Siena
WHERE NOT A SINGLE STONE HAS CHANGED DOWN THE CENTURIES
The three hills on which it stands are the high points in an idyllic backdrop of arable fields, where the edges of the ancient city melt into a countryside which in places looks like the background to Ambrogio Lorenzetti's painting Allegory of Good Government in the Palazzo Pubblico.
The Siena that greets you today is largely the same as it would have appeared back in 1300, and the preservation of its unique, coherent inheritance of medieval architecture is one of the main reasons to visit such a magnificent city, which has for a long time been all too aware that it lives in a fragile equilibrium.
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Siena Cathedral
The Duomo di Santa Maria Assunta is the Siena Cathedral and it’s one of the most important and magnificent Romanesque-Gothic churches in Italy. Siena was at the height of its powers and wanted an even larger Cathedral, but this dream dissipated as a result of the 1348 plague: traces of this ambitious project are still visible in […]
Mangia Tower
Dominating Piazza del Campo, the Mangia Tower stands tall, one of the most famous in Tuscany and, with its 87 metres in height (102 if you include the lightening rod), the third tallest historic tower in Italy. It’s the civic tower for the Palazzo Pubblico, the city’s town hall, and its height was meant to symbolize the free communes […]
Piazza del Campo
It is the heart of Siena, the fulcrum of its historic center, declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and one of the most beautiful squares in the world. Piazza del Campo, the “shell” divided into nine sections as a testament to the Nove Signori (Nine Lords) that governed the city at the end of the […]
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