the boundaries of the Chianti district, which was the first legal document in the world to define a wine production area.

The villages of Chianti are often characterized by Romanesque churches and fortified medieval castles, signs of the ancient wars between Siena and Florence or as Monteriggioni, a fortified village north of Siena, on the ancient Via Cassia that leads to Florence.

In 1932, the wine designation specified the production limits

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