After Ambrogio Lorenzetti, the Museum of San Pietro all’Orto, in Massa Marittima, offers another great appointment with Sienese art. The protagonist of the exhibition, from 15 March to 15 September, will be Stefano di Giovanni, better known as Sassetta (active in Siena from 1423 to 1450), the artist who introduced the ferment of the Renaissance into the great fourteenth-century Sienese tradition.
The garden, designed by the landscape sculptress Maria Dompè, is called “Sol omnibus lucet” and is dedicated to the young […]
The palace was built in 1225, when Massa Marittima was still a Free City. Within the travertine walls of the building, the podestà (the […]
The complex of the Clarisse, which now houses the municipal library G. Badii and the Museum of the Risorgimento, was originally the convent of […]
The Park was built in 1924 following the rules that imposed the construction of local memorial monuments to commemorate the fallen of the Great […]
The Church was firstly mentioned in written texts in 1247, as the municipality undertook to build the new parish church for the Civitate Nova […]
The construction of the Church of Sant’Agostino was initiated in 1299 by the Augustinians, who had permanently settled in the town. […]
The Fortress stands in the town centre and was built in 1335-1337 by the Sienese, who integrated the ancient Castello vescovile (Bishop’s […]
The most ancient part of the walls was presumably built by the Massetani in the XII-XIII century. Between the XIII and XIV century, the circuit […]
Tradition has it that San Francesco (Saint Francis of Assisi) stayed in Massa Marittima for a while and promoted there the birth of a first group […]
