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Roman amphitheater of Arezzo

is an archaeological site of Roman times made to Arezzo, located in the southern part of the "walled city", is accessible from Via and Via F. Crispi Margaritone. Built between the end of the I and the beginning of the second century AD, with blocks of sandstone, brick and marble, has an elliptical shape, with two rows of bleachers.The long axis measuring 121 meters, the capacity reached, presumably, the 8,000 spectators.Repeatedly plundered during the centuries it has been deprived of the most precious materials to build houses of worship. You can still see the audience and part of the ambulatory. On the remains of the hemicycle South was built in the sixteenth century, the Monastery of St. Bernard, now houses the Archaeological Museum.

Medici Fortress

located on the hill of San Donato (B. Buozzi Avenue) to Arezzo, is an important example of architecture of defensive military century.The building perfectly inserted in the walls and the plant pentagonal to adapt to uneven terrain with a different setting and shoe bastions of considerable height compared to the wall to lead, rises to the top of the Prato plateau (305 m).The ramparts of the fortress are a viewpoint over the city, the valley of Arno, and the massif of Alpe Pratomagno Catenaia.

Palace of the Lay Fraternity

is a monument of Arezzo, which is located in Piazza Grande.The building, leased from 1786 to the Civil Court of the Wheel, then said, has had several phases of construction, from the Gothic ( 1375 - 1377 ), the second moment is the Renaissance ( 1433 - 1460 ), documented by the lunette of the portal with the Our Lady of Mercy by Bernardo Rossellini ( 1435 ).The crowning of the facade was built to a design by Giorgio Vasari in 1552.Sixteenth clock is also built by Felix Moat.The Lay Fraternity was founded in 1262 with the official name of the Fraternity of St. Mary of Mercy, by the will of a group of people led by the fathers Dominicans and willing to help the poor and the sick.As a result of bequests and donations to the Fraternity has done big business for the city, including the payment of the loggias designed by Giorgio Vasari.

Theatre Petrarca

is the most important theater of Arezzo.The birth, in 1828, comes from a joint-stock company composed of citizens of Arezzo, who later took the name of Petrarch's Theatre Academy.The task of the project was entrusted to Vittorio Bellini and in 1830 began the construction work.The theater was inaugurated three years later, on 21 April 1833, with the performance of Anna Bolena, with music by Donizetti and a five-act ballet titled Alessandro Palermo.The success of these early representations, obtained thanks to the skill of the actors Brighenti Marianna and Luigi Biondini and appreciated the quality of the designer Gianni di Firenze and Wild impresario Joseph, marked the first milestone in the artistic history of the city and its new theater.

Gaius Maecenas Cilnius State Archaeological Museum

is the most important archaeological museum in Arezzo.Aretino dedicated Gaius Maecenas Cilnius, an important character in Rome at the time of Augustus, from which comes the word patronage, is hosted by 1937 in the former monastery of San Berbardo, built on the ruins of the Roman amphitheater of the second century AD.The collection was previously elsewhere and has existed since 1823.Enlarged by excavation and acquisitions, was rearranged after the renovation of the monastery of 1951, which cured the war damage.In 1973 it was acquired by the Italian State.The nineties was last rearrangement.The museum is on two floors, with a presentation topographic (ground floor) and thematic (the second floor, where there are objects of Paleontology, prehistory, numismatic and private collections donated by some citizens of Arezzo).

Diocesan Museum of Sacred Art

was established in 1963, but regularly opened to the public only in 1985, and located in some local chapter members above the vestry of the Cathedral of San Donato.In 2011 he was transferred within the Episcopal Palace.The Museum exhibits works of art and liturgical suppllettile, dating from the twelfth to the nineteenth century, from the cathedral and churches of the diocese, significant for the history and knowledge of religious culture and artistic Arezzo.The museum, which consists of five rooms, offers a full panorama of history, art and devotion through the centuries Arezzo.

State Museum of Medieval and Modern Art

is located in the Palazzo Bruni-Ciocchi, and is home to paintings, ceramics and glass objects from the Middle Ages and Renaissance.The museum is housed in a Renaissance palace built for the family Bruni, probably by Bernardo Rossellini.The building belonged to the family later Ciocchi Mount, then to Barbolani Montauto.From 1816 it was acquired by the Grand Duchy of Tuscany, finally reaching the Italian State.In the fifties it was decided the establishment of the museum, which was inaugurated in 1972.The museum houses works from the collections for the most part belonged to the Confraternity of the Laity, a charitable purpose association founded in 1272, and the Municipal Gallery of Arezzo, with artistic assets forfeited to the laws of suppression of the nineteenth century.The exhibition is spread over three floors.The two ground floor rooms hold sculptures and fragments of medieval tombstones, columns, capitals and sculptures from the Duomo and other churches of Arezzo.

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