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Podere Il Colombaio 12, Torri Rosia, Siena, Tuscany, 53010, Italy
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Colorful frescoes cover the whole place
Will be in Siena for 5 days in october and booked a farmhouse thats just of the SP 408 road, roughly 1.5 to 4 km from Siena (i thinks it depends if its the centre or the walls) anyway just interested to see if anyone has experience or knows the frequency aswell as the time of earliest and latest buses that go up and down the SP 408 road as im hoping theres no need to rent a car. if anyone has the name of the bus company that would be great to.
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I've stayed in Vagliali and found the bus station in town to be convenient. I'm planning to visit siena in oct as well..!! and looking for a small apartment in t own this time as I don't want to have to rent a car.
hi, may i know which is the farm u'll b staying in Siena? any website for it? We are also looking for farm stay in italy...
Apparently, there is a healthy number of wild boars in the Tuscany region and therefore, the locals have turned wild boar meat as a local specialty or delicacy in Siena. You can get pasta with boar or sweet & sour boar (sounds chinese)
You can find wild boar meat in restaurants or shops, one way of spotting one is they hang a boar's head outside the door (pic)
I haven't tried the Tuscan wild boar, only in Malaysia and it tastes gamey & a little tougher than the standard pork
Abbazia di Monte Oliveto Maggiore is a 14th century monastery located about 36kms south of Siena. It is located on a hill, about a 15-20 minute drive off the main road. We stopped in on our way from Siena to Montalcino.
The monastery is still a retreat for around 40 monks, and you will see some during your visit. The foundations of the monastery can be traced back to 1313.
The car park is uphill (don't use the revolting toilets there, hold on for the ones down the hill), and it is about a 5 minute walk down a steep hill, to the monastery. The highlight of a visit is the stunning frescoes in the Great Cloister, which illustrate the life of St Benedict.
The Abbey is open to visitors each day from: 09.15 - 12.00 and from 15.15 - 17.00 (18.00 in summer).
Located in Chiusura, about 36kms south of Siena
Siena is famous for these Ricciarelli cookies. They are absolutely the best food I've ever had in my life, but they're expensive. These almond flavored cookies are slightly chewy inside with just a hint of honey and almonds covered with a perfect layer of powdered sugar. Fantastic! **THE RECIPE for Ricciarelli**
1 pound whole almonds
(pre-blanched or w/skins) Baking parchment paper (enough to cover baking pans)
1 granulated sugar 1 unsifted powdered sugar
1/4 all-purpose flour 1/4 mild honey
2 egg whites 1 tsp vanilla
Powdered sugar (as needed for rolling and dusting)
Preheat oven to 300 degrees F.
• To blanch almonds, fill a 3-quart pot 3⁄4 full of water; bring to boil. Drop whole almonds into water; boil 2 minutes. Drain almonds; rinse under cold water. OR purchase pre-blanched almonds and skip next 4 steps)
• Spread almonds in a layer on a clean towel or paper towels. When cool enough to handle, squeeze almond between fingers and almond will pop out of skin. Repeat until all almonds are skinned.
• Dry almonds well with towel; discard skins.
• Spread blanched almonds in a single layer in a large baking pan (lined with parchment paper!)
• Bake almonds about 25 minutes, stirring twice, until dried, but not browned; cool.
• BEGIN HERE IF USING PRE-BLANCHED ALMONDS. Place almonds and granulated sugar in a food processor; process until powdered.
• Add 1 cup powdered sugar, flour, honey, egg whites, vanilla; process til well mixed. If mixture becomes too thick, transfer mixture to a bowl and mix with a wooden spoon.
• Divide dough into 8 pieces.
• Sprinkle cutting board generously with powdered sugar; roll each piece of dough into a 1-inch diameter log.
• Cut dough diagonally into 1-inch thick slices.
• Lay each slice down and flatten into a diamond shape, 3/8-inch thick.
• Place cookies 1⁄2-inch apart on lined baking pans.
• Spoon powdered sugar into a sieve; dust cookies.
• Bake until cookies are set but not brown, about 12 to 15 minutes (DO NOT BROWN).
• Cool; dust again with powdered sugar
• When completely cool, store in an airtight container.
YIELD: 5 dozen
...is surely the Piazza. So much to see by just sitting and watching. There was one of those guys who acts like a statue. Sure, it's rather corny, but that takes a lot of patience, talent, and initiative. The dude looked like a statue himself. I'll have to get the photo uploaded sometime.
Opposite Palazzo Comunale at the center of Piazza del Campo is the diminutive (seriously, the fountain is not in proportion with the size of the piazza) Fonte Gaia, literally, Happy Fountain. But just like the David in Florence, what tourists see is a 19th-century replica of the original 15th century fountain by Jacopo della Querica. Three themes are depicted in the fountain: Virtues, Adam and Eve, and Madonna and Child.
The fountain may just be a copy, but the 500-year old aqueduct that delivers water to the fountain daily is not.
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