Farm for sale in Tuscany, farmhouses Chianti Florence Siena

Of all the area in rural Tuscany, Chianti is one of the best known and best loved throughout the world, on a par with the Crete senesi an Valdorcia, albeit for different reasons. The red wine produced here and its prestigious name, Chianti Classico Gallo Nero, have height heightened the allure of a region whose traditional landscape and heritage of rural buildings have been preserved to a remarkable extent. All these things and more make it a popular upmarkettourist destination and it has also long been a much-coveted location for setting up home in the country. Signs of its medieval vitality, however, can still be seen in the number of distinguished homes, tower, prestige properties, castles, luxury villas and Romanesque churches throughout the region and can be deduced by the list of populations or townshipsunited in the Lega del Chianti, now referred to as the true Chianti, i.e. only present day areas of Castellina, Radda and Gaiole. In the second half of the XVIII century a new architectural style was added to the existing fortified villages, parish, church, luxury villa, numerous castles, prestige properties and aristocratic homes that had been appearing, since the end of the XVI century. Simple farm houses were used as a model in the policy af rationalising agricultural resources developed by the Lorainne dynasty. The growth and improvement in the quality of wine production were emblematic of an economic revival.