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Sienna Hotels
The Villa Liberty Hotel is just outside the ancient walls of Siena's historic centre and it is at ten minute's walk from the Piazza del Campo. The hotel has been built on a XX century villa and it still keeps the charm of an ancient private residence.
Its hospitality is rendered unique by the warm welcome and by the outermost cleanliness of the rooms. The hotel also is provided with a lounge room that has a reading area and can host up to 40 people meetings offering videoconference facilities (55" satellite TV, mobile camera, video projector, backlit board and fast internet).
Bed & Breakfast Sienna
Villa Fiorita, located just few metres away from Porta Camollia that let you enter the city, is a small and familiar b&b in Siena offering you warm welcome at your arrival and the privacy you need during your staying. In front of Via Cavour it also has a facade on the back on a beautiful garden where have some relax during the sunny days.
The Bed & Breakfast Gli Archi, built at the end of the 18 Th Century and reconstructed recently, offers a wonderful panorama of the beautiful Sienese country side, a relaxing silence, and walks through the surrounding nature.
Sienna Country Farm Holidays
The country house Armaiolo, immerged in the typical landscape of the clays of Siena, is spread with its land on more than 600 hectares among live oaks woods of the Camaior County.
Sienna Event
Francesca Woodman114 shots to tell the talent of an American photographer who has greatly influenced the last decades of the twentieth century. At the center of contemporary art from the Museum Complex Santa Maria della Scala until February 7.
The Dream of Middle AgesAs part of celebrations for the 700 years of Costituto Senese, at the Complex Museum of Santa Maria della Scala in Siena are exposed 12 of the 17 flags of Contradas from the nineteenth century, all from Stibbert Museum of Florence.
Architects in Siena. Testimonies in the fifteenth and eighteenth centuryUntil April 12 an exhibition in Siena about immense cultural heritage of the Municipal Library of Intronati, in occasion of 250 years since its foundation.
Cinema Portraits in PienzaAt the Auditorium of St. Gregory in Pienza from March 13 to April 11 an exhibition to commemorate Carlantonio Longi (1921-1980), one of the greatest Italian film poster designers and illustrators from '40s to'70s.
Sienna
Sienna Cathedral
At the end of Via del Capitano, you come to Piazza del Duomo with its fairytale view of the cathedral. The variously colored marbles, the beautiful examples of sculpture, the gold of the mosaics, the soaring cusps and pinnacles, the arch of the dome, the lofty two-tone belltower, all seems straight from a fairly tale.
Fortress Medicea
The Fortezza di Santa Barbara was built between 1561 and 1563 by Cosimo de' Medici, the Duke of Florence who also became the Duke of Sienna in 1557.
Piazza del Campo
Piazza del Campo is the heart of the city of Sienna. With its glorious shell shape and the wonderful buildings that surround it, it's certainly the most beautiful medieval piazza in Italy and one of the most beautiful in Western Europe.
Sienna Area
Sienna is not only famous throughout the world for the horse-race called the Palio and the magnificent works of art it so proudly possesses, but also for its sweets and confectionery: the candied, spicy panforte and pampepato; the almond-flavoured ricciarelli; the honeyed-fruit biscuits called copate and the honeyed-nut cavallucci.Still celebrated today, these culinary traditions beautifully compliment Sienna's past, which is on show everywhere in the city center.
