Where there is this beautiful church of Santa Maria di Provenzano in Mannerist style were the houses of Provenzano Salvani, Sienese captain of the Ghibelline part, repeatedly mentioned by Dante Alighieri. On the façade of one of these houses there […]
Until 1460, the area around the church of San Francesco was outside the city’s walls. Then Pope Pius II, whose parents were buried in the church, insisted that San Francesco be included inside the defensive walls that we see today. The church […]
The Church of S. Domenico is a magnificent Gothic building, begun in 1226 and enlarged in the 14th century and completed in 1465. The chapel of St. Catherine of Siena, where the skull of these saints is worshiped, stands out […]
This rectangular Piazza is formed by three buildings and has in its center the statue of the archdeacon Sallustio Bandini, champion of economic freedom, who died in 1780. It is the work of the Sienese sculptor Tito Sarocchi who made it in […]
Palazzo Tolomei is a good example of a private residence of the second half of the 13th century and is characterised by two orders of elaborate double-lighted windows overlooking a massive wide portal in the center. The sad fortunes of Pia […]