"Sarna, a fortified rural small village and its palatium" is the title of a Degree Thesis in Architecture concerning the Castle of Sarna. The definition really expresses the idea of what this so peculiar place is nowadays and what it was in the past. There are many and well visible buildings of medieval origin. Still now you can notice the circular outer edge of the boundaries that surrounded it, especially in the sector that looks toward south-east, the side of the only access road. (Image) Such road is a real "Portaia Tower" that goes well with the bordering buildings to form a non-stop boundary of the perimeter of the Castle. Inside the castle door you can see two floors, one with wooden attic and the other in masonry, placed above the arc. The traces of the wooden parts that completed this structure are lost, but you can still easily see, in a bordering building, a walled-up door, that allowed the direct access to the wooden gallery. The abbot’s palace, that overlooks the small square of the church and dominates the whole small village, was in ancient times a lookout tower, later on turned into the building you can see now, where the abbot went from Arezzo to manage his estate, to enter into contracts, to receive the payment of the rents, as well as to use this building to shelter, together with the bishop of Arezzo, when in the city the plague spread. The structure of the crossover arcades above some internal paths that pass therefore under buildings is really characteristic and quite uncommon in the Casentino. The Church, as well as the Abbey of Arezzo, is named after the Saints Flora and Lucilla.With the last changes done in the second half the XVIII century it is an aisleless church, with trussed roof, with a side chapel devoted to the Virgo and a baptismal font of the beginning of the XIX century. (Image) Singular also the presence of two windows, now walled-up, that were realized by the family Montini, following the papal concession received by the Pope Clemente XIV so to can attend Mass from his home. On one of the windows there is the writing "Domus not gaudet immunitate" to mean that the refuge you got in the church was not valid if you entered the bordering house. Nowadays the abbot's palace contains on the ground floor a permanent show of painting and sculpture of the artists of Artesarna (HYPERLINK "http://www.artesarna.it" www.artesarna.it) and it is used for the presentation of the cultural events that take place during the year. The manor house, the Montini’s ancient residence, has on the basement a very characteristic wine cellar, that still keeps the ancient tubs and barrels by now unused since a long time. On the first floor there is instead the manor residence, that joins the charm of an ancient house with the modern technologies (Sat TV, wi-fi, hydromassage, dishwasher, microwave oven, etc.) with a beautiful entrance lobby used as a living room, a lovely parlour decorated with tempera, the old kitchen turned into a dining room, another parlour, two bedrooms, one with an alcove and the other with a four-poster bed, both with a private bathroom, a well equipped kitchen close to the dining room. On the second floor there are an access parlour, a double bedroom, a bathroom and climbing a wooden small stair you can reach a very bright bedroom overlooking the roofs.