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Chigi

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Chigi

Italian family, originally from Siena, that included Agostino Chigi (1465–1520), a Roman banker and patron of the arts who built the Villa Farnesina in Rome (1508–11); Fabio Chigi (1599–1667), Pope 1652–67, better known as Alexander VII; and Flavio Chigi (1810–1885), created a cardinal in 1873.



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The 11th-century stone church stands at the base of a hill on the southeast corner of the piazza and houses the Bernini masterpiece, the sculpture of Habakkuk and the Angel in the church's Chigi Chapel.
The 75-bedroom Castel Monastero hotel in Tuscany is 14 miles from Siena in the medieval village of Monastero dell'Ombrone, once home of the Chigi Saracini family of Siena, and has a spa and "wellness" centre.
After we were given the warning to be silent, we all gathered inside near the Chigi Chapel, which was designed by Raphael and filled with works by
 
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