Monteriggioni (Tuscany), Italy【Walking Tour】With Captions - 4K

A walking tour in the little famous town of 𝗠𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗴𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗶, in the province of 𝗦𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗮, 𝗧𝘂𝘀𝗰𝗮𝗻𝘆.
Shot in July 2020, in an incredibly windy day!

Monteriggioni has been considered one of the most beautiful little towns in Italy, and host of movie sets and even reproduced in a famous videogame title (Assassin's Creed II e Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood)

For further info and its history, read on!

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0:00 - Monteriggioni walking tour begins / outside the walls. VERY windy day, camera had some troubles ))
1:04 - Porta Franca (Franca Gate)
2:58 - Piazza Roma (main square)
13:56 - St.Mary Church (small tour inside)
15:00 - Piazza Roma
15:38 - Via Gramsci and the little alleys around
17:30 - Porta Fiorentina (Florence Gate)
18:30 - Walking around the walls of Monteriggioni / Views on the tuscan countryside
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**𝗕𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗳 𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆**
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗶𝗻𝘀
The Monteriggioni Castle was built by the Sienese, by order of the Podestà Guelfo da Porcari, in a period between 1214 and 1219. The land was the site of an ancient Lombard farm (the denomination of Montis Regis probably indicated a royal estate or that enjoyed tax exemptions from the crown).
The construction of the castle by the Republic of Siena had mainly a defensive purpose.
After the construction of the castle the Florentines and Sienese fought for its possession in 1244.
But already in 1234 the Florentines put the Sienese lands to fire and sword and Pope Gregory IX worked for peace in order to prevent the Emperor Frederick II from intervening.
In 1269, after the battle of Colle (mentioned by Dante in Canto XIII of Purgatory), the defeated Sienese took refuge in Monteriggioni, besieged but in vain by the Florentines.
In 1380, according to what can be read in the statutes of the municipality and men of Monteriggioni, the inhabitants of Monteriggioni were considered "citizens of Siena".

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗻 𝗮𝗴𝗲
In 1526 the Florentines besieged Monteriggioni. The Castle of Monteriggioni, however, resisted and, on 25 July of that same year, in the battle of Camollia, the Sienese defeated the papal army, allied with the Florentines.
On April 27, 1554 Monteriggioni was betrayed, without any fight, by Captain Bernardino Zeti, a Florentine exile, to the Marquis of Marignano who in 1555 definitively defeated the Republic of Siena. This episode is considered by historians as the event that marks the end of the communal era in Italy.
Cosimo I dei Medici imposed his lordship on the territory and the inhabitants of Monteriggioni were brought slaves to Florence.
Monteriggioni was then ceded by the Medici to the Golia di Siena family, who in turn ceded it to the Batta. It was then included in the duchy of Gian Galeazzo Visconti, then reaching the Fabbroni, the Daddi and in 1704 the Accarigi, who passed the annuity to the Griccioli family, which still maintains possessions in the castle and in the surrounding countryside.
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