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arms. There is a small
collection of Siena School
paintings and some fine
examples of Etruscan pottery.
The chapel next to the main
room has a portico decorated
with frescoes by Simone Ferri
in 1581.
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Santa Maria in Canonica
Via del Castello.
sporadically.
The Romanesque church has
a simple belltower and a stone
façade decorated with brick-
work. The interior was altered
in the 17th century, and now
contains a tabernacle by Pier
Francesco Fiorentino, showing
scenes from the lives of the
Madonna and Child.
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Palazzo Campana, the gateway to Colle Alta
San Gimignano 1
See pp212-15
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Museo d'Arte Sacra
Via del Castello 31. Tel 0577
92 38 88.
see Museo Civico.
Part of the Museo Civico, this
museum features 14th-century
frescoes of hunting scenes by
Bartolo di Fredi, Sienese
paintings and a collection of
Etruscan pottery.
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Colle di Val d'Elsa 2
Road map C3.
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Porta Nova
Via Gracco del Secco.
daily.
This large Renaissance fortress
was designed by Giuliano da
Sangallo in the 15th century to
guard against attack from the
Volterra road. Two heavily
fortified cylindrical towers are
on the outside of the building.
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17,200.
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Via Campana 43 (0577 92 27
91).
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Fri.
Colle di val d'Elsa has a lower
and an upper town. Colle
Alta, the upper town, is of
great medieval architectural
interest. Arnolfo di Cambio,
who built the Palazzo Vecchio
in Florence (see pp78-9) ,
was born here in 1232. In the
modern lower town shops
sell locally made crystal glass.
Monteriggioni 3
Road map D3.
Piazza Roma 23 (0577 30 48 10).
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720.
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Sgraffito cherub, Museo Civico
Monteriggioni is a gem of
a medieval hilltop town.
It was built in 1203 and ten
years later became a garrison
town. It is totally 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 used the town as a
simile for the abyss at the
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Palazzo Campana
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Museo Civico
Via del Castello 31. Tel 0577 92 38
88.
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to the public.
This Mannerist palazzo was
built on a viaduct in 1539
by Baccio d'Agnolo, forming
a gateway to Colle Alta.
Apr-Oct: 10am-noon, 4-7pm
Tue-Sun; Nov-Mar: 10:30am-
12:30pm, 3:30-5:30pm Tue-Sun.
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The museum is housed in
the ancient Palazzo dei Priori,
whose façade is decorated
with sgraffito work scratched
in the plaster, incorporating
cherubs and Medici coats of
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Duomo
Piazza del Duomo.
4-5pm
Mon-Fri, Sun morning (for Mass
only).
The Duomo has a marble
Renaissance pulpit carved
with bas-reliefs of the
Madonna (1465), attributed
to Giuliano da Maiano. The
façade was rebuilt in 1603.
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Museo Archeologico
Palazzo Pretorio, Piazza del Duomo.
Tel 0577 92 04 90.
Oct-Apr:
3:30-5:30pm Tue-Fri, 10am-noon,
3-6pm Sat & Sun; May-Sep: 10am-
noon, 5-7pm Tue-Sun (from 4pm
Sat & Sun).
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The museum houses many
Etruscan funerary urns. The
building was once a jail: Com-
munist slogans written on the
walls survive from the 1920s.
Craft shop in the main piazza of Monteriggioni
 
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