The commune of Monteriggioni has its chief town in proximity of the homonym fortitude of the XIII century. It is found in the province in Siena, to an altitude of 356 meters s.l.m. and it has a population of around 7000 inhabitants.
Although the principal housing nucleus is already well consolidated around the year Thousand, the castle you/he/she has been built only beginning from 1213, for wish of the Republic Senese, in correspondence of an ancient farm longobarda. I sweep principal of its building is to garrison the street that conducts in Florence creating a sort of defensive outpost in Siena.

It represents one of the first castles built by the senesis, which have always preferred to already purchase existing fortresses from feudal noble in decadence.
Dominated by two doors, one said "romea" that it gives on Siena and the other that it turns toward Florence, the castle is conceived with imposing defensive measures as the "carbonaie", pits that floods of ready coal are held to always to be set on fire for preventing the approach the boundaries of the enemies. There am besides towers, rolling shutters and a "rivellino", a second entry that serves as antechamber to the Florentine Door. More than once Florence it tries in vain to conquer the city, between 1244 and 1254 and in 1269, when the Senesis mend to Monteriggioni after their defeat in the battle of Hill Val of hilt.

In the XIV century the suburb firmly remains still in the hands of the Senesis despite the scourge of the plague and an attempt to occupy him/it, perpetrated by a group of exiled senesi in 1383 and failure for the not intervention in Florence. Nevertheless, the development of the shot dust and the consequent birth of the artillery, reduce notably the imbattibilità of the castle. You lower the boundaries and you eliminate the carbonaies, Monteriggioni modernizes his/her structures and succeeds in going out unharmed from the 1554 siege operated by the pontifical army historical ally of Florence.

Little time later however, captain Zeti's betrayal, that the city delivers to the Florentines without fighting, makes to capitulate the castle and flattens the road to the definitive conquest of the senese from the troops medicee.
The inhabitants of the fortitude are humiliated and deported and the territory definitely passes under the dominion of the Granducato in Tuscany remaining you up to the unity of Italy. During the following centuries the castle passes of ownership notable times thin to be purchased in 1704 by the Gricciolis. In modern epoch you/he/she is transformed in free commune, but the Gricciolis still boast of many possessiones both inside the boundaries and in the surrounding contado.