The town of Montepulciano has a past linked partly all'essersi found at the intersection of two roads of regional importance (from end to Arezzo and Valdorcia the Valdichiana and at once) and in part to its strategic location on the border of the influence of various low medieval potentate citizens (Orvieto, Perugia, Siena, Florence).
The result has been that in the first centuries has developed achieved wealth and power at the point of appreciable gain autonomy good selling its alliance with major cities in perennial conflict between them.
Unfortunately his final entry in the Florentine state after 1511, when he consecrated the importance formal through the importance of public and private buildings made after that date, it has started a slow economic decline and social, to the point that in the eighteenth century, the Grand Duke of Tuscany Peter Leopold worried about it, and questions about ways to restore life to a prestigious much as decadent. In the nineteenth century the remediation of the Valdichiana and the renewed importance of the city, which becomes the administrative center of the area, will mark an appreciable revitalization, but no more than half of the twentieth century; loss demographic of the valley for the emigration North. Despite this prestige artistic and historic town is still an appreciable charm also at the international level.

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