Castello di Bibbione

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The foundations of the Castle go back to the 9th century and the construction was completed in year 1000, while the first group of stone farmhouses dates back to the latter half of the 13th century. Tuscany agritourism accommodations, Tuscany castles and holiday villa. In the Renaissance, the battlements were removed and the fortification was then transformed into a country residence. Holiday villa, Tuscany castles accommodations and agritourism in Tuscany.

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In 1469, the property was sold to Guido Sforza Aldobrandeschi. In 1511, Niccolo Machiavelli (who possessed family estates about 6 km, from Bibbione in Sant’Andrea in Percussina) bought the Castle and the farmland using it as a hunting lodge. The Machiavelli’s remained in possession of the complex until 1727, when the last heir, Francesco Machiavelli, died leaving his cousin, Giovanni Battista Rangoni, a Modenese noble descendent of the Machiavelli, heir to the name and inheritance, title and heraldic arms of Machiavelli who took on the name of Rangoni Machiavelli.

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The entire complex remains bound from 1913, and therefore, under the tutorship of the Superintendent of Culture, Environment and Architecture of Florence and Pistoia. At present, the Marchioness Antonella Rangoni Machiavelli is the proprietor of the estate and personally saw to the renovation of the Castle and medieval village begun in 1985.

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