Montepulciano

If you go around Montepulciano' streets you will feel that you are in a village of nobles, as noble is its prestigious wine. This village is full of ancient churches and fully decorated palaces, a main square called Piazza Grande (Big Square) just on the top of the hill. You will find there many shops where you can taste wine and nice traditional food. When you have filled your eyes and your belly with all this good stuff you can make a move towards another nice place in the neighbourhood. Outside Montepulciano houses, surrounded by a nice green grass, there is a beautiful and quite big church: the Madonna of Saint Biagio church. My friend, the professor, said that it is a Greek cross church, it means that instead of having a longer arm and a shorter one, it's perimetral area has all the four arms of the same length, as Greek crosses are. He also told me that there is a twin church in a village Todi in another region of Italy, Umbria. This church is called Santa Maria della Consolazione (Saint Mary of Comfort). I have never seen it, but I feel that Madonna di San Biagio church, with its grey colour travertine stone surrounded by green cypress trees, is a queen more than a sister!

WHAT TO SEE:
MUSEUM CIVIC , PINACOTECA CROCIANA

WHAT TO BUY
PICI ( THE FAMOUS SPAGHETTI OF SIENA, AND ABSOLUTY RED WINE : ROSSO DI MONTEPULCIANO AND THE MOST IMPORTANT NOBILE DI MONTEPULCIANO , IF YOU HAVE TIME WE SUGGEST YOU THE WINE TASTING TO THE WINERY “ FATTORIA DI NOTTOLA “ OR POLIZIANO.