It is a story of the Chianti landscape that unites places, people, territories, traditions, cultures of a distant past that loves to be discovered in the present.. A unique journey, a common breath that from the medieval village of Montefiorallerecently crowned among the most beautiful villages in Italy, blows and extends up to the monastic complex of Badia a Passignano. This is the story that the Rai 1 cameras, with the well-known television format of the flagship network “Explora Green Line“, Led by Federico Quaranta and Daria Luppino, have decided to entrust the hills of Greve in Chianti to the millenary castle that was once called Monteficalli, due to the presence of fig trees in the area, and to the woods dotted with olive trees and vineyards which embrace the extraordinary monastic complex of Passignano, also dating back to the year 1000, in the municipality of Barberino Tavarnelle.
The beauty, the origins and the contemporary vitality of two of the most emblematic monumental sites in Chianti are at the center of the new episode of Rai 1 which aired today Saturday 22 October at 12.00. In Montefioralle the narration took place above all in the alleys, arches, streets, historic buildings of the ancient village, such as the church of Santo Stefano, where a prestigious historical-artistic heritage of the medieval era is exhibited. In Passignano the journey of Federico Quaranta and Daria Luppino made a stop between the internal and external environments of one of the oldest abbeys in Italy where generations of Benedictine monks have lived and have lived for centuries, making the culture of hospitality and spirituality coexist with beauty and the value of the masterpiece of one of the most important Italian painters of the 15th century. The special of Linea Verde Explora dedicated to Tuscany showed in all its magnificence the fresco “The Last Supper”, painted by Domenico Ghirlandaio in 1476 in the hall of the monastic refectory.
“We are happy – declare the councilors for tourism Giulio Saturnini for Greve in Chianti and Tatiana Pistolesi for Barberino Tavarnelle – to place the treasures kept in our territories at the center of a successful program, such as the one that has kept the public of Rai 1 glued for more than 40 years, the program tells with great attention to the themes of agriculture, biodiversity, stories of Chianti, ours are villages that have a wealth to enhance, support and promote, they constitute a heritage of architecture, memories, testimonies of the past but also flavors, traditions, typical local products that continue to live thanks to those who live there and they keep them alive ”.
“Do not miss the Green Line journey in our Chianti – they insist – a crossroads of timeless beauty, a homogeneous light that spreads from the towns to the countryside and crosses unique places rich in nature, culture and flavors”.
To review the episode: https://www.raiplay.it/programmi/lineaverdeexplora
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Published October 22, 2022