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Poggio Bonizio was destroyed in the 1270 by Guy de Montfort, a legendary figure even in Tuscany - he merits a cameo role in Boccaccio's Decameron as well as Verdi's Sicilian Vespers. The town was rebuilt in the lower valley, on the site of the village Marturi.The modern town, much damaged by bombs during the second world war, it is nowadays the biggest industrial area of the Valdelsa. In the city centre we can find the two churches of San Lorenzo and the Choral, the Town Hall with the mayor's crests standing next a battlemented tower.Sites of interest are the Fonte delle fate (fairies' fountain) of the 13th century, by Balugano da Crema, with its beautiful ogival arches and the unfinished fortress, designed in 1478 by Giuliano da Sangallo at the request of Lorenzo the Magnificent. In the XIVth century convent of San Lucchese, first belonging to the Camaldolese order and then from 1213 to the Franciscans, there are frescoes of the XIVth and XVIth century and an urn containing the remains of San Lucchese, patron of the town.  
Here are some pictures of the numerous sightseeings of Poggibonsi and surroundings:

Poggibonsi offers the visitor historical sites of particular artistic interest:

Palazzo Pretorio, in gothic style (the façade is decorated with many coats of arms, among which one representing a lion standing on its hind legs,the symbol of Poggibonsi ),

the Magione of San Giovanni al Ponte, a rare example of a preserved and restored medieval structure dating back to the XIIth century,

the Collegiata of S. Maria Assunta, in front of Palazzo Pretorio; it is a religious building restored in 1680, partly in seventeenth-century style and partly in neoclassical style,

the fortress of Poggio Imperiale, a Medicean fortress built between 1488 and 1511 by Giuliano Sangallo on charge of Lorenzo the Magnificent,

Santuario di Romituzzo, erected near the oratory by some female hermits,

the church of San Lucchese, first belonging to the Camaldolese order and then from 1213 to the Franciscans (there are frescoes of the XIVth and XVIth century and an urn containing the remains of San Lucchese the patron of the town),

the Church of San Lorenzo, built in pure romanesque-gothic style, was erected on the ruins of the church of the Augustinians of Lecceto,

the church of S. Maria Assunta in Talciona, of the XIIth century, in romanesque style,

San Gimignano (10 km) Medieval town of the beautiful towers