Montalcino

Coming from the valley the imposing fourteenth-century fortress leaves immediately understand the urban di Montalcino, a medieval town of military facility, crossed by narrow and steep vie.

Da up here the views are true masterpieces like those stored at ‘interior of the Diocesan Museum of Sacred Art, which houses one of the richest collections of paintings and wooden sculptures of the Sienese school. Among the many churches stand out for sure 300sca St. Augustine, the neoclassical cathedral, the Sanctuary of the Madonna del Soccorso and Sant’Egidio, the church “de ‘Siena’. The Town Hall (end XIIIcc), a slender but sturdy structure is flanked by a high bell tower nearly a lookout tower topped by “Campanone” still beating the life of the whole country.