Montepulciano, Siena surroundings

Montepulciano repeats the scenography of all the others town of Siena surroundings: you enter from the principal door of the city and begin a time voyage between Middle age and Renaissance which takes end at the top of the town in Piazza Grande. The place is the heart of Montepulciano where tourists and poliziani (this is the name of Montepulciano’s dwellers) meet each others. The four sides of the square present each one a beautiful palace: the Town hall, which is dated around 1300 and reminds in its forms the Palazzo della Signoria in Florence; the Contucci Palace and the Nobili-Tarugi that is faced with travertine. The nearby Palace is named Palazzo del Capitano del Popolo and in front of the latter there’s the well dei Grifi e dei Leoni with its beautiful Renaissance design. In the Cathedral you could admire the tryptic which represent the Assumption painted by Taddeo di Bartolo and the Virgin with the Baby painted by Sano di Pietro. In the way that crosses the square there are many streets with nobility palaces and full of workshops that sells typical wines as the noble of Montepulciano and local gastronomical products.