The birth of the village of Capolona reminds back to the Middle Age; nowadays only a few buildings almost recovered remain of the ancient nucleus tha once stood along the shore of the river Arno and linked to the opposite shore by a bridge - maybe dated of Roman Eve - frequently recovered and almost completely destroyed in 1944 and successfully built up again.
It faces just over the main square of the village of Capolona wherein its Commune Palace lays.
Nowadays Capolona is an industrial and handicraft centre with a modern look that gets continuously richer and richer though it still preserves the simplicity it has always had and the attachment to popular traditions.
In the last years tourism has registered a strong increase thanks to the presence of several farm holidays that were born through the green hills that feature the Commune land.
The Commune of Capolona offers several occasions to amuse oneselves all over the year as a witness of a living land and always searching for news; from the peasant feasts that sign the time passing by, to the cinema parades to the open air and theatre representations, and for the young people there are puppet shows and laboratories and eventually cultural events such as congresses, shows and concerts of different kinds so to satisfy young and less young people.
Within the Commune of Capolona there are: Castelluccio and the Sietina Parish Church.
The Sietina parish church is a small pagan church that lays in a plain land on the Arno right shore, between the centre of Capolona and the Castelluccio village.
The Sietina church is the sole Parish church in Casentino Valley where still nowadays you can see the frescoes.
While entering the curch you are hit by an impressive effect caused by the pavement, lower than the main level, and the frescoes on the walls can still transmit strong feelings. In 1022 it was already known under the name of Santa Maria Maddalena in Setrina but in 1373 it passed under the dominion of the well known family De bacci from Arezzo.
Inside the parish church shows an unusual architectural structure compared to the other parish churches that lay in Casentino Valley.
It has three apses with three naves shared by four sets of arches leaning on columns with a rectangular base. The frescoes refer to two different periods. A group is done in Gothic eve and the other in the Renaissance eve.
Beneath the fresco of the Announciation you can find the writing with the date of 1490 and the name of the client.