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Montepulciano
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Hill town with buildings by major Renaissance architects and Tuscany’s second greatest wine, Vino Nobile (see Vino Nobile di Montepulciano). Via Gracciano nel Corso is lined with Renaissance palazzi by the likes of Vignola and Antonio Sangallo the Elder, but also look out for Palazzo Bucelli (no. 73), its base embedded with Etruscan urns. Piazza Grande is flanked with palaces by Sangallo, the town’s Duomo and the Palazzo Comunale, which is Michelozzo’s tribute to Florence’s Palazzo Vecchio. Inside the Duomo are sculptures by Michelozzo that once formed a single tomb, while the gilded altarpiece is Taddeo di Bartolo’s Sienese Gothic masterpiece of 1401.
Set on a patch of grass below the town walls is Sangallo’s geometrically precise Tempio di San Biagio (1518–34), the best example of the High Renaissance trend towards Greek Cross churches.
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