Journey to Michelangelo's country

Caprese Michelangelo - When a place gives birth to one of the most prestigious personalities of our beautiful country, it can only inherit its name and history, boasting such great exclusivity. Caprese Michelangelo contains in its name the story of the great artist whose works are known and appreciated by all and thanks to which Italy boasts an important primacy for artistic heritage.

It is almost superfluous to say that everything here smells of renaissance, as if time had stopped at that event that wrote much of the artistic history of our country. However, only in the mid-nineteenth century, with the discovery of Buonarroti's birth certificate, the Caprese Castle where the famous artist was born was redeveloped, making it a real place of profane worship used as a museum containing some reproductions of the his works. History tells that Caprese extended his name to Michelangelo only in the early 1900s, when that fundamental historical discovery was made. Attached to Michelangelo's birthplace there is another place of interest, namely the Church of San Giovanni Battista where the artist was baptized. Caprese certainly owes much of its popularity to its famous birthplace, but anyone who stops there will discover a fascinating medieval village surrounded by large chestnut groves. Here the brown, a precious variety of chestnut, is born and grows, and lives the longest-lived and imposing chestnut in Europe, whose estimated age is about 700 years. Arezzo's Tuscany is a treasure trove to discover and explore with a pinch of all-Italian pride. In these countryside, in these streets, in these villages, one of the most prosperous periods in the history of our country began and sorry if it is little.