2 secrets of MONTERIGGIONI, Tuscany | ITALIAN CITIES TOUR GUIDES, LEGENDS AND HIDDEN GEMS
Monteriggioni is a really beautiful medieval city in the heart of the tuscan countryside, close to Siena. It became quite famous thanks to Assassin's creed II, because it's the place where the Villa of Ezio Auditore was (Villa Auditore).
In this video, I'll show you a couple of secrets of Monteriggioni:
1) Does Villa Auditore really exist?
2) Who is the Captain Zeti and why is his ghost still trapped in the well in the main square of Monteriggioni?
Enjoy and let me know if you have any comments and/or questions!
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Eccovi un bellissimo video con vista aerea della famosa città in provincia di Siena Monteriggioni.
Does Villa Auditore really exist in Monteriggioni in real life? Find out from this video!
Here is an aerial view of Monteriggioni, a tuscan city in the province of Siena. It's the city where in Assassin's Creed 2 you can find Villa Auditore.
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Palazzo Strozzi is a palace in Florence, Italy. The palace faces the historical Via de' Tornabuoni.The construction of the palace was begun in 1489 by Benedetto da Maiano, for Filippo Strozzi the Elder, a rival of the Medici who had returned to the city in November 1466 and desired the most magnificent palace to assert his family's continued prominence and, perhaps more important, a political statement of his own status.
A great number of other buildings were acquired during the 70s and demolished to provide enough space for the new construction. Giuliano da Sangallo provided a wood model of the design. Filippo Strozzi died in 1491, long before the construction's completion in 1538. Duke Cosimo I de' Medici confiscated it in the same year, not returning it to the Strozzi family until thirty years later. The palace faces the historical Via de' Tornabuoni.
Palazzo Strozzi is an example of civil architecture with its rusticated stone, inspired by the Palazzo Medici, but with more harmonious proportions. Unlike the Medici Palace, which was sited on a corner lot, and thus has only two sides, this building, surrounded on all four sides by streets, is a free-standing structure. This introduced a problem new in Renaissance architecture, which, given the newly felt desire for internal symmetry of planning symmetry: how to integrate the cross-axis. The ground plan of Palazzo Strozzi is rigorously symmetrical on its two axes, with clearly differentiated scales of its principal rooms.
The palazzo remained the seat of the Strozzi family until 1937. Great changes were made to the building when the Istituto Nazionale delle Assicurazioni occupied Palazzo Strozzi. The palazzo, granted by the Istituto Nazionale delle Assicurazioni to the Italian State in 1999, is now home to the Institute of Humanist Studies and to the Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi. The Gabinetto G.P. Viesseux and the Renaissance Studies Institute have both also occupied the building since 1940. Today the palace is used for international expositions like the now-annual antique show, founded as the Biennale dell'Antiquariato in 1959, fashion shows and other cultural and artistic events, such as Cézanne in Florence. Two Collectors and the 1910 Exhibition of Impressionism. Here also is the seat of the Istituto Nazionale del Rinascimento and the noted Gabinetto Vieusseux, with the library and reading room.
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MONTERIGGIONI Borgo Medioevale - Medieval village Tuscany - HD
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Situato all’estremità settentrionale del proprio territorio comunale, Monteriggioni occupa la sommità di una dolce collina dalle pendici coltivate a vigne e olivi.
Il castello venne fondato nel secondo decennio del Duecento dalla Repubblica di Siena, con il principale scopo di creare un avamposto difensivo contro la rivale Firenze Per secoli l’insediamento svolse in pieno la funzione per cui era stato creato, respingendo di volta in volta una miriade di assedi e attacchi. La sua funzione militare venne meno a partire dalla metà del Cinquecento, quando l’intero Stato Senese, di cui il nostro borgo faceva parte, venne annesso a quello fiorentino.
Monteriggioni conserva ancora oggi gran parte delle strutture del XIII secolo e si configura come un luogo assolutamente unico nel panorama dei borghi medievali toscani.
La cinta muraria, realizzata in pietra, abbraccia la sommità di una collina con uno sviluppo lineare di circa 570 metri.
Dalla superficie esterna sporgono quattordici torri a pianta rettangolare, mentre una quindicesima è addossata alla cortina interna. La loro imponenza dovette essere assai notevole anche nel Medioevo, tanto da suggerire a Dante una famosa similitudine con i Giganti collocati nell’Inferno: “[…] però che, come su la cerchia tonda / Monteriggion di torri si corona, / così la proda che ‘l pozzo circonda / torreggiavan di mezza persona / li orribil giganti […]” (Inf., XXXI, vv. 40-44).
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Located at the northern end of its municipal area, Monteriggioni occupies the top of a gentle hill from the slopes cultivated with vineyards and olive trees.
The castle was founded in the second decade of the thirteenth century by the Republic of Siena, with the main aim of creating a defensive outpost against rival Florence. For centuries, the settlement took place in the middle of the function for which it was created, rejecting each time a myriad of sieges and attacks. Its military function was less from the middle of the sixteenth century, when the whole Senese State, of which our village was part, was annexed to the Florentine.
Monteriggioni still retains much of the thirteenth century structures and is designed as a unique place in the panorama of medieval towns in Tuscany.
The walls, made of stone, embracing the top of a hill with a linear development of about 570 meters.
Fourteen towers protrude from the outer surface with a rectangular plan, while a fifteenth is placed against the inner curtain. Their grandeur had to be very significant in the Middle Ages, much to suggest to Dante a popular similarity with the Giants placed in Hell: [...] However, as of the round / Monteriggion circle is crowned with towers, / so the brink that 'surrounds the well / torreggiavan middle person / giant horrible them [...] (Inf., XXXI, vv. 40-44).
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Basilica Papale di San Pietro in Vaticano
Basilica Papale di San Pietro in Vaticano and commonly known as St. Peter's Basilica, is a Late Renaissance church located within the Vatican City. St. Peter's Basilica has the largest interior of any Christian church in the world, holding 60,000 people.[1] It is regarded as one of the holiest Christian sites. It has been described as holding a unique position in the Christian world and as the greatest of all churches of Christendom.
In Catholic tradition, the basilica is the burial site of its namesake Saint Peter, who was one of the twelve apostles of Jesus and, according to tradition, first Bishop of Rome and therefore first in the line of the papal succession. Tradition and some historical evidence hold that Saint Peter's tomb is directly below the altar of the basilica.
It is associated with the papacy, with the Counter-reformation and with numerous artists, most significantly Michelangelo.