The street that leads to
Montalcino will allow for an appreciation of the true beauty of the place.
Having arrived at the summit the eyes can behold the splendour of an ample and varied
panorama from the Senese hills to the mountains of Amiata. The fortress (constructed to
defend the territory in 1361 by the Senese Mino Foresi and Domenico di Feo utilizing the
already pre-existing thirteenth-century wall) rises to the highest point of the city and
dominates the surrounding valleys. On the wall of one of the center rooms hangs a Standard
attributed to the Sodoma school. The center of this small town is exemplary of the
architecture of the late Middle Ages. Following the road across from the fortress you will
find on via Ricasoli a gothic marble portal and a rose window that beautify the simple
basic Romanesque facade of the Church of Sant'Agostino (thirteenth-century). Nearby,
although it will soon be moved to the convent of the church of Sant' Agostino, you will
find the Musei Riuniti (civico and Diocesano). The museums contain pieces of outstanding
art work such as a Wooden Cross painted in the twelfth of thirteenth-centuries by an
unknown artist. It is one of the oldest Senese works. There are also an Angelo annunciate
and a Madonna annunciata, two beautiful wooden sculptures from the early fifteenth-
century, as well as a Saint Sebastian and a Madonna with Saints done in Robbian
terracotta. The Duomo (San Salvatore) can be reached by going to the right after leaving
the museum. The Senese architect Agostino Fantastici Planned a project (1812-32) to
restructure to pre-existing church into the neo-classical norm which dominated the time.
Proceed downhill to arrive at the Piazza del Popolo where the Palazzo Comunale (or dei
Priori) stands. In the square is La Loggia which was constructed in the fourteenth and
fifteenth centuries. In The contrada of Castelvecchio, is the Church of San Francesco
(XIII century) wich as been redone over the course of time. Inside are the frescoes by
Vincenzo Tamagni painted in the early sixteenth-century. Just a few kilometers from
Montalcino rises the Abbazia di Sant'Antimo (1118). This is one of the most beautiful
Romanseque monastic churches in existence. Its Romanesque-Lombard style gives its
structure both a physical force and delicacy at the same time.
The street that leads to
Montalcino will allow for an appreciation of the true beauty of the place.
Having arrived at the summit the eyes can behold the splendour of an ample and varied
panorama from the Senese hills to the mountains of Amiata. The fortress (constructed to
defend the territory in 1361 by the Senese Mino Foresi and Domenico di Feo utilizing the
already pre-existing thirteenth-century wall) rises to the highest point of the city and
dominates the surrounding valleys. On the wall of one of the center rooms hangs a Standard
attributed to the Sodoma school. The center of this small town is exemplary of the
architecture of the late Middle Ages. Following the road across from the fortress you will
find on via Ricasoli a gothic marble portal and a rose window that beautify the simple
basic Romanesque facade of the Church of Sant'Agostino (thirteenth-century). Nearby,
although it will soon be moved to the convent of the church of Sant' Agostino, you will
find the Musei Riuniti (civico and Diocesano). The museums contain pieces of outstanding
art work such as a Wooden Cross painted in the twelfth of thirteenth-centuries by an
unknown artist. It is one of the oldest Senese works. There are also an Angelo annunciate
and a Madonna annunciata, two beautiful wooden sculptures from the early fifteenth-
century, as well as a Saint Sebastian and a Madonna with Saints done in Robbian
terracotta. The Duomo (San Salvatore) can be reached by going to the right after leaving
the museum. The Senese architect Agostino Fantastici Planned a project (1812-32) to
restructure to pre-existing church into the neo-classical norm which dominated the time.
Proceed downhill to arrive at the Piazza del Popolo where the Palazzo Comunale (or dei
Priori) stands. In the square is La Loggia which was constructed in the fourteenth and
fifteenth centuries. In The contrada of Castelvecchio, is the Church of San Francesco
(XIII century) wich as been redone over the course of time. Inside are the frescoes by
Vincenzo Tamagni painted in the early sixteenth-century. Just a few kilometers from
Montalcino rises the Abbazia di Sant'Antimo (1118). This is one of the most beautiful
Romanseque monastic churches in existence. Its Romanesque-Lombard style gives its
structure both a physical force and delicacy at the same time.