Historical figures that represent the territory

In the heart of Val di Cornia, on the first floor of the Rocca Aldobrandesca, the story of Emperor Henry VII of Luxembourg, who arrived in Italy in 1313 with his army, is reconstructed.

He fought the enemies of the Empire in Tuscany until 24 August 1313, when he died of malaria at Buonconvento, near Siena. The army began a laborious retreat, taking Henry’s corpse with it and stopped at Suvereto, where the body was laid out in the church of San Giusto before being buried in Pisa.

Another room is dedicated to the Princess Elisa Bonaparte Baciocchi, Napoleon’s sister. After becoming Emperor of France, in 1805 Napoleon entrusted the Principality of Piombino, to which Suvereto belonged, to Elisa and her husband, Captain Felice Baciocchi. Under Elisa’s leadership, Suvereto saw a wave of innovation in the institutional, economic and health sectors as well as the revival of mining activities at Montioni and the planting of new vineyards for the use of the French and bedrock of the present day top quality wines produced in the area.

Wines that find space in the room on the top floor of the Rocca, where the past and future of the village live together, with the projection of historical photographs of the village, of its inhabitants and their activities and the exhibition of the DOCG wines of Suvereto.