The village of Montepulciano has a past which depends party to the fact that it was at the crossroads of two streets of regional importance(from Chiusi to Arezzo and from the Val d’Orcia to the Val di Chiana and the Trasimeno) and partly to its strategic collocation at the border with the influence area of several town-potentates of the late Middle Ages(Orvieto, Perugia, Siena and Florence). This has determined in the first centuries the development of remarkable richness and power, so that it reached a valuable autonomy, forming alliances with each other. Unfortunately, its definitive entrance into the Florentine State, after 1511, has confirmed the formal importance through the importance of public and private buildings, created after this year but it has also begun a slow economic and social decline, so that in the XVIII century the Grand Duchy of Tuscany Pietro Leopoldo was worried about it and he wondered about the best way to raise up again to a prestigious but decadent centre . In the XIX century the reclaiming of Val di Chiana and the restored importance of the city, , which became the administrative centre of the city, mark a valuable revitalization, which unfortunately doesn’t continue after the middle of the XX century; the demographic loss of the valley is due to the emigration towards the North. Despite that, the artistic and historical prestige of the city has till nowadays a great international charm.

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