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Siena Slideshow
Siena
Travel Blogs from Siena, Italy
Tuscany
... it all is. That one, small room has more culture in it than some whole cities! They also talked about how Florence and Siena were always huge rivals. And when Siena heard about the plans in Florence to build a large duomo, the Sienese decided to build ...
Life in Siena
... here over easter was horrible - freezing and wet. Saturday I caught the bus with Edith to Pienza one and half hours south of Siena. A beautiful renaissance town bulit between 1459 & 1462. We were the first ones in the piazza at 9:00am so it was ...
Siena
After a few days in San Gimignano we have moved south to Siena. We have found another stunning campsite about 20kms south of the town with views across the countryside. We made an early start to visit Siena today and ate our breakfast in the Campo - the ...
Siena
... we will load up some photos some time later You know the saying "its a small world" well we pull into Camping Colleverde in Siena about 1pm pick out a spot and the people right next to us are from Eden Hills Adelaide!!!! The autostrada down to here ...
Why French women don't get fat
... . I have made a concerted effort to learn the menu translations - afterall food is important when on holidays. Driving in Italy should be classified as an extreme sport. The girl who made our coffee in Rome warned us about driving in Naples. She ...
Beautiful Siena
... . I personally thought it tasted a bit similar to udon noodles but had the best sauce with sausage. We later view Siena's duomo which was absolutely gorgeous. I did a little shopping with friends and then got caught in a storm so we were ...
2 weeks down
Hi everyone, I can hardly belive I have been away 2 weeks. Last weekend I walked to half of the gates surrounding the city. There is so much to do in between I ran out of time. Everyting is extremely old with huge walls, arches and turrets. The weather ...
Chianti Vineyard
Today we visited a Chianti Vineyard in Siena!! It was really cool to be taken through the process of producing wine. The winery that we went to overlooked this beautiful Tuscan landscape. It was gorgeous AND it wasn't raining! At the winery, we learned ...
Luscious Siena
... The rest of Saint Catherine’s body is in a church in Rome. I would have to say that the most breathtaking landmark in Siena is the Duomo, a gorgeous cathedral made of white and green marble. The cathedral is, for the lack of a better word, striped, ...
A quick update
... in Il Duomo, which was a cool experience. And I understood a solid 10 -15%. Which is pretty decent, I think. Those few pre-Italy masses at Ss. Peter & Paul in North Beach really paid off. Tomorrow I do the horseback riding tour near San Gimignano. ...
Please don't shoot the daisies!
It has been one of the coldest winters and springs in Siena, whether it is officially on record, or just in the minds of the people of Siena. We check the weather forecast for Greenville, South Carolina everyday imagining (and missing) the ...
Siena in rustic, beautiful Tuscany
... and the lone manse with the tree lines drive way. If there is such a thing as reincarnation, I was most certainly an Italian before. Siena was beautiful, we pulled in just as the sun was setting, and bathing the city on the hill was a golden light. My ...
Stripy like the school!
i stopped in siena for the day on my way to florence and after getting a bit lost on my way into town i finally managed to drop my bags off and go exploring. the first thing i saw was some markets, but i'd had enough of those in florence so i just headed ...
Italia vs. Sud Africa
... short entry because its late and there's not much to say but...I went to the Italia vs. Sud Africa soccer game here in Siena! It was just a "friendly game" so basically practice for both teams (which could be seen in some of the sloppy mistakes Italia ...
Burnt Siena.
... in Italy and is surrounded by awesome gothic buildings. But none was as brilliant as its cathedral. The Siena Duomo in said to be the finest in Italy and has amazing black and white stripes throughout the entire structure. Unlike the Florentine duomo, ...
A day in Siena
... there was a jazz concert going on. It was just great. Anyway, we got up early this morning and hopped on a train to Siena. Once there, the hostelworld.com directions promised that our hostel would be a mere 10 min walk from the train station, so we ...
Siena
... 8217;ve meant missing out on Sienna and that would’ve been tragic. Also in the Tuscan region (and therefore beautiful) Siena is a quiet picturesque, medieval town. The city’s old walls are still intact and the narrow, windy, cobbled roads ...
Churches, Climbing, and Campo, Oh My!
Buenosera! After going out lastnight and getting in at about 1:00, I was up this morning at 7:30 to catch a bus for Siena. The school had originally organized a trip to go to Siena and San Gimignano, however, the trip filled up to fast and we were ...
Lovely Siena!
... by a third in 1348 by the Black Death, or bubonic plague that swept across Europe. Today, Siena's population is back to around 60,000. It offers Italy's best medieval city experience. The main square, Il Campo, is the historic meeting point of all ...
Siena
... of the day walking around siena in the pouring rain in shorts and t-shirts whilst our washing back at the campsite got progressively wetter. Siena though was a beautiful town and we had fun looking around and to top it all off i persueded simon to buy a ...
Friends in Italy!
... beautiful and there was a full spectrum of colors as the leaves were changing all over. We spent our first couple days wandering around Siena as we talked and ate lots of italian food. We also explored a couple other smaller towns in the area, did some ...
A Rainy day in Siena
... ; We arrived in the morning and took a bus from the train station of Siena to the historical city. Siena is a hill city, like so many in Italy, and it would have been a long climb up. We basically wandered again. Siena has a really ...
Buona Pasqua!
... Knights of Columbus in South Carolina. On the upside, we were blessed to have been able to experience Easter in Italy and learned some very interesting things, including Easter traditions and musings that we'd like to share. No Italian Easter ...
Siena
... major tourist sights are well worth fighting the crowds. It is beautiful in Tuscany but filled with bus loads of tourists during the day. Siena is really much better at night, after all the crowds have gone. I’ll try to do my part when we get ...
Week (cont.)
Hi everyone, Grab another glass!!!! The last 2 weekends I have spent away from Siena. 12-13th April This weekend I travelled up to Greve in Chianti to spend the weekend with friends of Fiona's who have an ...
Steeeerike!
We were curious (and a little confused) about the bus routes to the Universita di Siena campus at S. Miniato, where Lesly would be teaching next week, and she wanted to familiarize herself with the route. Allora, we decided to take a trip out there ...
Il Mercato nel Campo
... and jugglers throughout the day. A major portion of the market consists of the displays of meats of various farms and butchers from Siena and the surrounding region. And there is no doubt that they are big on the pig in Tuscany; the wave of ...