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Pro
Small and walkable, lively town, interesting festivals
Con
Lots of visitors, I'm afraid, even out of season.
In a nutshell
An amazing place, the jewel of Tuscany!
113 Reviews Several years after our five week tour of Italy, Nancy and I still remember the cathedral at Siena as the one with the elaborate floor. It is a beautiful building in many aspects, but its inlaid marble mosaic floor is so unique as to make it memorable. The massive task of enlaying the floor panels...
114 Reviews For most of us, the Palazzo Pubblico (City Hall) and its adjacent Torre del Mangia are little more than a spectacular backdrop to Siena's grand meeting place - the Piazza del Campo. These iconic landmarks are well worthy of attention on their own merits. Construction of the palace began in 1297,...
11 Reviews Jutting out from the side of the Cathedral of Siena, this most unusual structure at first seems like an old ruined cathedral. Except it is not a ruin, but an unfinished structure. It is all that is left from the grandest of ambitions of the ephemeral Republic of Siena, which ended with the Plague of...
9 Reviews The Civic Museum is in the town hall and is full of art that mixes both the religious with the secular. While there is lots of see in the museum, you do not want to miss two things – the Maesta by Simone Martini and the Allegory and Effects of Good and Bad Government. They are actually located in...
9 Reviews Two times a year, at the beginning of july and at mid august, Siena celebrates the Palio. Don't even think that the Palio is something arranged for tourists or a staged manifestation. People in Siena "live" the Palio. Everyone in Siena grows up with a sharp feeling of belonging to a "contrada"...
6 Reviews The Enoteca Italiana is located within the walls of the 16th century Fortezza Medicea, and the primary objective of this government-owned institution is to promote Italian wines. Over 1,500 bottles of wine are on display in the cellars, and every day different wines can be sampled in the tasting...
11 Reviews I have been impressed throughout our tour of Tuscan towns by the ancient walls that are still intact. Coming from somewhere where chain link or white picket fences are the norm, it is terrific to see history everywhere you go. While I've been impressed, I won't be rushing home to build my own...
5 Reviews Located on via di Città, the commercial heart of Siena in mediaeval times, la Loggia della Mercanzia was the merchants' entrepôt. It was built in the first half of the 15th century at a transition point in architecture from Gothic to Renaissance styles, as evidenced in the use of rounded arches with...
basstbn Says: The neo-classical facade of St. Christopher Church belies its antiquity. It was built in the 11th-12 centuries, but suffered severe damage during the earthquake of 1798. As a result of reconstruction, the church was down-sized slightly, and the neo-classical facade added,We...
The Statue of Sallustio Bandini
basstbn Says: Sallustio Antonio Bandini (1677-1760) was the founder of the Library of Siena. This monument to Bandini, a work of Tito Sarrocchi, stands in the Piazza dei Salimbeni in front of the Banca Monte dei Paschi, the oldest surviving bank in the world.
MM212 Says: Known as le Due Porte (the Two Gates), this archway was once a gate in the first non-extant city walls. It was originally a double arched gateway, but over time, as the gate was incorporated into the construction of adjacent buildings, one of the two arches was walled in,...
1 Review and 539 Opinions Out of the five hotels we stayed at in Italy, this was by far our favorite. Large rooms and...
2 Reviews and 495 Opinions The hotel cleaning staff broke the keyboard to my laptop. The manager John Luigi called me a liar,...
Gelataria on the Campo: Gelato
basstbn Says: What a great location for a gelato shop! Right on Siena's popular main piazza - the famed Il Campo. That's where everybody meets - whether local or visitor. Perhaps that explains why there are several gelato shops on the piazza. I liked this one - on the city hall side of...
Guido's: Really nice Italian food
rexvaughan Says: Guido's sounds like a cheap spaghetti place in Atlanta, but it is a really nice restaurant in Siena. My wife says it was one of the 2 best meals we had in Italy in 2 weeks. It is on a back street (aren't they all) off the Campo and has an informal but elegant feel to it. It...
Dolce Siena: Local Specialty - Panforte - Rich and Sweet
basstbn Says: Those of us who did not have umbrellas with us hugged the outer walls of Siena's main piazza in an awkward attempt to keep dry and warm. It was a damp morning - not one of those frog-strangling storms we American midwesterners have become accustomed to, but a gentle Seattle...
does it metter?: Enoteca Toscana
croisbeauty Says: Now this is one of the sweetest things Siena could offer to the visitors, wine testing in almost perfect ambient of the local enotecs. That's one of my lifestyles, testing local wines and nibbling excellent cheese. Tuscany is home os some world finest wines, such as Barolo...
MM212 Says: Scattered around Siena are several statues raised on a column of a female wolf suckling two babies, an image considered the emblem of the city. It stems from a legend claiming that Siena was founded by Senius, son of Remus, the twin brother of Romulus, who in turn founded...
croisbeauty Says: What is town? In terms of definition town is densely populated area of considerable size. Should be place with abundant jobs, resonable living costs and plenty of fun things to do. So much about the definitions.Town is made of its streets, houses, shops, restaurants, bars,...
2 Reviews Really exists only one sword in the stone, all over the world. It's S.Galgano's sword. We find it in Tuscany, between Monticiano (Siena) and Chiusdino, near the wonderful ruins of an impressive Abbey without roof with a meadow of green grass as floor and one sword in the stone. A lot of Britan...
Beautiful and unique medieval house
croisbeauty Says: Siena is incredibly beautiful place and to me it is much more attractive than Florence. Maybe it hasn't such a fine palaces and art galleries, made to impress the visitors, but it has that touch of humanity and spontaneity which somehow is missing in Florence. I love the...
croisbeauty Says: Via di Cita is the main street of Siena and considered the most elegant in the city. It is formerly Via Galgaria, the street of shoemakers and most of the locals still call it by that name. This street is shopping paradise of Siena offering fancy cloths, fine shoes, Tuscany...
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The very first view I had at the town of Siena was indeed spectacular. I came to town around 7:00PM and have parked my car next to the huge fortress of Medici, opposite to which, on the next hilltop,...
Siena: a good place to learn Italian :-)
So this was my “entry” into famed Toscana. I don’t like the Toscana very much, especially because of the hype people create around it. It is as if many non Italians reduce Italy to Toscana only and......
Siena deserves to be one of the top tourist attractions in Tuscany. Even filled to the brim with tour groups it is still enchanting. Surely no one can fail to be captivated by the wonderful Piazza del...
The rivalry between Tuscany's two major cities - Florence and Siena - is anything but legendary. Rivals since the Middle Ages, Florence was identified with the pro-pope Guelphs while Siena sided with...
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