Opening hours Villa: visible only from the outside; church: every day 9am-1pm /3pm-7pm. Holy mass every Sunday at 10am
Contacts Tel: + 39 0577 304834
Address Loc. Santa Colomba, 53035 Monteriggioni (SI)
The village has medieval origins but suffered serious damage in 1364 during the passage of the company of Giovanni Acuto (John Hawkwood).
Of this period, the church, containing valuable frescos from the 14th century, and a defence tower which was later used as a bell tower for the religious building remain.
Other remains of medieval walls can be seen in the base of the grandiose Renaissance villa which stands at the centre of the small hamlet and was built between the end of the 15th and the beginning of the 16th century by the Lord of Siena, Pandolfo Petrucci.
Attributed to the Sienese architect Baldassarre Peruzzi, it was originally equipped with a majestic garden which was destroyed to make place for the subsequent extensions to the villa itself.
