Versione Italiana Monteriggioni - Distance: 44.4 km – about 44 min
Monteriggioni is a castle situated on a hillock. It was erected in 1203 by the Sieneses as a post against the Florentines. The outer walls have been built during the 13th century and they are 570 metres long with fourteen quadrilateral towers. The parish church is on Roman-Gothic style.
Work has been done to Monteriggioni's walls or buildings since they were first erected. So, Monteriggioni's walls and the buildings that comprise the town within are the best preserved example of their kind in all of Italy, so it is not surprising that it attracts busses full of tourists, but also architects, and medieval historians and archaeologists.
The town served as a defensive fortification that played a vital role in the on-going conflicts between Siena and Florence during the Middle Ages when Florence was driving hard to increase its territory.
