Monte San Savino can also be explored by going down. Beneath the buildings and streets of the historic centre, the town preserves spaces that tell of very distant eras: an underground structure traced back to the Etruscan world and the great Cisternone that for centuries collected the town's water.
In the rock, the oldest traces
The hypogeal structure that emerged near the former Jewish quarter shows staircases, worked walls and decorative motifs that have reopened the dialogue with the Etruscan origins of the territory. Its presence beneath buildings of later periods makes visible the layering of Monte San Savino: a town built without entirely erasing what preceded it.
The Cisternone beneath Palazzo di Monte
The great cistern, built between the 16th and 17th centuries beneath the town hall, can be walked through via a walkway. It once supplied water to the population; today it feeds the municipal hanging garden. Entering it means discovering the hidden engineering behind the Renaissance elegance of the historic centre.