The hidden treasures of the Valdichiana:Shangri-Là of eastern Tuscany - Lorenzo Martini - Bog

The Valdichiana, a district that extends into the eastern part of Tuscany, is a splendid and mysterious land in that the people who have always lived for, on and with the Land (Ceres) boast numerous churches and parish churches, monasteries and convents, built by the common people themselves but also on the commission of patrician families awarded by the House of Lorraine in the 1700s who enriched the churches precisely with works of great artistic value (Flemish, pre-Impressionist, French and even Spanish paintings).Already in earlier centuries the Valdichiana had been disputed between the Guelphs and Ghibellines, and only after the peaceful occupation of the Medici of Florence did it enjoy the embellishment of the same churches with works by pupils but also by the same coeval masters from Siena, Arezzo, Florence and Perugia (pier della Francesca, Andrea del Castagno or the Perugino).