Monteriggioni
September 2008
Monteriggioni is a walled village with turrets, now, another tourist village. The photos show our approach, time within the town, and departure the next day for Siena. In The Inferno, Dante referred to Monteriggioni:
As with circling round
Of turrets, Montereggion crowns his walls;
E’en thus the shore, encompassing the abyss,
Was turreted with giants, half their length
Uprearing, horrible, whom Jove from heaven
Yet threatens, when his muttering thunder rolls.
—as translated by Henry Francis Cary during the years 1805–1844
and printed in Wikipedia
