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Castello di Tornano was the seat of a curtis from the very early years after the year one thousand. It was recalled in the papers of the Abbey of Coltibuono as the place in which many contracts were stipulated. In 1167 Frederick 1st took it away from the Sienese noble Guarnellotto dei Mezzolombardi, guilty of having rebelled against the imperial authority, and bestowed it on Ranieri de’ Firidolfi Ricasoli. But Barbarossa’s wishes remained a dead letter for a long while. Guarnellotto, unknowingly supported by the Sienese authorities, in fact held control of Tornano and of the nearby castle of Campi. It was only after the adjuducation of Poggibonsi, with which the castle passed into the Florentine territory, that Tornano could be taken away from the excessive power of the rebel noble. Even subsequently however, Siena did not completely abandon its ambitions for the castle, which rose on a little hill rising steeply above the Massellone stream. It took it by force in 1229, in fact, only to lose it again six years later. During the two Aragonese invasione in the 15th century, it resisted the enemy troops remarkably well. But in 1530, the castle was conquered by the imperial armies.
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