The best running trails around San Giovanni Valdarno

The Basilica Santa Maria delle Grazie is a church of San Giovanni Valdarno, built in 1484 after a miracle attributed to the Madonna. The current façade is in neoclassical style and inside it also houses a museum with works of sacred art, including the Annunciation by Beato Angelico.

During the Fair in Terranuova, the Bird Fair is held on Monday, which now boasts over 400 editions. The event takes place in the public park at the Ciuffenna stream and, although it continues to represent an important appointment for the sale, the exchange of decoy birds has expanded in recent decades and has become a market exhibition of tropical birds, and animals from company. The link with tradition, however, has been maintained thanks to the recent reintroduction of the display of barn and courtyard animals, and the competition The whistle of gold, a competition of imitation of bird verses that brings the best to the village " whistlers "of Italy, and with the. During this event, singing and imitation competitions are held: about thirty "garisti" bring with them to sing about a hundred birds, rock thrushes and song thrushes, blackbirds, finches, sparrows and larks, challenging each other in the respective competition fields. The "snappers" instead imitate the singing of four types of birds, the blackbird, the song thrush, the rock thrush and the lark, and the winner is awarded the golden "snail". FROM THE MUNICIPAL WEBSITE

The center of Terranuova still has a clearly visible layout of a medieval walled land and inside it preserves a remarkable artistic heritage. Wandering through the narrow and straight streets of the town allows you to retrace the path that makes up the grid of the original urban structure, come across the churches of the peoples who came to live here in the fourteenth century, and admire the palaces of the nobles from Terranovesi from the Renaissance period. The visit to the historic center can start from the Ganghereta Church located between the current via Mazzini and via Fazia, on which it has the façade; Then, taking via Mazzini up to the intersection with via Concini, you will find the Church of Pernina, today of the Misericordia. Via Concini is one of the roads that have been best preserved and that have less suffered the passage of the front during the Second World War, continuing towards the south, in fact, there is the Palazzo Concini, home of the historic Terranuovese family, the Hospice of the Friars of Verna and, at the crossroads of via Ricasoli, the Chiesa dei Mori. Always following via Ricasoli you will arrive at the Church of the Well, a few meters from the Benedictine Oratory and its Cloister located in via Fazia. Going along this road again to the intersection with Via Garibaldi, you arrive at Piazza della Repubblica, where on the north side you can see the Archpriesthood of Santa Maria Bambino, and on the east side the modern municipal building. Crossing the square towards Viale Piave is located, close to the walls, the new council chamber obtained from the now deconsecrated church of the White Veste, and, just outside the walls, the modern Church of Santa Maria Nova, designed by Mario Botta. To conclude, we recommend a walk along the main street, via Roma, to discover the facades of the ancient noble palaces such as Palazzo Inghirami.