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The fifteenth and the sixteenth century
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Between the second half of the fifteenth and
the sixteenth century Chianciano found the fit to face with
a firm renewal, that was however disturbed by several difficulties:
- the conflicts with Montepulciano, to define the boundaries
- a new plague epidemic in 1476
- Carlo from Montone's invasion in 1477
- the repeated pillages and the destruction of harvests after
the attack of the King of Naples and the Pope against Siena
and Florence in 1478
- the occupation, on the 18th January 1503, by the Duke Valentine
(Cesare Borgia)
- a new terrible plague in 1526
However both cattle-breeding and agriculture continued to sustain
economy. The war between the Republic of Siena and the Dukedom
of Florence at the half of the sixteenth century broke up this
stage of relative growth. Chianciano engaged all its means in
it, with grave human and economic losses. Walls were destroyed,
houses set on fire, the people halved. Subjected to Florence,
Chianciano was then reconstructed by Cosimo I Medici.
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| From the seventeenth-century crisis to the
twentieth-century magnificence |
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At the end of the eighteenth century Chianciano
began to realise the possibilities deriving from the exploitation
of waters and built the first thermal establishments. Its
history from the nineteenth century will be strictly linked
with the Thermal Baths vicissitudes, with their management,
with the investments the Commune will decide to sustain in
order to increase their value. In 1777 in the purpose of reducing
the minor municipalities Pietro Leopoldo deprived Chianciano
people of their autonomy, absorbing them into Sarteano together
with Cetona.
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