Monteriggioni

Today the image of the castle, for the travellers that cross the Florence - Siena, is very suggestive, considering that it appears on the summit of its hill, bold and dominant as sentinel to defense of the ancient Republic Senese. Even more imposing and stately owed appear to Giving Alighieri that saw him/it in full battle during one of his/her trips.

Monteriggioni for his/her beauty and for his/her position has a natural tourist vocation, every year is visited by 70.000 tourists, and if we can affirm that the first illustrious tourist has been the same Giving Alighieri, among those pasts recently be able to remember Tony Blair and Ted Kennedy.

Monteriggioni is the typical example of Strengthened Suburb, a small country of only 42 inhabitants that you/he/she has never been able to have a great expansion really because of the narrow perimeter of the boundaries, the greatest diameter in the castle is of 172 meters. To the inside there are the private residences, two cafes, a shop of grocerieses, two restaurants, a shop of souvenir, an erboristeria, a hotel and a resale of typical products.

Today The towers raise him above the boundaries for alone 6,5 meters and they are only 11 visible of it, the others four, reduced to level of the boundaries, they are not more visible.

After having crossed the principal door of the castle and crossed possession the road for a brief line, it opens to the eye of the tourist a great plaza: Rome places; it deals with the principal plaza of the Castle. The plaza, as after all the whole castle, in past it was "to dig" that is deprived of flooring, it was paved in the years 60 with a said local material "Stone of Tower" coming from the caves of Rosia.