The Burgh

La Ballerina Di Tolano Etruscan reperts, found in the Sacci Cementery cave (Testi), Museo Archeologico, Firenze

The Burgh During The Centuryes: We find traces of the existance of "Passo dei Pecorai" for the epoch Etrusca: the old street, who cross the Greve river going trhough the burghs of Luciana, Tolano and Ciciano to the farm of Nozzole, in some places is still possible to see the old floor made in stones tipical of the period "Etrusco". The village of Passo dei Pecorai find its reasons to exist in the necessitiy of the sheeperds to brings the sheeps to the fresh and green pastures. This passo dei pecorai - la val di greve. Tutti i diritti riservati.migration called "transumanza" happened two times a year. Since 60 years ago, this was the only way to find fresh grass to the sheeps for all the year. The "Passo dei Pecorai" in fact means "the cross of the sheperds", it’s situated on the way, it’s close to a clean river where it was possible to wash the sheeps: it’s the ideal place. Once a long ago, the restaurant has built in the village: the sheeperds could have a break from a lot of days spent in the woods: a hot dinner and a worm bed to sleep. The payment cosisted in chees and some athers natural products. The traffic of the animals, was very intense until the second great war, the "Podestà" of Greve in Chianti had to make a law to regulate the traffic of the herds.The Passo dei Pecorai was also important because its special geografic ubication. It’s on the cross of the streets from Florence to the high Chianti and Siena, from Greve to the Arno river valley and the ather oldest street to the south toscany. There is probably a relaction among the coat of arms of Greve in Chianti and the village of Passo dei Pecorai. It represents a sheep loking ahead with a flag with a yellow cross. There also a similitude among the Greve flag with the symbol of "the Corporazione della lana in Firenze". In this case the sheep’s looking back and the cross over the sheep’s flag is red. The corformation of the coat of arms help us with a datation in about the XVI century. The origins of the village of Greve (from latinum: suffering, heaviness) come probabily by a pest who attakked the Castle of "Monteficalle" (today "Montefioralle"). during the XI C. The people with this terrible disease had to leave the Castle and they moved close to the river. Maybe the halo on the coat of arms is representing the saviness the people got. The last differnt things among these two coats of arms is the sheep who’s looking ahead on the "Lanaioli’s" and the flag painted in blue with a yellow cross on the Greve’s simbol. There are not any ather news about Greve before the X-XI C. In Passo dei Pecorai the sheeepers were crossing for many, many years.On the hill in front of the hotel, there is S. Angiolio’s "Curch". The first part of the Curch, the bell-tower, was built in the XII C. with the stones of a smaller curch situated close by. The Castle of "Vicchiaccio" was built over the ruins of this last curch. In some rooms of the actual hotel, there were some pictures of the Castle, of "S. Angiolo" Curch and some country scenes, all painted in frescoes. During the last great war, some cannon bullets hit the house and later, it was impossible for us to save the rest of the frescoes. During the last hotel restoring, we had to make new plasters and floors and the original strucure of the house come out: old walls and old floors made in stones. The different age of costruction were visible: first part has built in the XVII C, the second during the XVII and the last on the XIX C.. An historical research, made us sure that in the valley there was an original house from the Epoch Etrusca; there’s also an high possibility that the more important houses of Passo dei Pecorai were the hauses of "Tolano". During these times, it was usual to build the hauses on the hills because the sickness brought by mosquitoes living in the valleys. That’s why the main burgh of "Passo dei Pecorai" was probably the village of Tolano.