Monteriggioni - is a beautifully preserved medieval fortified village, built on a hillock.

The circle of walls, dating from the 13C and the largest of its kind in Tuscany to have survived practically intact, has fourteen towers.

Monteriggioni is mentioned by Dante: Divine Comedy. Hell, xxxi. 41-44 '...come in su la cerchia londa Monteriggioni di torri si corona'

A main street crosses the village, joining the two gates. A few houses and a pretty Romanesque church face onto the piazza, and other houses surround a small public garden. Inside the walls are other private gardens.

Siena transformed Monteriggioni in the imposing Fortress to protection of the boundary north in the wars against the enemy Florence. Inside Monteriggioni there were in XIV century beyond 150 families with about 600 inhabitant.

The wall was arised since 1213 (see the headstone on the Romea Gate) until 1219 and then they strengthen in varied years (1260, 1279) until the 1545.

The wall up of Monteriggioni are long beyond 500 meters, tall twenty meters and surrounded from 14 towers to square base.