So I went to Sienna and the small medieval city of San Gimingano
yesterday...
We spend the majority of the day in Sienna, seeing the Campo- big
square- the Town Hall where we heard a lecture about a controversy
over some frescoes, the Duomo of Sienna and its Opera Del Duomo
museum- works of the cathedral...
Sienna was awesome- it is a cleaner, prettier, version of Florence
with wider streets in some parts- truly a pretty place. If i came
back to Italy, I would put Sienna on the top of my list of places to
go (so far!)...
I would also put San Gimignano on a list of places to go back to- it
is a VERY small medieval city that is called the 'manhattan' of
Italy, because it used to have 76 Medieval towers built in the 13th
century, however only about 4 survive. They had some fabulous white
wine- the name of i dont remember, but Saci bought us some to do a
wine tasting, with peccorino (sheep cheese- that you find all over
italy) and with some boar salami- which is FANTASTIC.
Here are some photos to get the sense of just how amazing these
places were... check out my picasa site for the extent of all the
photos.
Sienna:
1 comment:
Hello traveler,
Medieval towers, narrow, stone streets, olive trees and vino blanco. Looks so wonderful. Summer
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