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Orgia Borgolozzi Clear signs indicate that in the year;1000 the church of the Holy Trinity stood in Borgolozzi. In this building six recently refurbished apartments are located today,they still preserve some medieval characteristic. The building is surrounded by an enclosed park , the apartments each have private entrance an look onto a large terrace from where one can enjoy beautiful views of Siena and the chalk hills. An area has been fitted with a barbecue and log oven. The terrace leads to the garden with a swimming pool (7x14m.,depth 2,60m.). The apartments La Vigna e La Piscina are located here. A wood adjoins the garden where one can relax. On its borders there is the Museo del bosco (Museum of the Woods) run by the Tuscan Region. This is the starting point for several traced paths which lead in to the woods through which you can find the clear waters of the river Merse where you can swim and the river Farma with its hot therapeutic waters (42 degrees)
history
Orgia Borgolozzi as it was This picturesque group of hills surrounded by the river Merse owes its origins to the pagan feasts celebrated here in honour of Baccus , the ‘Orgies’le Orgy (*1) Pieces of Etruscan walls prove that the place was undoubtedly inhabited since remote times. Two churches,one dedicated to Saint Paul and the other in Borgolozzi dedicated to the Holy Trinity with an annexed hospital , date back to early Christian times and bear witness that the area was densely populated. Documents exist until the year 730 with a gap of over three centuries bringing us to the second part of the year one thousand when Orgia became a castle which was later destroyed by the Republic of Siena in a sudden attack on Saturday thirteenth September 1156 (*2). In 1337 the castle is included in a list of castles which were not allowed to take in bandits and since that date no further documents are available and we have no idea when the castle was definitely destroyed. On its ruins the descendents of Pope Pius II ,the Piccolomini Counts , built a Villa which still today is known as The Castell.
(*1) (Titus S., tom III in the Siena library) page 44.) (*2) (Siena libr. Cod.T.l.2 , p.1)
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