Palazzo Galletti

Overlooking Piazza Gamurrini, Palazzo Galletti is considered the first Renaissance building in Monte San Savino, constructed in the 15th century by the noble Galletti family.

Later owned by the Gamurrini and Baldi families, the palace hosted many illustrious figures over the centuries, including Duke Alessandro de’ Medici, Pope Julius III, Bianca Cappello, Pope Pius VII, and the future Pope Leo XIII.

Today it houses the Municipal Library “Cardinal Giovanni Colombo,” the Municipal School of Music “Umberto Cappetti,” and the Municipal Philharmonic “Ario Gigli.” The elegant façade features three orders of windows and a splendid 16th-century kneeling window supported by sandstone telamons. Inside are a vaulted entrance hall, remains of the 19th-century courtyard, and a bright passage leading to the open-air theater.

A precious terracotta Madonna and Child by Andrea Sansovino, once kept in the ground-floor chapel, is now at the Bargello Museum in Florence.