Monteriggioni, Siena surroundings

The best way to have a prefect glance of Monteriggioni is to have a walk on its old medieval walls. The walls are perfectly visible while arriving in the town and they are in a perfect state of preservation. Nothing has changed from to the past to nowadays, the sensation is the same that maybe proved Dante when he saw for the first time Monteriggione. He remained so impressed that he names this walls in the “Comedy” in the Canto XXXI of the Hell, when he wrote: “As with circling round/Of turrets, Montereggion crowns his walls;” He use the majesty of this town to describe the huge giants jammed into the chasm of Malebolge. They are still intact the 14 towers built to protect the city. Monteriggione is on a territory which was for centuries contested between Florence and Siena. Today this town only welcomes tourists, artists and writers which are attracted by the calm atmosphere that can be breathe in Piazza Roma (the principal place of the village) where the church of the assumption gave onto and where you can find a lot of typical restaurants.