Castelfalfi

Castelfalfi Synopsis

The first image that is imprinted in the eyes and heart of anyone who has lingered in Castelfalfi even for a few minutes is the green color of its hills; the tender and sweet green that can be seen at the birth of spring, the intense and bright green that shines in the summer sun, dark and severe in the cypresses, shaded and melancholy in autumn, romantic and fragrant in the park.... Closing our eyes and slipping back in time, long before the birth of human beings, we imagine all the greenery of Castelfalfi as an immense blue ocean... thus the hills and cypresses turn into rocks and cetaceans, the vines into schools of iridescent fish, the grass and flowers into starfish and colorful shells.

Tuscany in the Pliocene epoch included many already formed rocky areas such as the Apennine chain or some massifs of central southern Tuscany, much of the remaining territory was covered by sea water such as the area of Volterra and the Era basin where precisely Montaione and consequently Castelfalfi are located. The presence of living beings in the Castelfalfi area probably dates back to the Middle Pleistocene period, that is, the last period of the Pliocene era dating to about 2,500 years before the birth of Christ.