Laterina

The name of Laterina takes its name for a vast range of brick kilns, widely used during the period Etruscan and Roman. In medieval town was an important castle. The part of the ancient village situated around the square on which overlooks the Church of Saints Ippolito and Cassiano. On the side of the building is a mosaic of arising from the parish. On top of the hills in the area are a very impressive campaign, which it is possible to discover the ancient architectures rural type, consisting of ancient farmhouses and houses leopoldine with dovecotes. After an initial Roman, and subsequently was a feudal, and then podestà. Laterina, from the early century, it was a fief of Ubertini of Arezzo. Through its strategic position, turned into a starting point of raids and the Ghibellines Arezzo in Valdarno. In the thirteenth century was the domain of Florence, whose munirono a fortress. In 1304 he returned power in the hands of Ubertini that occupied and besieged the castle. Destroyed in 1326 by Guido Tarlati, in the early decades of 1300, when he was elected Bishop of Arezzo Buoso of Ubertini, Laterina was delivered by the Florentines, who eventually to the new construction of the fort.

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