Town Hall

Palazzo Comunale, formerly Palazzo Pretorio or Palazzo Podestà, today is the seat of the Municipality. The palace was built between 1210 and 1220, its municipal organisation is attested as from 1233, with a Rector and sixteen Councilors, and in the mid-13th century, the installation of a Sienese Podestà is documented.

The building, made of burnished reddish brick, has undergone various modifications over the years and today presents a linear façade decorated with stone coats of arms with a double row of windows, at the centre of which a small balcony also protrudes.

To the left of the façade stands the Clock Tower, where the Medici coat of arms, affixed immediately after the seizure by Florence in 1554, stands out.

Inside the palace, in the council chamber, there are frescoes painted in 1867 by the Florentine painter Ferdinando Folchi, in the late Romantic spirit of the Risorgimento.

At the centre of the square, the curious metal well, of modern construction, marks the location of the cistern beneath the pavement, built around 1438, that supplied the village with water in ancient times.