Lucignano is a small Tuscan village of medieval origins in the province of Arezzo.
The shape of the village is an ellypse with various spyral-wise circles.
To run along its routes it seems to play in a labyrinth that ends up in the high area of the village, including the Communal Palace, the Church of Saint Francesco and the Collegiata.
The urban setting shows a "rich way", matching the actual Via Matteotti where the residential houses built up by aristocracy lay, and a "poor way", matching the actual Via Roma (also called CORSICA) where the smallest houses,featured by a poor architecture andbuolt up by the poorest class in the village lay.
Lucignano lays at 414 metriabove sea level, it has a dominant position over Chiana Valley and along the route between Siena and Arezzo.
For about 3 centuries in the Early Middle Age the village has passed continously from the jurisdictions of SIena, Arezzo, Firenze and Perugia.
the town who gave it the chance to use the former's escutcheon (used still nowadays) of the winged Grifon, to which a star was added to show that the place lays upon a hill.
The name "Lucignano" probably comes from a roman castrum founded by the Consul Licinio from the homonimous family and it became Lucinianum after the conquest by Lucio Silla in the Ist century before Christ; moreover some important archaeological findings dated of Etruscan eve and found in different places mark to us the presence of settlements already in that eve.
Nowadays the village maintains intact its charme of ancient village that has known how to preserve a quiet and joyful image where the agricultural and artisan tradition offer the visitor an interesting image range of products; from the precious Extra Virgin Olive Oil to the honey, from the production and recovering of furniture to the intaglio work, from the very precious production of ceramics to goldsmith, from the traditional working of stone to travertine to reach eventually the production of item of clothing of high quality, thaks to the capacity and experience of professionally instructed staff.
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