ArchDaily | Broadcasting Architecture Worldwide https://www.archdaily.com/ Mon, 29 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://assets.adsttc.com/doodles/archdaily-logo-feedly.svg 026CB6 https://www.archdaily.com/931689/castel-san-gimignano-cemetery-microscape-architecture-urban-design-aa Sun, 12 Jan 2020 09:00:00 +0000 Paula Pintos https://www.archdaily.com/931689/castel-san-gimignano-cemetery-microscape-architecture-urban-design-aa 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.

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