Location - Le Bruciate
Le Bruciate is located just 10 kilometres from Cortona. This beautiful old stone farmhouse offers a breathtaking 180 degree panorama. South facing and overlooking both the Val d'Esse and Valdichiana, it is within a few minutes drive of two small villages which, together, are excellently serviced by two small supermarkets, a post office, a garage, a hotel and restaurant, a plant shop, hardware store and hairdressers.

History of Cortona
Floating high above the Valdichiana plain on terraced slopes of olives and vines, Cortona (pop 27,000) figures among the crown jewels of Tuscan hill towns. SOme 600m above sea level, sweeping down a spur of Monte Sant'Egidio, Cortona's crooked, cobblestone streets climb preciptuoulsly to the Medici fortress - even halfway up, between the houses, you can see Lake Trasimeno in Umbria and MOunts Amiata and Cetona near Siena. In Cortona, where babes are born with their heads in the clouds, three became celebrated artists: Luca Signorelli; Baroque painter Pietro Berrettini (1596-1669), better known as Pietro da Cortona, master of the rooms in the Pitti Palace; and Futurist-Impressionist-mosaicist Gino Severini (1883-1966), all of whom left works in their hometown.

As a medieval comune, Cortona held its own against Perugia, Arezzo and Siena, while internally its Ghibellines and Guelphs battled until the Ghibellines came out on top, and when that fight was settled the ruling family, the Casali, spent the 14th century bumping each other off. This typicalTuscan feast of self-destruction ended in 1409, when King Ladislas of Naples captured the city and sold it to the Florentines at a handsome profit.

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