The headquarters of Monte dei Paschi has been at Palazzo Salimbeni for centuries. The bank itself — older than the printing press, older than European voyages to America — is one of Siena's deepest institutional landmarks, and its present difficulties form a quiet undertone to civic life.
A small in-house exhibition in the Palazzo Salimbeni complex can be visited by appointment with the bank's cultural office. Outside, the bronze statue of Sallustio Bandini, the 18th-century economist and Sienese clergyman, is the most visible monument.