Badia Tedalda

Abbey Tedalda is an ancient earth Benedictine object of arguments, both for the interest aroused by the forests used for the "servitium trabium", both for her strategic position.

For this subsequently had to also pass under the jurisdiction of the Bishop of City of Castle.

Benedictine power stopped when the pope granted Bonifacio VIII to the Accounts of Montedoglio to protect the monastery and the castle of Abbey Tedalda.


The dominion of the Montedoglios lasted up to 1385 year when the territory passed under the Florentine Republic. Florence occupied these earths in 1445, and in 1489 it imposed her statutes.

To the begin of the sec. XVI the fathers cassinesis in Florence received the charge to administer the territory.

Returned then under the direct administration of the Medici, Abbey Tedalda followed the fates in Tuscany medicea and of that lorenese.

Ancient earth of shepherds, woodmen and coalmen, itineraries it is lent to a foot and to horse.

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