Quattro Torri Castle

The castle of the 'Four Towers' rises to the periphery of Siena, is reachable following the indications for the locality of S.Regina.

The most important castle of medieval origin still today practically intact in the immediate outskirts of Siena is without doubt that one known with the name of 'Quattro Torri' (Four Towers). It is located a few hundred meters in air line away from the church of S.Regina and until the 1500 carried this name. Its origin seems to go back at the beginning of the 1300. In the 1376 become property of the family Bichi who, towards the second half of the successive century restored the castle. Thanks to its strategic position the 'Quattro Torri' played a not secondary role at the times of the 'War of Siena' in the middle of 16th century.

The castle is constituted by an imposing mass of square shape built in red bricks endowed with four angle towers with various dimensions but of the same height. The base of the walls is light bastionated, under the battlement we can still admire the machicolation apparatus of classic Sienese style. The gate of access, with its gothic arc, is protected by breteche. The inner courtyard, not of great dimensions, is gifted on two sides by a porticate from which start the stairway that give access upstairs. Transformed in villa is today private residence visible only from outside.