessor, Poggio Bonizio, was destroyed. The hill of Poggio Imperiale preserves archaeology, a Medici fortress, the extraordinary Fonte delle Fate and an experimental archaeological park, while San Lucchese, the old town, railway and industrial growth explain the later city below.
Stories in Poggibonsi
- Fortezza di Poggio Imperiale: The Medici Build over a Destroyed City
- Cassero della Fortezza: The Inner Stronghold
- Poggio Bonizio Excavations: The Medieval City beneath the Fortress
- Archeodromo di Poggibonsi: Reconstructing Medieval Life experimentally
- Fonte delle Fate: The Fountain that Survived the Lost City
- I Dormienti: Contemporary Art inside a Medieval Fountain
- Poggio Imperiale Panorama: Why the Hill Controlled Valdelsa
- Basilica di San Lucchese: Franciscan Poggibonsi
- San Lucchese Cloister: The Monastery behind the Basilica
- Castello di Badia: Fortified Religious Landscape
- Santuario del Romituzzo: Devotion on the Road
- San Martino a Luco: Rural Church inside the Modern Municipality
- Historic Center: The City Rebuilt below Poggio Bonizio
- Piazza Cavour: Civic Center of the Rebuilt Town
- Collegiata di Santa Maria Assunta: Religious Center below the Fortress
- Palazzo Comunale: Municipal Poggibonsi
- Via Maestra: The Commercial Spine of Modern Poggibonsi
- Poggibonsi-San Gimignano Station: Rail Creates a Valdelsa Hub
- Railway Industrial Edge: Workshops and Freight below the Medieval Hill
- Industrial Poggibonsi: Manufacturing in the Valdelsa
- Medici Wall Walk: Renaissance Geometry on the Hill
- Reconstructed Medieval Street: Archaeology becomes Urban Scale
- Poggio Bonizio Artisan Quarter: Work inside the Lost City
- Via Francigena Corridor: Pilgrims through the Valdelsa
- Staggia Road: The Route toward the Castle Landscape
- Elsa Valley Edge: Water and the Lower Town
- Second World War Memory: The Modern Town under Strategic Pressure
- Postwar Poggibonsi: Rebuilding a Practical City
- Lower Town from Poggio Imperiale: Two Poggibonsi in One View
- Poggibonsi Panorama: Destruction, Reconstruction and Connectivity