Siena Trip Overview
With our many years of experience in the area, we offer our customers a tour of these two towns that they represent, the emblem of true Tuscany.
We will be happy to recommend places to eat well and drink excellent wine.
Siena and San Gemignano speak for themselves, it is not easy to explain them in words but only by visiting these magical places, you will have the opportunity to understand why they are a must on the international tourism scene.
NOT TO BE MISSED.
Additional Info
Duration: 4 to 6 hours
Starts: Siena, Italy
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Literary, Art & Music Tours
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What to Expect When Visiting Siena, Tuscany, Italy
With our many years of experience in the area, we offer our customers a tour of these two towns that they represent, the emblem of true Tuscany.
We will be happy to recommend places to eat well and drink excellent wine.
Siena and San Gemignano speak for themselves, it is not easy to explain them in words but only by visiting these magical places, you will have the opportunity to understand why they are a must on the international tourism scene.
NOT TO BE MISSED.
Itinerary
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Stop At: Piazza san Domenico, Centro Storico, 53100, Siena Italy
The Basilica of San Domenico is one of the most important churches in Siena, it contains the relic of Saint Catherine of Siena, patron saint of Italy and Europe, within a splendid Renaissance chapel built for the occasion and frescoed by Sodoma and others. The church is also called the caterinian basilica due to its connection with the Sienese saint and some episodes of his life.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Piazza del Campo, 53100, Siena Italy
Unique for its particular and original shell shape, it is renowned throughout the world for its beauty and architectural integrity, as well as for being the place where the Palio di Siena takes place twice a year. The shape of the square is emiciclica, resembling a valve of an inclined shell towards noon, with nine segments defined by white bands on the terracotta flooring. Enclosed by the almost continuous curtain of buildings, eleven passages (once twelve) branch off, masked wisely by the use of the vaults and by the layered layout of the town.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Centro Storico di Siena, Piazza Del Campo, 53100, Siena Italy
The city is universally known for its huge historical, artistic, landscape heritage and for its substantial stylistic unity of medieval urban furniture, as well as for the famous Palio.
In 1995 its historic center was listed by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site.
Duration: 2 hours
Stop At: San Gimignano 1300, Via la Costarella n. 3, 53037, San Gimignano Italy
San Gimignano rises on a place certainly inhabited by the Etruscans, at least from the 3rd century BC The hill was chosen for strategic reasons, being dominant (324 m s.l.m.) in the upper Val d’Elsa.
In the Middle Ages the city was on one of the main roads of the Via Francigena, which Sigerico, Archbishop of Canterbury, traveled between 990 and 994 and which for him represented the 19th stage (Mansio) of his itinerary back from Rome to England .
Duration: 2 hours
Stop At: San Gimignano Bell Tower, Piazza del Duomo, 53037, San Gimignano Italy
an Gimignano is above all famous for the medieval towers that still stand out on its panorama, which have earned it the nickname of Manhattan of the Middle Ages. Of the 72 towers and tower-houses, existing in the golden age of the Municipality, twenty-five were left in 1580 and today fourteen remain, with other scapitozzate intra-visible in the urban fabric. The oldest is the Rognosa tower was built at the beginning of the thirteenth century. The highest is the Torre del Podestà, also called Torre Grossa, of 54 meters.
Duration: 30 minutes
