The Town of Sun

Like a new Babel tower

In the middle of Renaissance, one of the most important family of Florence, wishing have a holiday home, decided to built a... whole town up this mountain.

The family was the famous Medici of Florence, represented by Cosimo de' Medici, and the mountain is Sasso Simone (or "of Simone"), about 1200 m high. It's located between Marche and Tuscany, were arrived (yes! it "walked" :-) ) 15 million years ago from the Tyrrhenian Sea.
In the flat top of it Cosimo de' Medici founded this new town named "Città del Sole" (Town of Sun) and this was its coat of arms.

  There was all you nead in a town but the inhabitants. It survived only one century, from 1566 (the first stone) to 1673. The reason? You'll don't believe it... it was too cold. We was in the age of little glaciation (XVI-XVIII centuries).

The one on the left is "Simoncello".

Going up and walking on the original road...

Simoncello from Sasso Simone