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Buonconvento is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Siena in the Italian region Tuscany, located about 70 kilometres (43 mi) south of Florence and about 25 kilometres (16 mi) southeast of Siena in the area known as the Crete Senesi.Buonconvento (from the Latina bonus conventus", "happy place") is mentioned for the first time in 1100; thirteen years later the German emperor Henry VII died here.
It was surrounded by a line of walls starting from 1371, carried on by the Republic of Siena to which it belonged until 1559, when it became part of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany. It was annexed to Italy in 1861.
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It was surrounded by a line of walls starting from 1371, carried on by the Republic of Siena to which it belonged until 1559, when it became part of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany. It was annexed to Italy in 1861.
www.comune.buonconvento.siena.it/on-line/Home.html
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buonconvento
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Coordinates: 43°7'51"N 11°29'0"E
- Borgo Finocchieto 2.3 km
- Agriturismo La Ripolina 3.3 km
- Castello di Saltemnano 4.5 km
- Villa IL Poggino 4.6 km
- Agriturismo IL Poderuccio 5.1 km
- Abbey of Monte Oliveto Maggiore 7 km
- Casa Bolsinina 7.4 km
- Il Bosco della Ragnaia 8.8 km
- Villa Scannelli 10 km
- Pienza 19 km