Gaiole in Chianti, 3 km from Radda in Chianti, 30 km from Siena, 40 km from Florence

Our perfectly typical Chianti house, in a Renaissance painting-like scenery, has its central core dating back to the XIth C. but the origins can be traced back to the Etruscan-Roman period:

The house has been lovingly and tastefully renovated and decorated by her recently departed mistress, Marisa Marino in Forcheri, with the help of her daughter Paola. In 2014 the other Marisa’s daughter Nicoletta started the work of improving the decoration and the appearance of the estate.  

The area of San Donato in Perano is considered an important archaeological area. The ruins, dating back to the Bronze and the Iron Aged located on the hill-top close to theSS429 between Castellina and Radda, could extend  in the direction of the Radda-Fontecaresino route. That would indicate the site has been inhabiteds since prehistoric times (8-7th century BC).
Traces of a house at La Casa (640 m asl) can be observed in a woodland west of the farm estate near  the Piana torrent  (short segments of dry wall with squared  stones  for a range of 8*10 m; brick and ceramic material). (1st c. BC/1st C. AC) (cfr. Carta Archeologica della Provincia di Siena, I, Il Chianti senese, p. 252 nos. 177, 179).

La Casa di San Donato in Perano is surrounded by a beautiful garden in an olive-grove with a 12*6 m pool with a panoramic situation and furnished comfortable terraces to eat outside.

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About the complex of San Donato in Perano, of which La Casa was an asset, we can read in San Donato in Perano by Francesca Marchetti and Donatella Tognaccini, Ed. Polistampa, 2007:

“The toponomy of San Donato in Perano was mentioned for the first time in November 1112 in a reference to a sale of plots of land in San Donato in Perano to the Badia di Coltibuono by the married couple Anselmo and Parenza. In the second half of the 12th century, the location was mentioned s a boundary in a donation of land and assets for the same monastery.

Toponomy information, archaeological finds, the presence of ecclesia S Donati, in existence in 995, leads us to believe that this location , particlularly suitable for agricultural development, has been inhabiteds since ancient periods, most likely it was a farm from the Roman Republican age or a villa from the Imperial age, that continues through late antiquity until its transformation in to a medieval curtis”.