Experience the best of Montepulciano
Montepulciano is a Renaissance hill town in southern Tuscany, known for its Vino Nobile wine, cellars beneath the palaces and wide valley views.
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Montepulciano climbs a ridge, its main street rising between Renaissance palaces and towers to the Piazza Grande at the top. The square is framed by the town hall, whose tower recalls Florence's Palazzo Vecchio, the cathedral and the Palazzo Contucci, and a well decorated with griffins and lions stands in the middle. Below the town, the Church of San Biagio, a Renaissance travertine church by Antonio da Sangallo the Elder, stands among cypresses.
Beneath the palaces lie cellars cut into the rock, where Vino Nobile ages in barrels. Pienza, the ideal town planned by Pope Pius II, and Montalcino, a hill town of Brunello wine, are within a short drive, and Etruscan Chiusi and Lake Trasimeno in Umbria are close. The Val d'Orcia, a World Heritage landscape of ridge-top villages and cypress-lined roads, stretches to the west.
Vino Nobile di Montepulciano is made largely from a local clone of Sangiovese, called Prugnolo Gentile. Pici, thick hand-rolled pasta, is served with wild boar or garlic and tomato, and pecorino from Pienza, lentils and Cinta Senese pork complete the table. In late August teams of locals roll heavy barrels uphill to the Piazza Grande. Spring and autumn are the gentle seasons for climbing the steep main street.
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