While visiting Tuscany you can’t miss to notice the beauty of Monteriggioni, which stands on the top of a low hill cultivated with grapevines and olive trees. In the year 1000, Monteriggioni was a thriving town. The castle however, wasn’t built till 1213. It was built by the Republic of Siena who wanted it to be a kind of defensive outpost on the main road between Florence and Siena. It was one of the first castles built by the Siense who, until then, had always used the fortresses of weak feudal families.
Nowadays, Monteriggioni preserves many of its thirteenth-century’s buildings and this is why its an absolutely unique place in the Medieval Tuscan towns scenery. Monteriggioni’s surrounding walls have a circulare shape and it’s long about 570 mt., with fourtheen towers blinking at you from the hill. The inner town is built around the big rectangular square in which is set the church of Santa Maria Assunta; this latest element is the one that better preservs the tipical Medieval characteristics, but the whole town – whith its little streets – is full of ancient charm and origins.
Source: http://www.turismo.intoscana.it
CURIOSITY: did you know Monteriggioni is also called Porta del Medievo (Door of the Middle Age)? And more: the historical commemoration Monteriggioni di Torri si Corona (Monteriggioni of Towers Crowned) takes its name from a famous verse of Dante’s Inferno (XXXI, 41).
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