The detail positioning on the ridge to collinare between Valdichiana and Val d' Orcia has marked the history of the city of Montepulciano characterizing some also the city design. The Municipality of Montepulciano has approximately 15.000 inhabitants of which a third party in the chief town and Kmq is extended for a 165 surface of; it is the larger Municipality between ten of the senese Valdichiana. It is raised above sea level on a hill to 605 meters and from it can be spaced on the valleys and the territories of this municipality; the landscape is rendered still more gradevole from the cultivations of olive trees and vineyards and from the multiple natural aspects of the zone like cretose hills and the cypresses that model the landscape vertically. From the Tower of the rinascimentale Palace of the Municipality the Sibillini Mounts and the Cimone and with time are caught a glimpse exceptionally clearly the Great Pebble of Italy in Abruzzi. From Montepulciano they are easy raggiungibili the Val d' Orcia (Pienza, Saint Quirico, I bathe Vignoni), the Amiata, the Umbria (Perugia, Assisi, the Lake Trasimeno) and the Lazio.

Sure solo from the 715 was inhabited in age Etruscan, but famous with the name of Mons Politianus, it can be said that its city organization is asserted in definitive way not before the second half of XIII the century, in correspondence of the territorial transformations due to the impaludamento of the Valdichiana and the relative one to move itself towards the West of the communications: the primary nucleus of Montepulciano attests own on the new viario axis for the Val d' Orcia and Siena. This first phase of the city system can be recognized in the found part more of the city that is puts into effect them (its southern zone), essentially articulated around the emerged poles of the Rocca and the Pieve di S. Maria (passing).

The building circuit, that Pebble left from the Rocca (), probably enclosed the zone comprised between via Greens - via Piè to the Pebble - via Potsherds, and was closely consequent to the same physical conformation of the Hill, opportunely smoothed and cut in order to allow the inhabited takeovers. But the increase of the center turned out particularly important for the two powerful municipalities of Siena and Florence, than, through the possession of the city could of fact to make sure the control of the Valdichiana and the Val d' Orcia. In fact, fiorentini and senesi met many times over for the possession of Montepulciano, and in the 1232 the Senesi succeeded to get hold of the city after to have some shaved to the ground it walls to them. From this moment, and for approximately three centuries, the city alternatively enters in the senese orbit or fiorentina, while it consolidates to its inside, the presence of a high mercantile bourgeoisie and a manifacturing and agricultural bourgeoisie, which fuse their wealth and power on the exchanges and the commerce. Around the half of XIII the century, the city is become larger in derezione of the height of S.Francesco, around the ways of Cagnano-Piè to the Pebble, and long the trajectory puts into effect of it them via Cavour till the public square of the Grass.

An ulterior increase verification then in the XIII-XIV century and door to the unification of the distances of via Piè to the Pebble and via Cavour with most ancient via of the Curls, thus settling down itself the definitive city system. From the three hundred in then the role of Montepulciano it appears in this age clearly delineated: its mercantile activities of wide beam draw advantage from the position privileged of the city on important viari aces, while the local commerce is leaned to a market that ago gives node of exchange between the agricultural products of the Valdorcia and of good part of the Valdichiana. A precise articulation of the city woven one in connection with the various functions derives some.

Thus the representative pole can be characterized in the Large Public square institutional; in via of the Curls the axis of the mercantile activities; the public square of the Grass, mails nearly emblematically to the crossing of the coming practicability from the Val d' Orcia and the Valdichiana, like the destined place at the market of the vettovaglie; at last the “Wrinkles” and the village of last expansion (Gracciano, Ciliano) are the preferred zones of the manifacturing activities. But if the three hundred are a century of great city floridezza, it is also the moment in which it is assisted to maturing of lives inner conflicts to us to the dominant groups, till establishing itself of the lordship of the family Of the Sheep, than it governed to you with alternate vicissitudes, till the submission of Montepulciano to the Fiorentini in 1390 (dealt undersigned in 1404).

In the course of the 1400's the effects of the dominion fiorentino regarding the political-administrative aspect are not only found in the city, but also in the field more properly architectonic-urbanistico. In fact on the insediativo system already defined a work of requalification of the spaces and main the viari aces takes part. Before the important operation is the sistemazione of the Large Public square, undertaken from architect fiorentino Michelozzo Michelozzi with rearranges of the Communal Palace. After a last period of senese domination (1495-1511) Montepulciano it knows in XVI the century one process of renewal ineguagliato from its city image; with the presence of Antonio from Saint Gallo the Old one, that it attends to the intense activities of the Fortress, constructs to the church of the Madonna di S. Biagio and numerous signorili Palaces (Contucci, Cecconi, Cervini), takes to the way a building activity of reciprocation without precedence, to which then they contribute also other architects like Baldassarre Peruzzi, Jacopo from Vignola, Barefoot Ippolito.

The importance of the City is emphasized from its erection to episcopal center beginning from 1561. From 1609 to the 1636 Montepulciano the free government of its vedova Cristina di Lorena was destined for testament of Ferdinand to; and beginning from such period numerous and huge realizations were come true you religious constructions (completion of the Dome; churches of the Jesus, S. Lucia, S. Bernardo, S. Giuseppe, S. Lorenzo). From the half of XVIII the century, in concomitanza with the lorenese program aiming to a sistemazione of the Valdichiana, it is assisted inside to a slow process of requalification of the city woven one, that it has its more meaningful moment in the construction of the Theatre Poliziano (1793-96). But the definitive incidence on the functions of the city had place to the term of the reclamations of the Valdichiana, when it was traced the new connecting plain practicability Arezzo, Foiano, Bettolle, Sluices (1835).

The glares of this new organization of the territory are clearly leggibili in all the adjacent collinari centers to the Valdichiana through a discreet increase of the population (to Montepulciano are passed from 8437 inhabitants dl 1811 to 9945 in 1837, to 12.284 in 1851). But the construction of the railway line of fondovalle (1844) favors a first sliding to goes them of business activity them and productive that they see engaged the local bourgeoisie. This bourgeoisie since the first postunitary years finds in Chianciano and Chiusi the centers of interest for own entrepreneurial activities. For all XIX the century instead Montepulciano one defines with crescent incisività like agricultural market and place of transformation of agricultural products; and this finds confirmation in the realization of Sericultural Plant (1869) located in the Rocca, and the Practical School of Agriculture (1882), in the last one ventennio of the 1800's some participations of rationalization of the city system are put into effect legacies to hygienic-sanitary motivations of character and “building honor”: of the Slaughter houses Publics and the sistemazione of the Garden of Poggiofanti (1866-75 are an example) that it rises as place of “I immediately walk” outside of the Door to the Prato in the part North of the city.

Beginning from the first years of the 1900's the external practicability in Chianciano-Sluice direction is assisted to a movement of the productive activities and the long residence, fact that generates an obvious transformation of use of the city. The ancient center turns out used today for functions of prestige, administrative and of representation which banks, assurances, communal administration and several offices.