The guided tour will continue penetrating into the medieval heart of Arezzo passing through Corso Italia where noble palaces overlook the ground floor which preserve pieces of Roman floor mosaics (e.g. Palazzo Lambardi) to reach the Pieve di Santa Maria Assunta, the oldest church in the historical center in Romanesque style, characterized by a high bell tower, a facade with overlapping loggias, sculpted portals including the one with “12 Months” and a majestic interior, with the “Polyptych” with a gold background by Pietro Lorenzetti.

Walking through the narrow medieval streets that take their name from the artisans who had a shop there (eg Via di Seteria), you arrive at Piazza Grande, an ancient downhill market square surrounded by 13th century tower-houses, from the Palazzo della Fraternita dei Laici with the sixteenth-century astronomical clock and the Vasari’s Loggias, a magnificent building with arches designed by Giorgio Vasari to house the ateliers of the most important artisans in the city. In the square, the guide will make you relive the atmosphere of medieval knightly jousting, describing the event that takes place there twice a year in summer, the “Saracen Joust” (“Giostra del Saracino”).