06 June \ 10 October 2010

Visitors of Chianti Sculptures Park live a unique experience. In an uncontaminated holm and oak wood, located in the heart of Sienese Chianti, several artists from the fi ve continents, tested their creativity and style out, making huge contemporary art sculptures. Every single sculpture has been proposed by artists after visiting the woods. In this way the union among operas, trees, sounds, colours, light and every element of the woods, is complete. Walking in the nature, admiring fascinating works, is very pleasant.

The first mention of Dievole dates back to 1090 and is about the rent of some sant’Eugenio a Pulisciano monastery properties. Around the half of XIII century it was a Sienese surrounding countryside village. At the end of the XVII century there is a mention about a Malavolti family’s farm, who since early XIV owned possessions around Dievole. In 1825 the settlement is mentioned as set up with a farmhouse and a court, a garden, an oil-press, a granary, a church and further more. In the central part of the place there is a villa, which took the current aspect after a big restoration occurred in XIX century on pre-existent XVI century structures.