20 June 2010

Villa Chigi Saracini has been built up on the initiative of Count Galgano Saracini who wanted a great decorum house for his family, with a large park to make the most of it. Building the new complex produced a radical alteration of the main urban order, since a big part of castle-walls was been pulled down. The complex (villa-chapel-park) has been carried out between 1820 and 1840 and is partly attributed to Agostino Fantasici. The way the park now looks like is due to Count Guido Saracini, great music lover and founder of Chigiana Music Accademy.

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.