Monte San Savino

• Name — Monte San Savino • Official Name — Città di Monte San Savino • Image Shield — Monte San Savino-Stemma.svg • Region — Tuscany • Province — Arezzo (AR) • Frazioni — Alberoro, Dreini, Gargonza, Montagnano, Palazzuolo, Verniana • Mayor — Gianni Bennati • Area Total Km2 — 89.66 • Population Total — 8676 • Population As Of — 3o November 2017 • Population Demonym — Savinesi • Elevation M — 330 • Saint — Saint Savinus • Day — December 7 • Postal Code — 52048 • Area Code — 0575 Monte San Savino is a town and comune in the province of Arezzo, Tuscany (Italy). It is located on the Essa stream in the Valdichiana. Several of its frazioni occupy higher hills, like Gargonza at 560 m and Palazzuolo, at an elevation of 600 m.

Monte San Savino was one of the first urban settlements in Tuscany, Italy. It originated around 1100, but a further century had to pass before Monte San Savino could be considered a centre of a certain social, political and cultural importance of Tuscany in those times. The town was home to a Jewish quarter and synagogue for nearly 2 centuries, which was later sold after forced flight of the Jews in 1799 following the Viva Maria movement.

• Palazzo di Monte • Logge dei Mercanti • Palazzo Pretorio • Cassero • Santi Tiburzio and Susanna: 13th-century church at Gargonza, housing Tuscan Renaissance paintings. • Church of the Misericordia (1175, rebuilt in 1749). Its organ is one of the most ancient in Italy. • Church of the Compagnia del Suffragio: closed 17th-century church with 19th-century frescoes by Luigi Ademollo • Sant'Agostino early 14th century, enlarged in the 16th century). Conventhas a cloister from 1532. Both the church and the cloister were renovated by Andrea Sansovino (who was born here) in the early 16th century. The interior houses paintings by Spinello Aretino's school, by Paolo Schiavo and one Assumption by Giorgio Vasari. • Sanctuary of Santa Maria delle Vertighe, rebuilt in the 16th century. It houses a fresco of the Virgin Enthroned with Child by Margaritone d'Arezzo and a diptych (1520) by Ghirlandaio.

• Pope Julius III • Angelo Fantoni, Catholic priest and exorcist • Giulio Salvadori, poet and educator