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Founded in the year 1100 as a military watchtower, in a strategic point overlooking the valley of the river Pesa, this beautiful property has been of fundamental importance in numerous battles between Florence and Siena.In the following centuries it was enlarged and converted into a convent of nuns. It has hosted various personalities from the Italian Renaissance, including Leonardo da Vinci.It was purchased in the seventeenth century by the noble Florentine family of the Princes Corsini, which later converted it into a farm.In 1983, it was purchased by the present owners, who, after a long and meticulous restoration, has converted into a house and atelier.Even today we can appreciate: the old porch, the well built in the early 1400s, the 1500s oven, the stylish interior arches, an imposing oak wine press that was used to produce oil.This impressive building has a...