Lama

Lama is a small hamlet of the municipality of Caprese Michelangelo, located at the foot of Alpe di Catenaia, in a valley at 535 meters above sea level which separates the hill where the Castle of Caprese is located from the nearby Casentino. In this place full of walking paths and crystal clear waters there are also some of the streams that reach the Tiber River. Bozie hamlet is the birthpale of an illustrious astronomer Giovanni Santini who lived between the 18th and 19th centuries and distinguished himself in the field of exact sciences and mathematical astronomy. As professor of Theoretical and Practical Astronomy at the University of Padua and Director of the Astronomical Observatory. Santini made an important contribution to the study of the "little planets" (celestial bodies that orbit around the Sun between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter) and comets.