Montepulciano - Montepulciano

Disambiguation - For toponyms of identical name, see Montepulciano (disambiguation).

Montepulciano is a city of Tuscany.

To know

Sixteenth-century Florentine enclave in the Republic of Siena, is the hometown of Agnolo (Angelo) Ambrogini, called Poliziano, from the Latin name Mons Politianus Montepulciano is also the birthplace of Agnese Segni, proclaimed a saint by Pope Benedict XIII.

It has been defined "The pearl of the sixteenth century".

Geographical notes

The city is located on a ridge, which divides the Val d'Orcia from Val di Chiana. The municipal territory extends in the south-eastern sector of the region bordering theUmbria and not far from Lazio.

Background

Of Etruscan origin and founded, according to legend, by Porsenna; some documents and artifacts found in the Fortress, date its existence back to the IV-III century BC. In Roman times it was the seat of an army placed to defend the consular roads. It was evangelized by San Donato, bishop of Arezzo in the 4th century.

In the XII century the Republic of Siena wanting to subdue Montepulciano, free and rich, she started a series of wars, which the Poliziani fought with the help of Perugia and of Orvieto, but more assiduously and with mixed results, with the support of Florence.

At the beginning of the thirteenth century the vitality of the city, promoted by the initiative of the mercantile, manufacturing and agricultural bourgeoisie, began to attract the aims of Florence and Siena. The fourteenth century was marked by strong disputes for power between the major families; a relative stability occurred under the Del Pecora family who, divided within them in supporting Florence, Siena or Perugia, became Lords of Valiano and tyrants of Montepulciano.

In 1390 Montepulciano made a permanent alliance with Florence, which wanted to have a strategic stronghold south of Siena.

From the early fifteenth to the mid-sixteenth century, Montepulciano had its own golden period, marked by political stability, cultural prestige, artistic flourishing.

The fifteenth century was the era of the humanist Bartolomeo Aragazzi, apostolic secretary of Pope Martin V and the poet Angelo Poliziano. An exceptional building fervor marked the sixteenth century: architects such as Antonio da Sangallo the Elder, Jacopo Barozzi known as Vignola, Baldassarre Peruzzi, Ippolito Scalza erected sumptuous patrician residences, splendid churches and various points of the urban center were embellished. During this period, Cardinal Marcello Cervini lived, who sat on the papal throne for only 28 days with the name of Marcello II.

From 1559, with the submission of Siena to the Medici principality, Montepulciano lost part of its past strategic and political importance, but maintained its prestige. Historical Polizian families of the Nobles, Tarugi, Contucci, Bellarmino, Ricci, Cervini, Benci, Cini, Cocconi and numerous others settled in Montepulciano, who gave great men to the Church, to letters, to the arts and to arms: a supreme pontiff, numerous cardinals, many dozen bishops, prominent prelates in large numbers and a great number of men who were excellent in many disciplines. One of his most affectionate sons, Cardinal Giovanni Ricci, in 1561, obtained from Pope Pius IV, with the consent of the Grand Duke, that Montepulciano be decorated with the episcopal seat and the title of the city. Montepulciano thus obtained the elevation to episcopal seat and the subsequent demolition of the ancient parish church was carried out to build the imposing cathedral (1594) on a project by Ippolito Scalza and according to the principles of the Counter-Reformation, of which one of the emeritus fathers was the poliziano cardinal Roberto Bellarmino.

On the death of Cardinal Giovanni Ricci, the Grand Duke Ferdinando left the Capitanati of Montepulciano and Pietrasanta to the free government of the Grand Duchess Christina of Lorraine who remained there until her death in 1636. The Grand Duchess gave a lot of impetus to the construction of the new Cathedral, where the Bishop Antonio Cervini, in 1680 he was the first to celebrate the Pontifical and was consecrated in 1712 by Bishop Francesco Maria Arrighi, who in 1714 consecrated the Church of the Gesù.

In the eighteenth century theAcademy of the Intrigued, who, together with his literary activity, built a theater in 1793, in the large rooms of the fifteenth-century Monte di Pietà, as he had done previously in Via Collazzi and in the Palazzo Comunale.

The long Lorense season marked the beginning of a widespread economic and social recovery for Montepulciano. The reclamation of the Valdichiana favored the agricultural recolonization of the fertile valley floor; the consequent reorganization of the road system facilitated commercial contacts. With the unification of Italy, Montepulciano (which then passed from the province of Arezzo to that of Siena) became the main agricultural market in the area, while entrepreneurial activities slid towards the valley floor, attracted by the railway (present since 1884) and by the greater ease of connection with the emerging Chiusi railway junction.

How to orient yourself

The inhabited center has the characteristics of a medieval village in the shape of an "S" and is enclosed within three circles of walls, all built towards the fourteenth century.

Fractions

• Abbadia
• Living Water
• Gracciano
• Montepulciano Station
• Sant'Albino
• Valiano

How to get

By plane

The closest airports to Montepulciano are:

• Florence: "Amerigo Vespucci" Airport
• Perugia: "Sant'Egidio" Airport
• Pisa: "Galileo Galilei" Airport
• Rome: "Leonardo da Vinci" airport

By car

From the Autostrada del Sole :

• Coming from the North: exit at Valdichiana, go through the town of Bettolle and follow the signs for Torrita di Siena. Once in Torrita di Siena, at the traffic light, turn left towards Montepulciano.
• Coming from the South: exit at Chiusi-Chianciano Terme, follow the signs for Chianciano Terme. Go through the town of Chianciano Terme and continue towards Montepulciano.

The 146 road to Montepulciano is quite panoramic.

On the train

• 43.13532811.8566331 Montepulciano station. On the main line Rome-Florence-Bologna-Milan, get off at Closed-Chianciano Terme. Continue with the regional train to Siena (line Empoli-Siena-Closed) and get off at Montepulciano station.  

By bus

• 43.09639611.7874442 Bus terminal, Piazza Pietro Nenni (from the bus station, there is a pedestrian shortcut with a lift and stairs to the top of the mountain. The entrance is through a portal on Via delle Lettere at the corner of Piazzale dello Sterro, about 50 m from the bus station.). Buses connect Montepulciano with many other Tuscan cities: Siena (75 minutes, 4 per day but none on Sundays), Pienza (30 minutes, 8 per day), Montalcino (1 hour, 10 per day) e Closed (hourly). 

How to get around

The historic center, closed to private traffic, is crossed by a small orange bus, called amicably Tom Thumb.

The only way to get around the historic center is to walk along the steep paths. Road biking is also possible, although you have to be careful of cars on narrow roads, and often excessive curves and slopes.

By car

Driving inside the historic center is not allowed without fines unless you are a local with a permit. Outside the historic center, a car is recommended to drive around the countryside and the outer city.

Main car parks

• 43.0979211.7850153 Minzoni parking, Piazza Don Giovanni Minzoni (Located 900 m from Piazza Grande). Free parking, 60 spaces. 
• 43.09826311.7856344 Sant'Agnese parking, Piazza Sant'Agnese (Located 900 m from Piazza Grande). Free parking, 10 places. 

• 43.09020811.7784225 Parking Philosophers, Via dei Filosofi (Located 450 m from Piazza Grande). Free parking, 58 spaces. 
• 43.09211411.7828496 Oriolo parking, Via dell'Oriolo (Located 400 m from Piazza Grande). Free parking. 
• 43.09312711.7830857 New Homes Parking, Via delle Case Nuove (Located 450 m from Piazza Grande). Free parking, 138 spaces. 

• 43.09587511.7876598 Nenni parking, Piazza Pietro Nenni (Located 1000 m from Piazza Grande). Free parking, 100 spaces. 
• 43.09651711.7861359 Parking I Maggio, Viale I Maggio (Located 800 m from Piazza Grande). Free parking, 22 spaces. 
• 43.09811411.78702610 Parking Letters, Street of Letters (Located 1000 m from Piazza Grande). Free parking, 71 spaces. 
• 43.09858411.7865511 Moulins car park, Moulins square (Located 1000 m from Piazza Grande). Free parking, 20 spaces. 
• 43.09084711.78187412 Farine parking, Door of the Flours (Located 250 m from Piazza Grande). Free parking, 42 spaces. 
• 43.09079211.77977113 Fortezza parking, Via di San Donato (Located 240 m from Piazza Grande). Free parking, 32 spaces. 

What see

Piazza Grande

It is the main square of Montepulciano, of which it constitutes the highest point.

• 43.092511.78091 Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta (Montepulciano Cathedral), Piazza Grande. The cathedral was built between 1586 and 1680 on a project from Orvieto Ippolito Scalza; the building was built in place of the ancient parish church of Santa Maria. The only surviving structure of the ancient parish church is the massive bell tower in travertine and brick ashlars, built in the third quarter of the fifteenth century by Iacomo and Checco di Meo da Settignano. The apical part, denoted by the slender bell mullioned windows, was never completed. The salient façade is also unfinished, while the sides, finished with a brick cladding and travertine ashlars, are enlivened by Tuscan pilasters between which round arches are inserted. The vast spaces of the temple are adorned with a large number of works of art. Some come from the ancient parish church and from other Polizian churches. Among these, one of the most important is the monumental Triptych of the Assumption, painted by Taddeo di Bartolo in 1401, which dominates the high altar. Another monument of primary importance is the fifteenth-century funeral monument of Bartolomeo Aragazzi, in Carrara marble, made by Michelozzo between 1427 and 1436. At the center of the first left side chapel, which constitutes the baptistery, is the fourteenth-century baptismal font , attributed to Giovanni di Agostino or Tino di Camaino. On the back wall, the so-called altar of the Lilies, polychrome glazed terracotta by Andrea Della Robbia.  

• 43.09277911.7812872 Nobili-Tarugi Palace, Piazza Grande (In front of the Duomo of Montepulciano). The palace is not open to the public. It has been attributed to Antonio da Sangallo the Elder (although someone in more recent times prefers to refer it to Jacopo Barozzi da Vignola) who would have built it in the first decades of the sixteenth century. It was the residence first of the Nobili family and later of the Tarugi family.

Completely clad in travertine, on the ground floor it has an imposing portico, with round arches, once open to the public. On the main floor, which has windows with a curved tympanum, the cladding is punctuated by half-columns of the Ionic order resting on high pedestals. These support the balustrade of the second floor also in travertine where, however, the score is obtained with Doric half-pillars. On the corner in correspondence with the lower loggia there was, also on the second floor, a loggia now buffered.  

• 43.0928511.780643 Town Hall (on the western side of the Piazza Grande). The works began at the end of the 14th century and lasted until 1440 with the construction of the façade, in Florentine style, attributed to Michelozzo, at the center of which stands the civic tower. The ground floor of the façade is covered in ashlar, while the upper levels are in travertine; the crowning consists of a protruding gallery with Guelph battlements. Inside there is a courtyard with two superimposed loggias.  

• 43.09259111.7814254 Contucci Palace (on the eastern side of the Piazza Grande). The palace was built starting from 1519 on a project by Antonio da Sangallo the Elder, exploiting the remains of the first city walls. Originally owned by the Del Monte family, in 1642 it became the property of the Contucci family.

The façade is characterized by a severe stone face with smooth ashlars on the ground floor, while the five windows on the first floor are framed in aedicules with a triangular tympanum supported by Ionic semi-columns; the top floor has a brick band with five windows decorated with flattened volutes. Inside the main floor hall stands out, with frescoed walls with illusionistic perspective scenes attributed to Andrea Pozzo; the paintings, made between 1701 and 1702, reproduce arcades, gardens and terraces, framed between twisted columns.  

• 43.0930111.781025 Captain's Palace.  
• 43.09290511.7810646 Well of the Grifi and the Lions (In front of the Palazzo del Capitano).  

Religious buildings

• 43.09555911.7829477 Church of Santa Lucia, Piazza di Santa Lucia. The project of the church, built in 1653, is attributed to Flaminio del Turco. The whimsical travertine façade, divided into two tripartite registers, combines structural styles and late Mannerist ornamentations with a compositional exuberance dear to the Roman Baroque. The portal is particularly spectacular, framed by columns with a festooned Ionic capital, whose jambs are decorated with volute ears from which large fruit pendants descend. In the interior with a single nave there are a sixteenth-century wooden Crucifix by Giovan Battista Alessi, the Saints Girolamo, Margherita, Lorenzo, Agnese by Gaetano Perpignani and the Madonna Enthroned with the Child by Luca Signorelli. Under the church there are traces of a building dating back to the 12th century.  

• 43.09835811.7855658 Church of Sant'Agnese, Via Elio Bernabei. The facade retains the fourteenth-century portal while the plaster and other ornamental parts were made between 1916 and 1926. The rose window, with the figure of Saint Agnes holding a lamb, a cross and a lily, was made in 1539 by Maestro Bano by Michelangelo from Cortona. The mosaic lunette dates back to 1939. The brick bell tower dates back to 1764, after a lightning had destroyed the one of 1704, which in turn replaced that of 1455. The interior has a single nave (38.20 long. Wide. 11.15 and 16 meters high) covered with barrel and enlivened by semi-pillars that delimit the arches above the side altars and support a double decorative cornice, which continues into the semicircular apse.  

• 43.08997611.7793099 Church of Santa Maria dei Servi, Via del Poliziano. It has a gabled façade, with regular travertine ashlars arranged "in a row" and enriched by a splayed portal, with a pointed arch surmounted by a spire. The sloping roof is decorated with a row of trilobate hanging arches, resting on corbels. The brick bell tower, with slender single lancet windows flanked by pilasters, dates back to the eighteenth century. The interior, with a single nave, was renovated between the end of the seventeenth century and the beginning of the eighteenth century: the works began in 1701, in 1702 the main altar was rededicated and ended in 1712. Andrea Pozzo carried out the design of the interior of the building and the stucco decorations, but was unable to follow the construction site.

There are preserved a fresco with the Madonna della Santoreggia, from the Sienese school of the fourteenth century, a Madonna and Child attributed to the first period of activity of Ugolino di Nerio, a follower of Duccio di Buoninsegna (1310-1315) and a fourteenth-century frescoed Crucifix.  

• 43.10808711.78643410 Church of Santa Maria delle Grazie, Provincial Road 17. The façade of the church is preceded by a portico with three arches executed on a project, like the whole front, by Ippolito Scalza. The interior, with a single hall, features a rich eighteenth-century golden stucco decoration. To remember a glazed terracotta attributed to Andrea and Giovanni della Robbia with the Eternal Father, saints and angels, which contains a fresco of the second half of the fourteenth century and has two statues on the sides, with the Annunziata and the Archangel Gabriel, in glazed terracotta made by Della Robbia. On the third altar on the left there is a canvas with Sant'Elena, painted in 1632 by Bartolomeo Barbiani.  

• 43.08805611.77472211 Church of San Biagio (Temple of San Biagio), Via di San Biagio (just outside the historic center of the city), ☎ 39 0577 286300, @[email protected]. € 3.50 with audio guide (Aug 2020). Fri-Mon: 10: 00-13: 00 and 14: 00-18: 00. Sun 12: 00-13: 00 and 14: 00-19: 00. The building, summa of the Renaissance studies on the centralized Greek cross plan applied to Catholic buildings of worship, was built by Antonio da Sangallo the Elder, which had as its immediate model the basilica of Santa Maria delle Carceri in Prato, designed a generation earlier in Prato by his brother Giuliano da Sangallo. The construction of the temple lasted until 1545. The main facade, whose compositional scheme is repeated, with some ornamental variations, on the other two sides, which constitute the terminal walls of the transept, is divided into two registers by a marked entablature from the frieze with triglyphs and metopes that runs along the entire perimeter of the temple: in the lower one is the portal on which the year of foundation of the temple is engraved; in the upper one, with a window in the center, the surface is enlivened by five rectangular mirrors. On the second register there is the large triangular pediment in the center of which there is a circular oculus.  

• 43.0945611.7809812 Convent of San Francesco, Piazza di S. Francesco, 2. Of thirteenth-century origin, it was enlarged in the seventeenth century by the Franciscans. The entrance to the original church which included the current transept is still identifiable. The external wall is brick with inserts of travertine ashlars and tufaceous stone. The apse has a large buffered Gothic arch in the center. On the left side stands the bell tower; on the right there are the Gothic portal, the main entrance and the remains of a pulpit.

The interior is a Latin cross with a single nave. The apse is flanked by two chapels decorated with stuccoes and frescoes from the second half of the 1500s. In a chapel there is a fresco with the Madonna and Child and saints of the Sienese school of the fourteenth century. Currently the church is not used for worship.  

• 43.0928211.78261613 Oratory of San Giovanni Battista in Poggiolo. The building was erected at the end of the 13th century by the Silvestrini monks. The church carried out its function until the middle of the seventeenth century, after which it passed to the Episcopal Seminary. In recent times the building has been divided into two floors. The fifteenth-century entrance portal in travertine, coming from the church of Santa Maria della Cavina, is composed of two Ionic pilasters supporting an architrave surmounted by a tympanum. To its right is a fourteenth-century gravestone depicting a monk. Inside, frescoes with Episodes from the life of San Silvestro dated 1412 returned to light in 1988. In the same period of time the other fresco with the Crucifixion, the Madonna and St. John was probably painted.  

• 43.09623111.78554314 Convent of San Bernardo. Erected in the second half of the sixteenth century, it was replaced by a new church designed in the early eighteenth century by Andrea Pozzo. The plaster façade is accompanied by a late sixteenth-century portal in travertine with molded cornices and a triangular tympanum. The interior, with an elliptical central plan, is decorated with Baroque stuccoes. The numerous columns with a composite capital accentuate the dynamism expressed by the plant. The main altar is enriched by two semi-columns painted in fake pink marble; in the center there is a terracotta with the Adoration of the Virgin from the workshop of Andrea della Robbia (1480-1490). In the center of the apsidal basin, a high relief with the Eternal Father. On the left altar an eighteenth-century wooden crucifix is ​​inserted in a glass case.  

• 43.09566211.78383715 Church of Sant'Agostino, Via di Gracciano nel Corso. Founded in 1285, it was completely renovated in the fifteenth century, with the intervention of Michelozzo di Bartolomeo for the construction of the lower part of the facade, marked by fluted pilasters, topped by niches that frame the portal, in whose lunette is a terracotta relief with the Madonna and Saints John the Baptist and Augustine. The upper part of the facade was built later. The restorations carried out in 1784-1791 modified the original layout, of which the only nave remains. Inside, a "Resurrection of Lazarus" by Alessandro Allori, a "San Nicola da Tolentino" by Giovanni di Paolo, a polychrome wooden "Crucifix" by Antonio da Sangallo, a "Crucifixion" by Lorenzo di Credi.  

• 43.09281911.78261716 Church of the Gesù. The church was begun in 1691 by Giovan Battista Origoni (architect of Milanese origin) in Baroque forms and was soon renovated to a design by Andrea Pozzo, to be finally completed around 1712 by Sebastiano Cipriani, from Siena. With a central plan, it has three altars inside, of which the main one is dedicated to the Most Holy Name of Jesus, the one on the right to the Madonna delle Tre Ave and the one on the left to the Sacred Heart. A pupil of the Pozzo, Antonio Colli, painted, inside, the fake architecture of the side altars and the frescoes of the small dome, while the stuccos that adorn the walls are the work of the Sienese Francesco Notari. Also noteworthy are four stucco statues by the Sienese Bartolomeo Mazzuoli. In 1901 the painter Sallustio Tarugi decorated the apse with paintings.  

Palaces

• 43.09619711.78500817 Avignonesi Palace, Via di Gracciano nel Corso, 91.  
• 43.09583911.78461418 Bucelli Palace, Via di Gracciano nel Corso, 73. With the base studded with Etruscan and Latin inscriptions.  
• 43.09448111.78231119 Cervini Palace, Via di Voltaia Nel Corso, 17. Based on a project by Antonio da Sangallo the Elder.  
• 43.09595811.78479420 Palazzo Cocconi Del Pecora.  
• 43.0926411.782321 Salimbeni Palace.  
• 43.0950411.783222 Venturi Palace.  
• 43.09094711.78129423 House of the poet Angelo Poliziano, via del Poliziano n. 1.  
• 43.094911.78251924 Logge del Grano.  
• 43.09413911.78108925 Benincasa Palace.  
• 43.09377811.78233326 Bracci Palace.  
• 43.09063911.78127827 Colombi Palace, Via del Poliziano, 11. The building houses a hotel.  
• 43.0930911.782328 Former Magnanet college building, Via di Voltaia in the Corso.  
• 43.09122211.78144429 Tombesi Trecci Palace, Via dell'Opio Nel Corso, 53. The building is a historic hotel.  

Fortifications

• 43.09083311.77972230 Medici Fortress (Fortress of Montepulciano), Via di S. Donato. It was originally a military building erected in 1261. The fortress was destroyed and rebuilt several times due to the disputes over Montepulciano by the Sienese and Florentines. The last reconstruction is attributed to the architect Antonio da Sangallo the Elder, hence the nickname "Medici". Finally, it underwent profound renovations in 1885 by the Sienese engineer Augusto Corbi. After the military purpose it hosted, first a bacological establishment, then the classical high school "Agnolo Poliziano". Currently some of its premises are used as exhibition spaces, used for the annual handicraft exhibition. Others host the Kennesaw State University of Georgia (USA), which uses them for didactic-training purposes.  
• 43.09103811.77938131 Porta San Donato, Via di S. Donato.  
• 43.0908811.78178432 Door of the Flours, Via delle Farine.  
• 43.09686211.78519233 It leads to the Prato, Via Gracciano in the course.  

Other

• 43.09320311.78088134 Piero Calamandrei historical archive municipal library (Sisti Palace), Via Ricci 6, ☎ 39 0578716876, @[email protected]. The municipal library of Montepulciano is located in the Palazzo Sisti in via Ricci and boasts an ancient collection of about 12,000 volumes and a modern one of over 48,000.

There are also:

• the judicial fund
• the police collection with 40 volumes concerning Angelo Poliziano
• the personal archive of Piero Calamandrei
• the archive of Lidio Bozzini
• the archive of Christian Democracy of Montepulciano.  

• 43.09348111.78099835 Civic Museum of Montepulciano (Civic Museum Crociani Art Gallery, Palazzo Neri Orselli), Via Ricci 10, ☎ 39 0578717300, fax: 39 0578717300, @[email protected]. The civic museum is located in Palazzo Neri Orselli and is divided into five sections:

• Archaeological section
• Police section
• Robbian terracotta
• Picture gallery
• Studiolo.  

• 43.0955711.7839136 Pulcinella Tower, Via di Gracciano nel Corso (Next to the church of Sant'Agostino). This clock tower has the curious presence of a Pulcinella-shaped automaton from the 1600s. It is not known what is the reason why a purely Neapolitan character was placed on top of the tower to mark the hours, it is assumed the presence in the city of a canon of Neapolitan origins but there is no certainty. However, due to its particularity it is one of the most photographed subjects in the city.  

Events and parties

• 43.09196611.78101214 International Art Shipyard, Via Fiorenzuola Vecchia 5, ☎ 39 0578757089, @[email protected]. Summer. The Cantiere Internazionale d'Arte is an annual Italian summer school and music festival for young singers, actors, musicians, conductors and composers.  
• 43.09543411.78565315 Bruscello Poliziano, Via delle Lettere 4, ☎ 39 0578758529, @[email protected]. Summer. The Bruscello is a form of popular and peasant theater, typically Tuscan, recited and sung by non-professional actors and is a sometimes epic-dramatic representation, sometimes farcical of episodes from everyday life, created by popular imaginations or by facts that really happened; history or literature.  
• 43.092611.78230716 Bravio delle Botti, Via dell’Opio in Course 1, @[email protected]. The last Sunday of August. The Bravio delle Botti (its origins in the fourteenth century) is the challenge that takes place every year in Montepulciano between the 8 Contradas of Montepulciano (Cagnano, Collazzi, Gracciano, Le Coste, Poggiolo, San Donato, Talosa, Voltaia), in honor of the patron saint, St. John the Beheaded.  
• 43.09079911.77980217 Preview of the Vino Nobile di Montepulciano, Via San Donato 14 - Medicean Fortress of Montepulciano, ☎ 39 0578757812, @[email protected]. Mid-February. You can taste the products of over 40 wineries of the Vino Nobile di Montepulciano consortium. At the same time, the Le Belle Vetrine competition is held, reserved for traders, for the most beautiful and original themed showcase. 

What to do

• Path of the Reclamation - The Bonifica path is a 62 km cycle path in dirt. It develops on the ancient road for the maintenance of the Canale maestro della Chiana, which runs along its banks, between the cities of Arezzo is Closed.
• 43.07358811.8022661 Terme di Montepulciano, Provincial Road 146 "of Chianciano", ☎ 39 05787911. The spa offers a wide range of treatments for respiratory, rheumatic and skin diseases. 
• 43.10368911.7870552 C & c riding school, Via Duccio Galimberti 26, ☎ 39 057860155, fax: 39 0578758505. Riding school. 

Shopping

Here the Noble wine of Montepulciano, one of the oldest wines in Italy, defined by the poet Francesco Redi, "of every wine he is the King!". Montepulciano is part ofNational Association City of wine.

In its territory an excellent olive oil is also produced; Montepulciano is part ofNational Association City of oil.

Shops

• 43.09509311.7830791 Door of the Cavina, Via di Gracciano in Corso 1/3, ☎ 39 0578758210, @[email protected]. Gift items, home fragrances, craftsmanship of personalized house numbers. 
• 43.09509311.7830682 The snail, Via di Gracciano in Corso 4, ☎ 39 0578757035. Children's clothing. 
• 43.09510111.7830573 Caloni, Via di Gracciano in Corso 5, ☎ 39 0578757388. Niche perfumery. 
• 43.09509211.7830784 Stampisse, Via di Gracciano in Corso 7, ☎ 39 0578758210, @[email protected]. Cutlery and household items. 
• 43.09509311.7830795 The Pecorella, Via di Gracciano in Corso 31, ☎ 39 0578717018. Cheese and dairy products, own production. 
• 43.09561411.783796 The Fable of Orpheus, Via di Gracciano in Corso 51, ☎ 39 0578758450. Artistic ceramics. 
• 43.09564811.7837197 Bernardini jewelry, Via di Gracciano in Corso 57, ☎ 39 0578757084. Jewelery and watchmaking. 
• 43.09559911.7837798 Corinne, Via di Gracciano in Corso 58, ☎ 39 0578716191. Clothing, bags and costume jewelery. 
• 43.0955911.7837829 The Underground City, Via di Gracciano in Corso 80/82, ☎ 39 0578716764, fax: 39 0578716764, @[email protected]. 08:00-22:00. Historic cellar. 
• 43.09553611.78386710 Biagianti heirs, Michelozzo Square 5, ☎ 39 0578757261, fax: 39 0578757261, @[email protected]. Handcrafted fabrics, from Tuscany and Umbria, for the home. 
• 43.09468611.78242211 Mirage, Via di Voltaia in Corso 9, ☎ 39 0578716463, fax: 39 0578716463, @[email protected]. Clothing and gift items. 
• 43.09427111.78201912 Damned Tuscans, Via di Voltaia in Corso 40, ☎ 39 0578717461, @[email protected].. Mon-Sun 9: 00-18: 00. Leather goods. 
• 43.09507911.78241713 Butterfly, Via del Poggiolo 49, ☎ 39 3395757384, @[email protected]. Clothing and accessories. 
• 43.09244811.78219814 Uscio and Bottega, Via dell'Opio in Corso 7, ☎ 39 0578758372. Footwear. 
• 43.09163711.7815915 Copper Workshop (Renowned Rameria Mazzetti), Via dell'Opio in Corso 64, ☎ 39 0578758753, fax: 39 0578717038, @[email protected]. Mon-Sun 10 am-7pm. Gift items since 1857. 
• 43.09598811.78609216 Trust, Via delle Lettere 46, ☎ 39 0578757650, fax: 39 0578757614, @[email protected]. Mon-Sat 9: 00-13: 00, 16: 00-20: 00 Sun closed. IT and electronics. 
• 43.0926911.7822417 Enrico Crociani men's clothing, Via Dell'Opio in Corso 6, ☎ 39 0578 758823, @[email protected]. Mon-Sun 10: 30/13: 00 - 15: 00/19: 30. Handcrafted made in Italy men's clothing. 

Financial services

• 43.09336811.78176518 Cooperative Credit Bank of Montepulciano, Via di Voltaia in Corso 2/4, ☎ 39 05787111. ATM. 
• 43.09643311.78531519 National Bank of Labor, Piazza Savonarola 13, ☎ 39 0578756083. ATM. 
• 43.09450411.78329620 Unicredit, Viale Primo Maggio 12, ☎ 39 0578071010. ATM. 
• 43.09444211.78220321 Bancaetruria, Via di Voltaia in Corso 21, ☎ 39 0578757179. ATM. 
• 43.09559911.78376822 Monte dei Paschi di Siena Bank, Via di Gracciano in Corso 61, ☎ 39 0578717299. ATM. 
• 43.09524911.78261723 Post Office, Via delle Erbe 12, ☎ 39 0578756531, fax: 39 0578756534. ATM. 

Travel agencies

• 43.09097111.78123224 Tuscan lands, Via del Poliziano 10, ☎ 39 055758582, fax: 39 0578757098, @[email protected]. Travel agency. 
• 43.09618511.78523525 Stilviaggi, Piazza Savonarola 19, ☎ 39 0578757450, fax: 39 0578758402, @[email protected]. Travel agency. 

How to have fun

Shows

• 43.09189511.7810431 Poliziano Theater, Via del Teatro 4, ☎ 39 0578757089, @[email protected]. Ancient opera house.  
• 43.09343111.7807912 European Academy of Palazzo Ricci (Ricci Palace), Via Ricci 9, ☎ 39 0578756022, @[email protected]. The European Academy of Palazzo Ricci (Europäische Akademie für Musik und Darstellende Kunst) is a German cultural project in Italy completely dedicated to music  
• 43.11585311.8613863 Theater of the Società dei Concordi, Via Fratelli Braschi - Acquaviva.  

Where to eat

Moderate prices

• 43.09910611.7874621 Sports Bar, Via Mario Mencattelli, 7, ☎ 39 0578 757415. Well stocked bar for breakfasts and sandwiches. Very popular during the day by the elderly and passing workers. 

Average prices

• 43.09137111.7812582 Osteria Acquacheta, Via del Teatro 22, ☎ 39 0578717086, @[email protected]. Wed-Mon 12: 30-15: 30, 19: 30-22: 30. Tue closed. A restaurant where you can bring your favorite wine from home. 
• 43.09503211.7825833 The Vignola lodges, Via dell'Erbe 6, ☎ 39 0578717290, @[email protected]. Wed-Mon 12: 30-14: 30, 19: 30-22: 30. Tue closed. A restaurant that reinterprets Tuscan dishes. 
• 43.09559111.7837794 La Bottega del Nobile, Via di Gracciano in Corso 95, ☎ 39 0578757016, @[email protected]. Restaurant and wine shop. 
• 43.09171611.7802075 The Corte Dell 'Ulivo, Via di S. Donato, 11. Excellent Tuscan cuisine, in summer there is an internal courtyard. 

Where stay

Average prices

• 43.09033811.7804311 Politian Apartments, Via del Poliziano 34, ☎ 39 366 6428849, @[email protected]. Six independent apartments obtained from an ancient building in the historic center of Montepulciano. 
• 43.132711.910162 Farmhouse Casa di Bacchus, Via della Fornace Valiano 16, ☎ 39 3388054069, @[email protected]. From the recovery of an ancient farm, it stands on a hill surrounded by vineyards, in the Tuscan countryside. 
• 43.09331311.7816423 La Terrazza Hotel, Via del Piè al Sasso 16, ☎ 39 0578757440, fax: 39 0578757440, @[email protected]. Expertly restored, it is located in the historic center. 
• 43.09214111.780324 Duomo hotel, Via San Donato 14, ☎ 39 0578757473, fax: 39 0578757473, @[email protected]. Located in the historic center of Montepulciano, a few steps from Piazza Grande, it is inside an ancient Renaissance palace. 
• 43.09403711.7809575 Bellavista rooms, Via Ricci 25, ☎ 39 3478232314, fax: 39 0578716341, @[email protected]. 50 meters from Piazza Grande, they are located in an ancient palace. 
• 43.0926111.7813616 Meublé Il Riccio, Via Talosa 21, ☎ 39 0578757713, fax: 39 0578757151, @[email protected]. Located in the oldest street of Montepulciano, a few steps from Piazza Grande, it offers its guests a fantastic view over the Val di Chiana and the lakes of Montepulciano, Chiusi and Trasimeno. 
• 43.09227411.7817117 Meublé Evoè, Via di Cagnano 13, ☎ 39 0578758757. Located in the historic center of Montepulciano, it is one hundred meters from Piazza Grande, the monumental heart of the city. 
• 43.09437111.7810798 The Inn of San Francesco, Piazza di San Francesco 5, ☎ 39 0578758725, fax: 39 0578758725, @[email protected]. Located in a fourteenth-century building in the heart of the historic center of Montepulciano, a breathtaking view of the Val D'Orcia and the Valdichiana. 
• 43.09618511.7852679 Il Marzocco hotel, Piazza Savonarola 18, ☎ 39 0578757262, fax: 39 0578757530, @[email protected]. Located in the historic center, it is the oldest hotel in Montepulciano. 
• 43.080611.787210 Fonte Martino Guest House & Estate, Via di Valardegna, 8, ☎ 39 3291567491, @[email protected]. €289. Check in: 15:00, check-out: 11:00. A bed and breakfast in Montepulciano with a panoramic view over the city and the Valdichiana. Each suite includes a private terrace. A seasonal homemade breakfast is included each morning. 

Safety

• 43.11851211.82545618 United hospitals of the Valdichiana (Nottola Hospital), Via Provinciale 5, Nottola, ☎ 39 0578713111. In the municipality of Montepulciano there is a modern hospital complex called United hospitals of the Valdichiana.  
• 43.09818211.78526519 Sorbini Pharmacy, Via Calamandrei 3, ☎ 39 0578757352. Pharmacy. 
• 43.09403211.78207320 Franceschi Pharmacy, Via di Voltaia in Corso 47, ☎ 39 0578757324. Pharmacy. 

How to keep in touch

Internet

• 43.09510911.78305721 Internet Point of Baroli Anna Rosa & C. Sas, Via di Gracciano in Corso 26, ☎ 39 0578717253. 

Around

• 43.12869711.90317222 The Callone di Valiano (along the Path of the Reclamation). Dam on the Canale Maestro della Chiana. Built in 1723 to regulate both the level of the waters of the lakes of Montepulciano and Chiusi, and the discharge of the same in the Canale Maestro also for the purpose of ensuring their navigability.  
• Pienza
• San Quirico d'Orcia
• Castiglione d'Orcia
• Vignoni bathroom
• Closed
• Cortona
• Assisi
• Siena

Itineraries

• Trasimeno lake
• Val d'Orcia
• Crete Senesi
• Via Francigena
• Mount Amiata

Useful information

• 43.0965611.7853623 Tourist information, Don Minzoni square, ☎ 39 0578 757 341. Mon-Sat 09: 30-13: 00 and 15: 00-19: 00, Sun 09: 00-13: 00. 

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