Culture of Montalcino Tuscany Italy - Travel guide & Information

This description page of Montalcino, in the Italian region of Tuscany, will guide you in planning your trip to Italy and help you find useful travel information about the culture of this Italian city.

The town, founded in the first decades of the 10th century by refugees from the town of Roselle has kept its urban structure almost since the time of its greatest expansion and brilliance, in the Middle Ages.

Its stormy history together with defensive requirements have combined to give Montalcino its picturesque setting. From the avenues that skirt the walls, we look out on to views that could be paintings by the masters of the Sienese three hundred (14th century). Empty spaces, squares, gardens and rows of olive-trees and vines relate in a kind of counterpoint with tightly-knit streets and major buildings.

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