Siena offers the sunny disposition of a Gothic brick-built hill town to contrast with Florence’s stately Renaissance marble. As a thriving medieval merchant and textile town, Siena produced a colourful, courtly Gothic school of painting as well as a building boom, but it all came to a crashing halt when the Black Death of 1348 decimated the population. Florence would forever dominate the Tuscan scene thereafter, but luckily for visitors this means that, aside from a few Baroque church façades, second-fiddle Siena didn’t have the funds to overhaul its Middle Ages look.
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A pretty Hotel in large grounds situated only 10 minutes walk from the walled centre of the town. Despite its proximity it is very quiet and has a high level of service for a very reasonable price.
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This is a magnificent event to witness. The fervour and excitement, the anguish and the glory of the crowd on the four days of the event in July and August make you become part of the Italian people for that short time. You will have to allow a lot of time for waiting around but it is well worth it in the end.
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