Londa Leggio 2 Audio: Incastellamento e Origini del Toponimo

Londa Leggio 2 Eng: Encastellation

Since the Bronze Age, this valley has represented a very important road junction for the Val di Sieve thanks to the Via Etrusca, being the Londa territory in a central position between Mugello and Casentino, and indirectly connected to Romagna. Already garrisoned by...
Londa Leggio 1 Video: ANTICHE PIETRE ETRUSCHE FIESOLANE

Etruscan stones from Fiesole in Londa

FromRoman Imperial period sources the area of Londa was an Etruscan Pagus, that is a community tolerated and incorporated into the imperial centuriation. Like most of the Etruscan and Villanovan settlements (Bronze Age), there were small agricultural communities that...