Monteriggioni

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Monteriggioni

Total population

10,087

Coordinates43.39°, 11.22°

Demographic figures from ISTAT. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

Overview

Monteriggioni is a comune in the province of Siena in the Italian region of Tuscany. It borders on the communes of Casole d'Elsa, Castellina in Chianti, Castelnuovo Berardenga, Colle di Val d'Elsa, Poggibonsi, Siena, and Sovicille. The town is architecturally and culturally significant. It hosts several piazzas, and is referenced in Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy.

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Notable people from here

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Cennino Cennini

Italian painter (c. 1360 – before 1427)

Jacopo della Quercia

Italian artist (1374-1438)

Arnolfo di Cambio

Italian architect and sculptor (1240–1302)

Daniele Righi

road bicycle racer

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Alessandra Scala

Poet and Greek language scholar

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Romano Bilenchi

Italian writer (1909-1989)

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Alfio Ticci

Italian caricaturist

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Antonio Dei

Italian association football player (1917-2006)

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Antonio Rinieri

Italian poet, humanist and schoolmaster

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Antonio Salvetti

Italian painter (1854-1931)

Bartolomeo Scala

Italian politician and historian (1430-1497)

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Emilio Luci

Italian politician

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Ferruccio Manganelli

Italian painter (1883-1968)

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Francesco Campana

Italian statesman and secretary of Cosimo de Medici

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Gino Manni

Italian association football player (1916-1992)

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Giovanni Cervoni

Italian poet

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

Nearby places in Tuscany

• Lornano
  2.4 mi away
• Staggia Senese
  3 mi away
• Quercegrossa
  4.3 mi away · pop. 1,482
• Santa Colomba
  4.4 mi away
• Fonterutoli
  5.2 mi away
• Vagliagli
  6.6 mi away
• Ancaiano
  6.7 mi away
• Quartaia
  6.8 mi away · pop. 436
• Pievescola
  7.2 mi away
• Volte Basse
  7.3 mi away · pop. 486
• Campiglia dei Foci
  7.4 mi away · pop. 873
• Tegoia
  7.9 mi away

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Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Books about Monteriggioni

Search results from Open Library.

Official Identifiers