The National Art Gallery of Siena is the state’s most important museum of the city, where there is a fundamental collection of works of the Sienese school. A travel destination in Italy not to be missed . The collection was inaugurated in 1932 and presents the paintings before preserved at the Academy of Fine Arts […]
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The Romanesque Collegiate Church of San Quirico d’Orcia today stands at the site of an eighth century baptistery. The oldest part of the church is the western facade that was built in the late twelfth century or early thirteenth century. The western façade is adorned with a large Romanesque portal. The door is surmounted by […]
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The Chapel of Our Lady of Vitaleta is a sacred building in the rural Vitaleta in the town of San Quirico d’Orcia, in the province of Siena. The church , probably from the late Renaissance , was mentioned for the first time in a 1590 document. Today, the Cappella della Madonna di Vitaleta is private […]
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The Cathedral of Pienza is located on the central Piazza Pio II, next to Palazzo Piccolomini in Pienza. The Cathedral of Pienza was built by Pope Pius II between 1459 and 1462, and was directed by Bernardo Rossellino during the renovation of the city. Despite being one of the most important monuments of the Italian […]
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Piccolomini Palace is located in the center of Pienza, near the Duomo of Pienza. The palace, also known as Palazzo Pontificio, was commissioned by Enea Piccolomini, Pope Pius II, to Bernardo Rossellini, in the project of the reconstruction of Pienza as an ideal city. Designed in the late fifteenth century (after 1459 ), for the […]
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