2Monteriggioni

Set on a natural hillock and protected by city walls, it has its own medieval festival every summer where you can enter into the spirit of the Tuscan middle ages.

In the small but fun “Armoury Museum” you can even dress up in full battle armour. Monteriggioni was a pawn in the battle between Florence and Siena for years, and has such a fabled past it was even mentioned by Dante in the “Divine Comedy”, where he compares its walls to “towering dreadful giants”.

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