Poppi

Main sights

Poppi Castle, or the Castello dei Conti Guidi, the main building in the Casentino, known from 1191, was owned by the Counts Guidi. It has additions by Arnolfo di Cambio. It has a courtyard, an external staircase, its chapel with frescos and its library containing rare manuscripts and incunabula.

Holy Hermitage of Camaldoli, the ancestral seat of the Camaldolese monastic order.

Madonna del Morbo Sanctuary in the centre of the town, containing a painting of the Virgin attributed to Filippino Lippi.

The annual festival commences in the upper town on 29 June, when a large procession bears the image of the Virgin from the Church of Madonna del Morbo to the Church of Saints Marco and Lorenzo, where it remains for the duration of the week.

The Museo e Arboreto Carlo Siemoni is a historic ducal villa and arboretum in Badia Prataglia, where there is also the Parish Church of Santa Maria Assunta which dates back to the 10th Century.

Palazzo Crudeli, birthplace of Tommaso Crudeli condemned by the Catholic Church as heretic. He belonged to the first Freemason Lodge of Italy established by the English colony in Florence, 1732. He died in the same Palazzo after torture and imprisonment.

Museum Affaire Crudeli and Human Rights.

Saverio, a 19-year old tuxedo cat who serves as Poppi's unofficial mayor.