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Siena
Travel Blogs from Siena, Italy
Day 347 - Wine Tasting in Tuscany
... the globe, I leapt at the opportunity to spend some quality time with them in the heartland of Tuscany. I never would have visited Italy if it weren’t for them, and I’m so glad that I did. It reignited my love for that country, ...
Day 5 - Monteriggioni and Siena
... of viewing the relic of St. Catherine's actual head and finger. From there we walked through the scenic streets of Siena past many fantastic boutiques along with the world's oldest bank to Siena's duomo. The Duomo was planned to be the ...
Siena
Paradise... As you can tell our journey has brought us to one of Italy's hidden gems, Siena. After taking a very indirect train from Florence we arrived in Siena late on Friday night. Walking up to the town which is perched on a mountain, Marko was ...
Under the Tuscan sun
... ! Thankfully our luggage was in safe hands with Olivia and Marcus and we didn't have to worry about it whilst making our way through Italy and we able to retrieve it once we arrived! It seemed the town was a little to busy for what we thought, but ...
VISITTING SIENA -OLD CITY
SIENA- A Medieval Town – 13th century Siena is about 78 kilometres from Florence and about 231 km from Rome. It is situated on three hills. Its original character remains unspoiled and the city remains essentially a medieval town. The walls and ...
Bus ride to Tuscany
... photos we copied onto Pat's laptop. Three weeks into this trip, I have about 2500 photos. The ride wasn't bad and arriving into Siena seemed much more user-friendly than Rome. We got some great advice from our hotel and made our way down to il Campo ...
Tuscany!
... from all around Siena crowd into square, even camp out, to watch the race. The horses competing represent different towns within Siena. Then we went to the Duomo at Siena, which was like stepping in Alice in Wonderland. Every surface was ...
Gothic Siena.....
... . One with its Renaissance the other with its Gothic architecture. We are choosing to reserve our judgements until later. Siena is one of Italy's most enchanting cities with its medieval centre and its small puzzle of lanes & alleyways. The historic ...
Siena - La Dolce Vita
... . Il Campo is Siena's main square. It is where they hold an annual bareback horse race, the Palio, between Siena's district representatives. Somehow thousands of people fit here while horses and riders fly around underneath the Piazza's buildings and ...
Siena, Italy
Heading south towards Rome we stopped in Siena, Tuscany for a couple of days. Siena is another walled city dating back to the 13th century. However in reading some structures date as far back as ...
Day 39 - Lucca to Siena
Distance: 129.81 km Average speed: 15.3 km/h Moving time: 8h29min Total ascent height: 1613 m Very nice day in Tuscany passing by San Miniato, San Gimignano and Monteriggioni!!! Full story coming ...
Beautiful City in the Tuscan Hills
... , I wish we had stayed the weekend in Siena instead of Florence. Oh well, next time. Most people I spoke to about Siena said they thought, though beautiful, it is rather boring. It's not. It's a gorgeous, if small city packed ...
Siena
We went to Siena today. A medieval city that hasn't really sold out to tourism. The city was competitve with Florence until the black plague struck, and took their population down from 70,000 to 30,000. A lot of great public squares and a cathedral ...
It's All Black and White!
... ), fountains, and churches, of which, the incredible black and white marble cathedral, is most famous. While staying at the Siena hostel, we met a fascinating young man from London, England, (via Kelowna, Canada), who had just graduated with a degree in ...
Bigger than I thought....
... , Michelangelo, Botticelli, Rustici, etc., etc., it became the spark that lit humanity’s way out of the dark ages. On to Siena, a much smaller town in the hills of Tuscany. At one point, Sienna was a direct rival of Florence, until the ...
Day Four: Changing towns, Duomo 2: Siena's Duomo..
... . The view is amazing though. I have a view of the Duomo and it's in the center of town. Sights... I saw the Siena Duomo first because it's the first thing I ran into on my way to the Plaza Il Campo. Ok, not really. ...
Siena, Italy
Sunday August 15, 2010 Senne's Summary: Travelled to Siena. We love it! This morning we packed up and left our least favourite apartment so far. The sun is shining and we arrive at the bus station at 8:30 for our 9:10 bus. (No reservations, and we were ...
Siena Siesta
... unclear. Luckily we attached ourselves to a tour group and made it to Florence with no problems. A side note about Siena. Throughout Italy the locals have generally dressed well. It was expected in Rome where business folks are flying everywhere, but ...
Siena -- Allegory of Good & Bad Government
... market we were looking for. Afterwards we had lunch and then stopped in at the Museo Civico. They say of Siena's art collections that they are "second-rate works by first-rate artists." The conspicuous exception, and the finest work ...
Ooohhh Sienaaaa!!!
... pizza You wanna stay in bed, watch MTV but you can't cos it's too hot!! Anyway we have been wandering again and found that Siena is a gorgeous little place with one of the most beautiful squares in the world - the Ill Campo. We have sat here for ...
Siena, Italy
... station. A train for Siena is just about to leave... and get right on it, and it leaves about 2 mins later! Sweet! Get to Siena...Smells like Big Thunder Mountain. It's misting out. Not raining, just sorta spitting. Hop in ANOTHER cab, and get to the ...
May 13-14: Siena
... ...after i had emailed a response to mom asking if the male attentions were making it tuff or what was it....and my response: Italy.....its not the male attention as it is not that horrible and aggressive...thus far...haha....what i think it is is that ...
Sinus Pains in Siena
... flaired severely and I canāt smell the nose of the wine like I used to...but it still has the desired effect. Florence and Siena were great but now Iām going to venture into uncharted waters to the east. Croatia is next on my list...maybe Montenegro ...
Siena serenity
Fortezza walk ( awalk on the walls of the fortress here dating from 14th Century) with Saturday night debris of bottles and wrappers left over. Police in attendance over a chunk of fortress wall falling . How many levels of Police are there ...
Palio Day!
... Lots of fruit, bread, pastries, cereal, yoghurt, juice and even bottled water! We went for a walk and came across the Siena Cathedral this morning. It never ceases to amaze me how beautiful the cathedrals are. They started building this one in the late ...
Day Eighteen - Siena, home of the Palio
... a year). I thought they had a big betting thing going on with this but they don't, the winner really only gets a scarf. The Siena Cathedral is stunning. Definitely different than Rome. The streets were small and shops were nice. We had some ice cream then ...