Castel Focognano, survey and documentation of a central Apennine borough which has fallen from the provincial capital to a peripheral hamlet, now at risk of abandonment.

The Municipality of Castel San Focognano is located in Tuscany in the province of Arezzo, occupies the eastern side of Pratomagno up to the Arno Valley, at the southern end of the Casentino. The first historical memory dates back to 1028, the castle stood “"in mezzo a tre borri, sopra un dirupato contrafforte orientale di Pratomagno- in the middle of three ditches , above a precipitous eastern buttress of Pratomagno” and was surrounded by a double circle of walls. The Giannellini family maintained its possession until 1322 when it was conquered, after six months of siege, by the bishop of Arezzo Guido Tarlati.