The real Siena
About 1,900 buildings from OpenStreetMap, a small first piece of the centre, with the Duomo and the Torre del Mangia at their real height. More of the city comes later.
Instant Siena BETA
Explore or race by bike, on foot or on horseback through Siena, round the Piazza del Campo!
The centre of Siena in 3D, on its three hills in Tuscany: the Piazza del Campo, the Torre del Mangia, the striped cathedral and the brick lanes of the contrade, every building from OpenStreetMap.
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What there is to do
The Campo and the Duomo
The shell of red brick below the Palazzo Pubblico and the Fonte Gaia, the Loggia della Mercanzia, the striped cathedral with Santa Maria della Scala, and San Domenico across the valley.
A race: Campo and Duomo
Down Banchi di Sopra to the Loggia della Mercanzia, into the Campo below the Torre del Mangia, up the Casato to the Duomo and back past the Baptistery along Via delle Terme.
This is Siena
Siena lies on three hills in the middle of Tuscany, between the vineyards of Chianti and the bare clay hills of the Crete Senesi. For three centuries it was a free republic, a banking town that rivalled Florence, and it has kept its Gothic centre of brick almost as it was in the 14th century, round the shell of the Piazza del Campo. Twice every summer its seventeen contrade race the Palio there.
- The Piazza del Campo, the shell-shaped square at its heart
- The Palio, the horse race round the Campo on 2 July and 16 August
- The Torre del Mangia and the Palazzo Pubblico, with Lorenzetti’s frescoes of good and bad government
- The striped cathedral with its floor of marble pictures
- The Monte dei Paschi, the oldest bank in the world still in business
- Panforte and ricciarelli
Places, elements and landmarks
Piazza del CampoThe shell-shaped square at the heart of Siena, paved in red brick and sloping down to the town hall, where the Palio is run.
Palazzo PubblicoSiena’s Gothic town hall of brick and stone at the foot of the Campo, with the most famous frescoes of good and bad government.
Torre del MangiaThe slender brick tower of the town hall, 88 metres tall, with the stone crown of its bell chamber over the Campo.
Fonte GaiaThe marble fountain at the top of the Campo, where the water of Siena’s underground aqueducts first reached the square.
Duomo di SienaThe cathedral on the highest hill of the town, striped in white and dark green marble, with a floor of inlaid marble pictures.
FacciatoneThe bare front of the vast new cathedral that Siena began in 1339 and gave up after the Black Death.
Santa Maria della ScalaOne of the oldest hospitals of Europe, opposite the cathedral, which looked after pilgrims and foundlings for nearly a thousand years.
Loggia della MercanziaThe 15th-century loggia of the merchants’ court, at the crossing where Siena’s three main streets meet above the Campo.
Piazza SalimbeniThe small square of the palaces of the Monte dei Paschi, the oldest bank in the world still in business.
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