Apartment via Don Giovanni Minzoni, Centro, Volterra

Volterra. In the heart of the historic center of Volterra is this charming apartment located on the second and top floor of the Bartalini - Baldelli building whose origins are estimated to date back to medieval times. In these 170 square meters of property you can breathe all the history and the care of the hands that have lived and preserved it over all these years. The apartment is on two levels, where the first is composed of a large living area with beamed ceiling, a kitchen with an original wood-burning oven of the time, a double bedroom currently used as a study and bathroom. Upstairs, in the attics with ancient beams, there are two large double bedrooms, one with a walk-in closet, an elegant bathroom and a closet. Due to its particular location, the property lends itself to being lived as a first home or as a B&B activity. The area near Piazza Dei Priori is very quiet. All the main monuments of the city are in close proximity. Services such as shops, restaurants, banks and car parks are under the house.
Brief historical notes on the ancient Casa Bartalini-Baldelli. fire affixed to this part of the city in the siege of 1530 by Francesco Ferrucci. He, a man of the people and of war, a fighter for the freedom of the fatherland, had the task of the Republic of Florence to restore order in Volterra, after the city itself had revolted against the Florentine captains for the bad governance carried out. on 26 April 1530 with his troops in the city, besieged by the insurgents, Ferrucci very soon managed to reconquer it and, after the arrival of the papal imperials, under the leadership of Fabrizio Maramaldo and the Marquis Del Vasto, he was able to defend it as the last of the bulwarks The first stretch of this road, from Porta a Selci to the Church of Sant'Agostino, was called Via della Porta a Selci or Via della contrada di San Piero or Porta a Selci and, in many documents, also Via del Piano di Porta a Selci.
It was so called, because it took its name from the door through which it was accessed and reached as far as Piazza Sant'Agostino. The reason for this ancient name could be traced back to the fact that, while all the streets of the city were paved with bricks placed with a knife, only the street near the Porta a Selci, which continued almost in a straight line up to the village of San Lazzaro, was all paved with small stones.
At the house numbers from 40 to 46, we find the ancient Casa Bartalini-Baldelli. noble tower, consisting of two distinct units.
The first at nos. 44-46 was originally a valuable stone tower attributable to shortly before the thirteenth century and of which numerous traces remain such as the strut--2e7e1a66dfbf36b1bcac972f488e5426!