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A wedding in the ancient Poppi, a medieval village perched atop a green hill right in the center of the Casentino valley, is a chance to enjoy a place where traditions, magic atmosphere and history have been preserved. It seems a living fragment of a remote past, a town of enchanters, knights, and maidens with long hair at castle windows. It is a town of stone arcades which lead up to a castle, clearly a relative of the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence.
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Its cobbled streets, the piazzas, the medieval buildings with their wooden porticos are those of a city of olden times and everywhere you walk, you stand on a piece of history. Over the centuries this wild and beautiful valley has sheltered a succession of saints, mystics and poets attracted by the peaceful isolation offered by its high peaks and ancient forests. English poet John Milton immortalized it in his epic poem "Paradise Lost" of 1638. |
This ancient Tuscan land is rich with priceless masterpieces of art, castels, hermitages and churches scattered everywhere, immersed in the luxurient Casentino forest that is now a national park. The castle is a jewel of mediaeval art and your wedding ceremony can be performed here, in one of the frescoed halls, or in the covered courtyard adorned by the coat-of-arms of Florentine Vicars over the singular Turriani flight of stairs.A wedding in Poppi will be lovely and unique. |
