Places
San Martino in Grania
ASCIANO
GRANIA OR GRANCIA OF CRETA. Farmhouse with a plebeian church( San Martino), about 9 km north-westwards from Asciano is a clayed hill between the Grania ditch, which flows through it westwards and the Arbiola ditch which flanks it eastwards; both of them are confluent of river Arbia, which flows not far from the farmhouse of Grania. It is first mentioned in 1038 in a contract signed in san Martino, called Grania, with which Guido, son of another Guido, and Ildebrando, son of Ranieri of Sarteano, promised to the Abbot of the Monastery of San Salvatore of Mount Amiata not to take the goods of the monastery in the country-side of Chiusi, receiving in exchange for this promise a reward of 100 denary by the above-mentioned abbot. Then the parish of San Martino in Grania and the homonymous castle are mentioned in the Bill of the Pope Clemente III, sent on the 20th April 1198 to Buono, bishop of Siena, where it was confirmed to the sienese cathedral the ancient rights which this last one had over the parish of San Martino in Grania and on the castle itself. The small commune of Grania and that of San Martino in Grania were joined together with the community of Asciano with a special regulation of the 9th December 1777. In the church of San Martino in Grania there is a splendid painting by Francesco Vanni, described for a long time by Guglielmo della Valle in his Sienese Letters. (Tome II)GRANIA OR GRANCIA OF CRETA. Farmhouse with a plebeian church( San Martino), about 9 km north-westwards from Asciano is a clayed hill between the Grania ditch, which flows through it westwards and the Arbiola ditch which flanks it eastwards; both of them are confluent of river Arbia, which flows not far from the farmhouse of Grania. It is first mentioned in 1038 in a contract signed in san Martino, called Grania, with which Guido, son of another Guido, and Ildebrando, son of Ranieri of Sarteano, promised to the Abbot of the Monastery of San Salvatore of Mount Amiata not to take the goods of the monastery in the country-side of Chiusi, receiving in exchange for this promise a reward of 100 denary by the above-mentioned abbot. Then the parish of San Martino in Grania and the homonymous castle are mentioned in the Bill of the Pope Clemente III, sent on the 20th April 1198 to Buono, bishop of Siena, where it was confirmed to the sienese cathedral the ancient rights which this last one had over the parish of San Martino in Grania and on the castle itself. The small commune of Grania and that of San Martino in Grania were joined together with the community of Asciano with a special regulation of the 9th December 1777. In the church of San Martino in Grania there is a splendid painting by Francesco Vanni, described for a long time by Guglielmo della Valle in his Sienese Letters. (Tome II)