Sienna Italy
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Val di Merse
Val di Merse vuol dire boschi e acque: una natura lussureggiante incastonata fra le Crete Senesi e la Maremma. La tipica macchia di ginestre ed erica si alterna ai lecci, ai cerri e ai castagni, creando luoghi ombrosi e solari allo stesso tempo.
Torre del Mangia
Palazzo Pubblico is dominated by the soaring tower, the Torre del Mangia, around 102 meters high and built between 1338 and 1348.
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.
Crete Senesi
Le Crete e i loro colori particolari: i grigi, i gialli chiari, gli ocra polverosi, che sfumano dalle insenature dei "calanchi" alle colline a cupola conosciute col nome di "biancane". Un paesaggio "lunare", che lascia perplessi e ammirati di fronte agli sconvolgimenti naturali che un milione di anni fa hanno permesso a queste terre di diventare così uniche.
Cathedral Façade
The lower section of Sienna Cathedral Façade was the work of Giovanni Pisano. It is distinguished by three large, elaborate, polychrome arches that herald the monumental doors.
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.
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.
Cathedral interior
The interior of the cathedral is stunning. The banded two-tone arches with their full round curves follow one another in harmonious lines and they provide a perfect backdrop to the works of rare beauty which decorate the building.
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.
Chianti
The Chianti and its red rubbish wine, with its flavour of "mammaola" and its harmonious taste: without any doubt, it is an inseparable association, but the Chianti is also more.
The Areas in Sienna
Sienna and the Area
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