Siena and Val d' Orcia
	Siena Built at latin cruise in three navies, the Cathedral was redecorated with white and black marble flags in reference to balzana: the Siena’s symbol. It has a splendid façade in polychromatic marbles with a rich sculptural decoration. The tower bell is Romanic, in white and black flags and rises on an ancient tower.
	Piccolomini and Papesse Palace This was the accommodation for the noble Siena family, bank clerk from the Pope court that was between the most important and significant in the town since the XIIth. In the high part of Campo’s Square, you see the Gaia Source , realized by Jacopo della Quercia around the 1419, to remember the celebrations when the people from Siena saw arrive the water in that place for the first time. The work seems a big marble altar, with the Adam Creation and the Eden Expulsion’s under relieves, and the Virgin Mary with her baby surrounded by the Virtue’s Allegories. Campo’ square is between the most suggesting examples of civil architecture in the world; it ideally represents the meeting point of the three hills where rises the town. At the beginning it was a big grass, for this reason the name “campo”. From a semicircular shape the same of a shell’s valve ; every year the square is Palio’s location, on the 2nd of July and the 16th of August, the known horses’ run preceded by an historical procession.
Montalcino On the last hills degrading towards the Maremma rises Montalcino, from an ancient Etruscan origin, where you see few testifies. It offers its numerous typical products, as the doc wines between them the Brunello is the most known. Always in the quality tradition we can not forget the Honey’s harvest, that has an important role in the national landscape. In the town you live narrow streets’ views, stairs and churches, while from the ancient Fortress you open the look at the hills towards Siena and the Sea.
	Pienza Its name has been given by its important citizen Pio II Piccolomini, who wanted it had to be projected at the table from the most important fifteenth century architects as example of “Ideal Town”. In the main square you see the Cathedral and important public and private buildings, as the Piccolomini Palace, Ammannati Palace, Public Palace. In its churches you can admire Signorelli’s, Duccio Boninsegna’s and Vecchietta’s paintings. Exceptional and famous the Cacio Pecorino from Pienza that takes the dairy tradition of the farms and cottages from the Val d’Orcia.
	Castiglione d’Orcia It is a natural terrace on all the valley; its territory runs from the Valley till the Mount Amiata’s streams. You go from the ancient Towers dominating Castiglione and Rocca d’Orcia, till the Appennines, the Amiata Mountain, the Marenna and the sea. Castiglione d’Orcia has important quarters and rich in history and natural beauties as Campiglia, theVivo d’Orcia, and the important thermal station of San Filippo’s Baths. The history and the culture left important testifies, as the Lorenzetti’s,Simone Martini’s or Lorenzo di Pietro’s, called “the Vecchietta paintings.
The most famous local typical products are the Extra Virgin Olive Oil, the Cinta’s salamis and the Rosso doc’s wine.
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Creato il :2/17/2010