Monte San Savino is a town and

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in the

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(

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). It is located on the Essa stream in the

Valdichiana The Val di Chiana, Valdichiana, or Chiana Valley, formerly Clanis Valley, is a tectonic valley of central Italy, whose valley floor consists of important alluvial residues filled up since the 11th century, lying on the territories of the provinc ...

. Several of its

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occupy higher hills, like Gargonza at and Palazzuolo, at an elevation of .

History

Monte San Savino was one of the first urban settlements in

. It originated around 1100, but a further century had to pass before Monte San Savino could be considered a centre of a certain social, political and cultural importance of Tuscany in those times.

Main sights

* ''Palazzo di Monte'' * '' Logge dei Mercanti'' * ''Palazzo Pretorio'' * ''Cassero'' * ''Santi Tiburzio and Susanna'': 13th-century church at Gargonza, housing Tuscan Renaissance paintings. * Church of the ''Misericordia'' (1175, rebuilt in 1749). Its organ is one of the most ancient in Italy. * Church of the Compagnia del Suffragio: closed 17th-century church with 19th-century frescoes by Luigi Ademollo * ''Sant'Agostino'' early 14th century, enlarged in the 16th century). Conventhas a cloister from 1532. Both the church and the cloister were renovated by

Andrea Sansovino Andrea dal Monte Sansovino or Andrea Contucci del Monte San Savino (1529) was an Italian sculptor active during the High Renaissance. His pupils include Jacopo Sansovino (no relation). Biography He was the son of Domenico Contucci of Monte ...

(who was born here) in the early 16th century. The interior houses paintings by

Spinello Aretino Spinello Aretino (c. 1350 – c. 1410) was an Italian Painting, painter from Arezzo, who was active in Tuscany at the end of the 14th and the first decade of the 15th century.Paolo Schiavo Paolo Schiavo, the pseudonym of Paolo di Stefano Badaloni (1397–1478) was a Florentine painter. Born in Florence, Paolo Schiavo enrolled in the Guild of Doctors and Apothecaries (''Arte dei Medici e Speziali'') in 1428. According to Vasari, he ...

and one ''Assumption'' by

Giorgio Vasari Giorgio Vasari (30 July 1511 – 27 June 1574) was an Italian Renaissance painter, architect, art historian, and biographer who is best known for his work ''Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects'', considered the ideol ...

. * Sanctuary of ''Santa Maria delle Vertighe'', rebuilt in the 16th century. It houses a fresco of the ''Virgin Enthroned with Child'' by Margaritone d'Arezzo and a diptych (1520) by Ghirlandaio.

Notable people

Pope Julius III Pope Julius III (; ; 10 September 1487 – 23 March 1555), born Giovanni Maria Ciocchi del Monte, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 22 February 1550 to his death, in March 1555. After a career as a disting ...

* Angelo Fantoni, Catholic priest and exorcist * Giulio Salvadori, poet and educator

References

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