Monteriggioni Monteriggioni is a gem of a midieval hilltop town.  It was built in 1203 and ten years later became a garrison town.  It is completely encircled by high walls with 14 heavily fortified towers built to guard the northern borders of Siena's territory against invasion by Florentine armies.  Dante was sufficiently impressed to use Montereggioni as a simile for the deepest abyss at the heart of his Inferno, which compares the town's "ring shaped citadel... crowned with towers" with giants standing in a moat.

The walls of Montereggioni as your approach the town

Below- two views of the large piazza

Below Montriggioni 's charming Romanesque church and to the right is a painting inside this church.

Two wonderful views of the Tuscan countryside through the arches of the wall of Monteriggioni

Click on the picture of Randy hanging out in Montereggioni  (to the left) to move on to Siena.