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The Medieval village of Scrofiano - Sienna (Siena)

Scrofiano is a characteristic medieval village defended on one hill to approximately 400 meters. Here the life seems is stopped to the time of Dante Alighieri and the wars between Guelfi and Ghibellines. It was a castle of the Scialenghi-Cacciaconti, confirmed to Guido Cacciaconti in the 1211 from the emperor Brass IV, then from Federico II in 1220. Inserted in the senese peasantry, a sure administrative and institutional relief had from the second the '200 half of. In the 1296 the Senesi conspiracy promoted from some blanketed one inhabitants of Scrofiano in order to deliver the castle to Ghino di Tacco. It had from the company of the rebel Deo Tolomei towards 1323: in a petition to the General Council of the Republic, the inhabitants complained the fire of all the 400 huts of the circoscrizione. A century after Scrofiano supported victoriously besieges of the military services flourishing some commant from Nicoḷ from Tolentino. The village counts 150 inhabitants.