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Film Sets | Films that have been shot in Montepulciano |
La Torre di Pulcinella |
Bellarmino |
Palazzo Bucelli |
Andrea Pozzo|
Andrea Pazienza |
Elemire Zolla
Films that have been shot in Montepulciano:
Cristo Proibito
Directed by Curzio Malaparte
with Raf Vallone and Gino Cervi
1950
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L'Arcidiavolo - Belfagor the magnificent
Directed by Ettore Scola
with Vittorio Gassman
1966
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Le piacevoli notti
Directed by Armando Crispino and Luciano Lucignani
with Gina Lollobrigida and Maria Grazia Buccella
1966
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In nome del Papa Re
Directed by Luigi Magni
with Nino Manfredi
1977
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Nostalghia
Directed by Andrej Tarkowskij
1983
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A spasso nel tempo
Directed by Carlo and Enrico Vanzina
with Massimo Boldi and Christian De Sica
1996
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Il Paziente inglese
Directed by Anthony Minghella
with Juliette Binoche
1996
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Sogno di una notte di mezza estate
Directed by Michael Hoffman
with Kevin Kline and Michelle Pfiffer
1998
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Heaven
Directed by Tom Tykwer
with Cate Blanchett and Stefania Rocca
2002
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Under the tuscan sun
Directed by Audrey Wells
and Raoul Bova
2002
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Discovery of the giants of the Val d'Orcia and the
 It is an unusual itinerary
discovering of some of the silent 'giants', imposing fascinating trees that have dominated their territories for centuries.
Visiting them will be an unusual experience, they are the most beautiful examples in the province of Siena and Tuscany and offer
a really unique sight with their grandeur and grace.
HOLM OAK OF THE MADONNA DELLA QUERCE:
Height: 22mt
Width: 20mt
Diameter: 450cm
Presumed Age: 210 years
Structure of the trunk: globular
Vegetative state: excellent
Locality: Madonna delle Querce
Owner: Prisley Mario
Location area: Montepulciano
Municipality: Montepulciano
MAPLE OF THE CAPPUCCINI:
Height: 18mt
Width: 10mt
Diameter: 170cm
Presumed Age: 150 years
Structure of the trunk: long and thick
Vegetative state: good
Locality: Cappuccini
Owner: Cappuccini Convent brothers
Location area: S. Albino
Municipality: Montepulciano
OAK OF CARBONAIA:
Height: 22mt
Width: 19mt
Diameter: 380cm
Presumed Age: 190 years
Structure of the trunk: globular
Vegetative state: mediocre
Locality: Carbonaia
Owner: Maccioni Nino
Location area: S. Albino
Municipality: Montepulciano
THE OAK OF THE CHECCHE:
This tree actually forms, for the area, a point of reference.
It seems that in the past centuries, around this tree commercial activity was carried out.
Height: 20mt
Width: 19mt
Diameter: 465cm
Presumed age: 360 years
Structure of the trunk: expanded
Vegetative state: excellent
Locality: Le Checche
Owner: Nocchi Brothers
Location area: Pienza
Municipality: Pienza
OAK AT THE FONTANELLE FARM:
Height: 16mt
Width: 14mt
Diameter: 405cm
Presumed age: 370 years
Structure of the trunk: expanded
Vegetative state: good
Locality: Fontanelle Farm
Owner: Gonzi Gaetano
Location area: Monticchiello
Municipality: Pienza
CHESTNUT TREE AT LEGACCIONE:
Height: 22mt
Width: 20mt
Diameter: 427cm
Presumed age: 190 years
Structure of the trunk: expanded
Vegetative state: good
Locality: Lagaccione
Owner: Property of the Tuscan Region
Location area: Vivo d'Orcia
Municipality: Castiglione d'Orcia
GIANT REDWOOD AT SAN MARTINO:
Height: 20mt
Width: 15mt
Diameter: 500cm
Presumed age: 400 years
Structure of the trunk: pyramid shaped
Vegetative state: fair
Locality: San Martino
Owner: Falsetti Elvio
Location area: Piancastagnaio
Municipality: Piancastagnaio
TURKEY OAK AT MONTALTO:
Height: 27mt
Width: 34mt
Diameter: 440 cm
Presumed age: 140 years
Structure of the trunk: globular
Vegetative state: excellent
Locality: Montalto
Owner: Montalto Farm
Location area: Montalto
Municipality: Castelnuovo Ber.ga
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Punchinello Tower
 In front of the St.
Augustine Church rises the low Punchinello Tower on whose summit there is a wooden statue covered in metal, and connected
to the mechanism of the clock below, it strikes the hours. To the right, the Tower guards, of the two parallel streets:
The Ruga di Mezzo (previously the Via delle Arti) and the Ruga di Fuori (previously Via Guerrazzi) an ancient quarter
of attached houses, of typical medieval structure, where the manufactures and producers were located.
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Roberto Francesco Romolo Bellarmino
Catholic saint and Doctor of the Church, born in Montepulciano in Tuscany the 4th October 1542, in the palace of the same name near the Main Square.
Bellarmino, the nephew of Pope Marcellus II, taught for a long time theology in Rome. Passionate about science, he renounced his interest believing that the answer was in his faith. In 1560 he entered into the Jesuit Order. He wrote the catechism of the Christian doctrine that was used until the 1800's. He became a cardinal in 1598 and archbishop of Capua in 1601. In1605 he abandoned his diocese to carry out the work of librarian at the Vatican.
He was a great Inquisitor from 1592 to 1600, under the papacy of Clement VIII, establish the trail of the of the philosopher Giordano Bruno and obtained his condemnation at the stake. His opinion carried an enormous weight in the trail against Galileo Galilei, who was forced to renounce the view of Copernicus, on the sun as a centre (the writings of Niccolò Copernico was put in the Index of prohibited books). The trial concluded in 1616, under the Borghese Pope Paul V.
It is said that in the Vatican he had more influence than the pontiff himself. Many time he was at the point of being nominated Pope, in the conclave that elected Pope Leo XI, Pope Paul V and Pope Gregory XV. He died in Rome the 17th September 1621.
He was beatified in 1923 and canonized in 1930 at the end of a very long process and nominated Doctor of the Church in 1931 by Pope Pius XI.
Still, today Bellarmino is certainly not well remembered by the people of Montepulciano: it is enough to note that in the city there is not one street dedicated to him, nor any kind of recognition. And this happened for various reason, among which are: the opposition of the people of Montepulciano to the reforms of the Council of Trent; the social contrasts and the Medieval freedom of spirit at the time of Bellarmino; the Jesuits and the people of Montepulciano, the opposition to the Council of the female monasteries of St. Jerome and of St. Clair; the diatribe with the Cathedral Chapter and the contrasts with the parish of St. Bernard.
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Bucelli Palace
The Bucelli Palace, situated in Montepulciano in via di Gracciano nel Corso, present on the base are slabs with inscriptions
in Etruscan and Latin and cinerary urns, that are witness to Etruscan-Roman presence in the area. In 1781, in fact, part of
the archaeological material discovered in the area were bought for the Grand-ducal Gallery, while numerous tombstones were fitted
into the base of the 15th century palace, where they still make up one of the major examples of urban ornamentation with
archaeological materials.
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Andrea Pozzo
(Trento, 30th November 1642 - Vienna, 31st August 1709)
Andrea Pozzo, painter and architect, after being educated, went to Verona and Venice where he obtained more directly the art teaching of the great masters of the 1500's, and whose teaching he always remained fundamentally inspired. In 1665 he went to Milan, where he became part of the Jesuit Order. Then he went on to Genoa where he came into contact with the art of Rubens. He worked for a S. Francesco Borgia at the church of St. Ambrose in Genoa and carried out other works in Novi Liguria and Sanremo. On returning to Milan, he then went in 1675 to Turin. The following year he returned to Mondovi to fresco the church of St. Francis Saverio then called the Mission. He was occupied for around two years in this work, showing his architectural vision, dating back to Borromini and to Guarini, who conceived the illusionary space in a synthesis of set paintings, real and apparent architecture. Then passing on to Turin, invited to Court, to decorate the church of the Martyred Saints. He remained in Turin until 1679, and did not return again.
In the meantime he made a crossing to Milan, Como and Modena: in these last cities he left in the church of St. Bartholomew a false dome, realized and finished by the Jesuit laity Luigi Barbery. At the end of 1681 he found himself in Rome, where he remained until 1702; here he was particularly busy with the execution of the frescos in the church of St. Ignatius and in the rooms annexed to the convent, and after, he executed the famous altar of the church. In this phase his scientific interest on perspective was accentuated: in fact working on his important theoretic work Painting and Architectural Perspective. At the beginning of 1685 he frescoed the Jesuit church at Frascati with a false altar and false poles. In 1694 he carried out the frescos in the refectory of the convent of the Sacred Heart at the Trinity of the Mounts.
In 1702, the Austrian ambassador via the pontiff, invited him to Vienna as a court painter. During the voyage, he stopped in Florence and remained for some time working in Tuscany, in Arezzo and Montepulciano: he most important works in this city are the Festival Salon in the Del Monte Contucci Palace and the Jesuit Church. After passing through Trento, he reached Vienna, probably at the end of the 1703. Among the many works he carried out in this city, remain the decoration of the Liechtenstein Palace, the Jesuit College and the refined altarpiece the Assumption of the University College. He worked as well, for Leopold I on the imperial villa of the Royal mistress and for Joseph I on the imperial theatre (these works were not carried out).
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Andrea Pazienza
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An absolute genius of comics, Andrea Pazienza was born San Benedetto del Tronto the 23rd May 1956. He spent his youth in San Severo, a town in the Puglia plain. At thirteen he transferred to Pescara where he attended the Artistic High School (he had already started to study in Foggia) and participated in the Municipal Art Laboratory 'Convergenze'. He was already practically a genius of design and those around him found it difficult not to notice, also because Andrea was an exuberant and volcanic type, with an exacting creativity. Finishing his studies at the high school he enrolled at DAMS, in Bologna. In the spring of 1977 the magazine 'Alter Alter' published his first comic story. The extraordinary adventure of Penthotal. In the winter of 1977 he participated in a project for the underground magazine 'Cannibale', And was among the founders of the magazine 'Il Male' and 'Frigidaire', and collaborated with the most important journalist heads from an Italian point of view, from Satyricom of 'La Repubblica', to Tango of 'l'Unita', to the independent fortnightly 'Zut', while continuing to write and design stories for the magazine such as 'Corto Maltese' and 'ComicArt'.
Designing as well posters for cinema and theatre, sets, costumes and clothes for stylists, animated cartoons, record covers, advertising. In 1984 Pazienza transferred to Montepulciano. Here he carried some of his most important work such as Pompeo and Zanardi. The first of three. Collaborating with various initiative publishers among which were the Green Diary for the Lega North, for the Environment.
Andrea Pazienza died suddenly at only thirty two years of age, the 17th June 1988 in Montepulciano, to the distress of his close family and his collaborators, leaving a real emptiness that cannot be filled; not only artistically, but also of his vitality, fantasy, sensibility and joy of life.
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Elemire Zolla
Born in Turin in 1926, an essayist and critic, professor of American literature first at the University of Genoa and then at the "La Sapienza" of Roma, he was an anti-progress thinker or better still anti-modern, he was interested in Oriental culture and religions was always looking to discover, under the surface, the different symbols, signs and figures that moved the Orient and the West nearer. A difficult route and controversial list, from his Anglican origins, involving the esoteric and mystic doctrines in defence of a spiritual one, according to his thoughts, suffocated by modern materialism. Recuperating the cultural treasures of populations from near and far, digging in the garden below the house or in the lost territories of the planet, to known how to indicate them, after having liquidated the modern and post-modern transgressions, the way of a conscience, both hard and luminous. From 1969 to 1983, he ran a magazine, religious Consciousness, and collaborated with writers whose opinions avoided that of the defined "general decadence". His production of books and essays was vast but despite his success and international fame, however, in Italy he remained isolated and disliked by the cultural world of the intellectual supremacy and ignored by the men of power. He died in the spring of 2002 in his house in Montepulciano, where he had lived for many years, among those Sienese hills that he considered a "uninterrupted teaching, a perpetual melody, a drunken discovery".
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