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Architects: MICROSCAPE architecture urban design AA
- Area: 600 m²
- Year: 2019
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Photographs:Filippo Poli
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Manufacturers: Biol Soil Expert, Bosisio, Unibloc
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Lead Architects: Patrizia Pisaniello, Saverio Pisaniello
Text description provided by the architects. At the end of the 1200s, San Gimignano and Colle Val d'Elsa achieved full autonomy as free Municipalities and a pact of friendship was established between the two, which defined the territorial areas and expansion policies. Between 1309 and 1320, a mighty castle was erected on Monte Dei Lecci, acting as a line of demarcation and control. The town that soon sprang up around it was called Castel di San Gimignano. Before the 1300s there was already a church dedicated to Santa Cristina located in a small group of rural houses and farms in the area where the cemetery was built. The cemetery of Castel San Gimignano is a paradigmatic example of a "camposanto" in the Tuscan countryside: an expression of the civitas found in the village and its agricultural land, a source of life.
