 Capolona
It lies along the mountain slopes which form the hook where the Arno river “skirts round the Aretines”,”torce il muso”agli Aretini as Dante writes in the “Divina Commedia” (Purgatorio, XV
,48). Of medieval origin, its two sides connected by a Roman bridge, Capolona is the gateway to the Casentino.
In the surrounding green countryside stands the Pieve di Santa Maria Maddalena at Stietina, documented in the XI cent, a small three-nave Romanesque church decorated with frescoes of the XV cent. Aretine school. Noteworthy is the recent Museo dell’Acqua e Laboratorio Didattico Centrale Elettrica La Nussa (Museum of the Waters)
Website: www.comune.capolona.ar.it
Height: m. 263
Post-code: 52010
Km from: Arezzo 12, Firenze 88
Population: 4344
Telephone code: 0575
Useful Information
Public transport: From Arezzo by private railway train Arezzo-Pratovecchio-Stia
How to get there: Autostrada A1 exit Arezzo, then SS.71
Information: Tourist Information Office, Bibbiena
Weekly market
Weekly market: Friday morning
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