Places to see in ( Siena - Italy )
Places to see in ( Siena - Italy )
Siena, a city in central Italy’s Tuscany region, is distinguished by its medieval brick buildings. The fan-shaped central square, Piazza del Campo, is the site of the Palazzo Pubblico, the Gothic town hall, and Torre del Mangia, a slender 14th-century tower with sweeping views from its distinctive white crown. The city’s 17 historic “contrade” (districts) extend outward from the piazza.
Siena is a city in Tuscany, Italy. Siena is the capital of the province of Siena. The historic centre of Siena has been declared by UNESCO a World Heritage Site. Siena is famous for its cuisine, art, museums, medieval cityscape and the Palio, a horse race held twice a year.
Siena is located in the central part of Tuscany, in the middle of a vast hilly landscape between the Arbia river valley (south), the Merse valley (south-west), the Elsa valley (north), the Chianti hills (north-east), the Montagnola Senese (west) and the Crete Senesi (south-east). The city lies at 322 m above sea level. The nearest international airports to Siena are Peretola Airport in Florence and Galileo Galilei International Airport in Pisa. There are two to three buses daily (Sena line) between Siena and Bologna Airport as well. Siena can be reached by train from both Pisa and Florence, changing at Empoli. Siena railway station is located at the bottom of a long hill outside the city walls. A series of escalators connects the train station with the old city on top of hill.
Alot to see in ( Siena - Italy ) such as :
Piazza del Campo
Torre del Mangia
Siena Cathedral
Palazzo Pubblico
Basilica of San Domenico, Siena
Museo dell'Opera del Duomo
Pinacoteca Nazionale
Basilica of San Francesco
Santa Maria dei Servi
Palazzo Salimbeni, Siena
Loggia del Papa, Siena
San Martino
Basilica dell'Osservanza
Orto Botanico dell'Università di Siena
Santo Spirito
Stadio Artemio Franchi – Montepaschi Arena
Civic Museum , Siena
Fortezza Medicea
Fonte Gaia
Siena Baptistery of San Giovanni
Santa Caterina
Fontebranda, Siena
Il Palio
Biblioteca Piccolomini
Palazzo Tolomei, Siena
Crypte du Duomo
Piazza Salimbeni, Siena
Loggia della Mercanzia
Fondazione Musei Senesi
Facciatone
Oratorio di San Bernardino e Museo Diocesano
Sant'Agostino
Porta dei Pìspini, Siena
Porta San Marco
Ovile Gate
Palazzo Sansedoni, Siena
Santa Maria in Provenzano, Siena
Porta Tufi, Siena
Cappella di Piazza
Porta Romana, Siena
Archeologico Nazionale di Siena
Palazzo Spannocchi, Siena
San Cristoforo, Siena
Palazzo del Magnifico
Museo della Tortura di Siena
Fonte Nuova D'Ovile
Siena Tourist Information Office
Contrada della Civetta
Bambimus - Museo D'arte Per Bambini
Palazzo del Capitano del Popolo, Siena
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One Day in Siena HD by Agriturismo Marciano
One Day in Siena HD by Agriturismo Marciano - Nikon D90 HD Video : The Mangia Tower of Siena, The Chapel of Piazza del Campo Siena, The Cathedral, Il Facciatone, Palazzo Sansedoni, The Bell Tower, Palazzo Chigi Saracini, Palazzo Pubblico, Fonte Gaia, Siena, Piazza dei Salimbeni, Siena, Toscana, Italia, Sienna, Tuscany, Italy
Museo Palazzo Sansedoni
La fabbrica ancora è un pezzo avanti, essendo quasi terminata l’ultima finestra, onde non vi rimane che alzare pochi tetti, e fare la metà dei merli sicché crederei che con il presente mese dovesse ancora terminare la fabbrica della facciata, quale riscuote il giusto plauso, e voi vi avrete più soddisfazione di tutti di casa perchè la vedrete tutta a un tratto, e vi farà più colpo che a noi che l’abbiamo veduta nascere a poco a poco. (Francesco Sansedoni 1759).
Palazzo Sansedoni Museum
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Siena (Tuscany - Italy)
Siena città d’arte, città colta, città della buona tavola, città del Palio. Tanti sono i suoi volti, unica la città.
Adagiata tra le colline toscane mantiene ancora inalterato il suo aspetto e il tempo a Siena pare essersi fermato al Duecento, quando la città cominciò ad arricchirsi di un patrimonio artistico e architettonico che ne ha consacrato per sempre la gloria.
L'Unesco ha iscritto Siena nella world heritage list nel 1995, per aver sapientemente conservato importanti caratteristiche della sua struttura medievale, definendola “un capolavoro di dedizione e inventiva in cui gli edifici sono stati disegnati per essere adattati all'intero disegno della struttura urbana”.
Saena Julia, è il nome che l'imperatore Augusto diede a Siena quando venne fondata come colonia romana, ma già prima dei romani la città era un insediamento etrusco.
Fatto singolare la città visse il suo periodo migliore durante i turbolenti anni delle guerre con la vicina Firenze; fu in questo periodo infatti che molti grandi artisti ebbero l’occasione di esprimere la loro arte. Nomi come Duccio di Boninsegna, Simone Martini e i fratelli Lorenzetti, i grandi maestri della scuola senese per citarne alcuni.
Sempre in questo periodo la città venne adornata da meravigliosi monumenti, come il Duomo, il Palazzo Pubblico e la Torre del Mangia.
Dietro la realizzazione di molti di questi lavori, c'era il Governo dei Nove, una delle principali magistrature della Repubblica senese, particolarmente attiva e feconda verso la metà del tredicesimo secolo; il governo cadde dopo l’epidemia di peste che si abbatté sulla città nel 1348, uccidendo i tre quinti della popolazione.
Per descrivere Siena è d’obbligo partire dalla sua piazza principale, Piazza del Campo, la stessa dove si svolge il Palio, la stessa ricca di ristoranti e bar, la stessa in cui i turisti e gli abitanti si soffermano estasiati a testa in su per ammirare i monumenti circostanti.
Ha una caratteristica forma trapezoidale ed è leggermente in discesa verso il centro, dove si trova la fonte Gaia, copia dell’opera quattrocentesca di Jacopo della Quercia.
Tutt’intorno la piazza, monumentali edifici come Palazzo Sansedoni ed il Palazzo Pubblico. A guardare la piazza dall’alto dei suoi 102 metri è la Torre del Mangia che risale agli anni Quaranta del XIV secolo; la sua altezza è pari a quella del campanile del Duomo a simboleggiare l'equilibrio raggiunto tra il potere divino e quello terreno. Ai piedi della torre sorge la Cappella di Piazza, un tabernacolo marmoreo con splendide sculture inserite nelle nicchie gotiche. Tutto nella stessa piazza.
Ma Siena non è solo Piazza del Campo: tutt’attorno è un susseguirsi di Chiese, come le splendide San Domenico e Santa Maria dei Servi, di piccole stradine piene di negozi e botteghe in cui si possono comperare prodotti dell'artigianato locale o assaggiare i mitici cantucci accompagnati da un bicchiere di Vin Santo.
Tra le strette vie e l’ampia Piazza del Campo si respira la vera atmosfera di Siena, una città giovane eppure antichissima, monumentale eppur vivace.
Siena e il Palio
La passione dei senesi per il Palio è qualcosa che trascende la semplice competizione sportiva; si tratta di un appuntamento così strettamente connaturato alla vita cittadina che resta difficile afferrarne l’importanza per chi non è nato nella cittadina toscana.
Il territorio della Città è diviso in 17 contrade, di queste solo dieci partecipano alla corsa del Palio con un cavallo che viene loro assegnato per estrazione. Prima del palio si assiste ad un corteo (Passeggiata Storica) a cui partecipano oltre 600 figuranti in costume. Il Palio, che consiste nel percorrere per tre volte il giro della Piazza del Campo montando a pelo (senza sella) il cavallo, si svolge il 2 luglio ed il 16 agosto di ogni anno.
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Siena's Piazza del Campo:
Piazza del Campo is the principal public space of the historic center of Siena, Tuscany, Italy and is regarded as one of Europe's greatest medieval squares. It is renowned worldwide for its beauty and architectural integrity. The Palazzo Pubblico and its Torre del Mangia, as well as various palazzi signorili surround the shell-shaped piazza. At the northwest edge is the Fonte Gaia.
The twice-a-year horse-race, Palio di Siena, is held around the edges of the piazza.
The open site was a marketplace established before the thirteenth century on a sloping site near the meeting point of the three hillside communities that coalesced to form Siena: the Castellare, the San Martino and the Camollia. Siena may have had earlier Etruscan settlements, but it was not a considerable Roman settlement, and the campo does not lie on the site of a Roman forum, as is sometimes suggested. It was paved in 1349 in fishbone-patterned red brick with ten lines of travertine, which divide the piazza into nine sections, radiating from the mouth of the gavinone (the central water drain) in front of the Palazzo Pubblico. The number of divisions is held to be symbolic of the rule of The Nine (Noveschi) who laid out the campo and governed Siena at the height of its mediaeval splendour between 1292-1355. The Campo was and remains the focal point of public life in the City. From the piazza, eleven narrow shaded streets radiate into the city.
The palazzi signorili that line the square, housing the families of the Sansedoni, the Piccolomini and the Saracini etc., have unified rooflines, in contrast to earlier tower houses — emblems of communal strife — such as may still be seen not far from Siena at San Gimignano. In the statutes of Siena, civic and architectural decorum was ordered :...it responds to the beauty of the city of Siena and to the satisfaction of almost all people of the same city that any edifices that are to be made anew anywhere along the public thoroughfares...proceed in line with the existent buildings and one building not stand out beyond another, but they shall be disposed and arranged equally so as to be of the greatest beauty for the city.
The unity of these Late Gothic houses is effected in part by the uniformity of the bricks of which their walls are built: brick-making was a monopoly of the commune, which saw to it that standards were maintained. (Ingersoll)At the foot of the Palazzo Pubblico's wall is the late Gothic Chapel of the Virgin built as an ex voto by the Sienese, after the terrible Black Death of 1348 had ended.
Fonte Gaia:
The Fonte Gaia (Fountain of Joy) was built in 1419 as an endpoint of the system of conduits bringing water to the city's centre, replacing an earlier fountain completed about 1342 when the water conduits were completed. Under the direction of the Committee of Nine, many miles of tunnels were constructed to bring water in aqueducts to fountains and thence to drain to the surrounding fields. The present fountain, a center of attraction for the many tourists, is in the shape of a rectangular basin that is adorned on three sides with many bas-reliefs with the Madonna surrounded by the Classical and the Christian Virtues, emblematic of Good Government under the patronage of the Madonna.[2] The white marble Fonte Gaia was originally designed and built by Jacopo della Quercia, whose bas-reliefs from the basin's sides are conserved in the Ospedale di St. Maria della Scala in Piazza Duomo. The former sculptures were replaced in 1866 by free copies by Tito Sarrocchi, who omitted Jacopo della Quercia's two nude statues of Rhea Silvia and Acca Larentia, which the nineteenth-century city fathers found too pagan or too nude. When they were set up in 1419, Jacopo della Quercia's nude figures were the first two female nudes, who were neither Eve nor a repentant saint, to stand in a public place since Antiquity.Wikipedia
Notice: (July 2 / Siene Palio) pictures around Piazza del Campo copied from wikipedia and other sites.
UNA PASSEGGIATA ATTRAVERSO PALAZZO SANSEDONI di AZZURRINI F., BANCHI A., KANDAKOV F.
Un video realizzato dagli studenti Filippo Azzurrini, Alessandro Banchi e Fabio Kandakov della IV classe Grafica dell’Istituto di Istruzione Superiore S. Bandini di Siena, che hanno partecipato al Concorso “Disegna il Palazzo con noi”(anno scolastico 2017/2018).
Piazza del Campo Siena
The famous public square in the heart of Siena is Piazza Del Campo. There are 10 different entrances to the piazza: the alleys and staircases and ramps and little lanes and several of those alleys are a good place to get a quick bite to eat as you're entering the Campo even though the company was a little hidden from view from the main pedestrian lanes you'll find that it's very easy to gain access nearly 500 feet wide and surrounded by shops restaurants in the towering Palazzo politico this is the very heart of town. Il Campo symbolizes the government in various ways -- one message the leaders proclaim with his large square was that they would rule the city properly and were therefore not worried about a revolution nor a gathering of large groups of people. The piazza’s divided by brick lines into sections that represent the governing Council of Nine at the time it was paved in 1349, which some people feel today that was the best government they ever had. Nine merchants and bankers ruled desiring to make themselves and everyone else rich and with the theme that all were welcome to participate the Council of nine presented a very new kind of democratic message for the Middle Ages at work so well that Siena became one of the richest cities in Europe. Like most of the rest of town the surface here is slanted along the slope of the hill adding an unusual dimension to this beautiful gathering place. Piazza Del Campo was and remains today the principal public space of the historic center and is regarded as one of Europe's greatest medieval squares it's renowned worldwide for its beauty and its architectural heritage. The Fonte Gaia, which means fountain of happiness was built in 1419 as an endpoint of the system of conduits bringing water into the city center. Construction of Palazzo Pubblico, or City Hall, began in the late 13th century in classic Sienese Gothic style, built of stone on the bottom level and brick on the upper floors, with crenellations, turrets and the tall tower giving it the appearance of a fortified castle. Parts of the large structure still function as the City Hall today. If you just want a free, quick glimpse you are welcome to walk into the inner courtyard, no charge, surrounded by an impressive arcade with colorful coats of arms and offering a dramatic view up at the Mangia Tower, while other sections are open to the public as the Civic Museum. Twice a year the Campo becomes an arena for a wild, bareback horse race called the Palio, with 30,000 screaming spectators crammed into the center and 20,000 more fans standing all around the outside and looking down from the windows and balconies. These festivities every July 2 and August 16 have been going on for the past 800 years. The shape of the piazza has often been compared in shape to a horseshoe, a half-moon, a sea-shell, and an amphitheater, and yet it’s commonly called a square. The open site was a marketplace established before the 13th century on a sloping site near the meeting point of the three hillside communities that coalesce to form Siena: the Castellare, the San Martino and the Camollia. It's a great place to have an outdoor meal at one of the many sidewalk restaurants that are around it your eating here more for the ambience than for the quality of the food you probably find some better food at a better price in the little back streets away from the tourist area but you can't beat this location especially in the evening as will be showing you. The piazza’s lined by palaces formerly housing the noble families of old Siena: the Sansedoni, the Piccolomini, the Saracini and others all build to a fairly uniform height and appearance. Regarding the timing of your visit to Siena, you want to get here in the afternoon so you can walk around and enjoy the town, go into to the Cathedral, enjoy the late afternoon Passeggiata, the stroll on the main street, and then at twilight come into the Campo for dinner. You will find this experience of eating an evening meal at twilight, sunset on the Campo, is going to be one of the highlights of your trip, no question about it. Sit back and relax, enjoy the ambience, have a carafe of wine, have some antipasti, have some salad eat, a main course. Don't worry about the pricing or the quality – it's going to be fairly reasonable – and just enjoy this environment and experience. You will probably look back on that moment in future years as one of the highlights of all your travels. And then after dinner you can stroll back up the main street heading to the bus stop.
Prato & Siena, Italy (Simple Joy)
Prato & Siena, Italy (Simple Joy)
The second-largest city in Tuscany, after Florence, Prato has been a capital of the thriving Italian wool textile trade for nearly 500 years and is home to the Museo del Tessuto, a leading textiles museum; the Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, a modern art museum; and the behemoth Swabian-style castle built by Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, in the 13th century.
The history of Siena has been made on the Piazza del Campo. Here the Sienese organised their spectacular and terrible 'games', later replaced by the Palio, where they celebrated and played games of risk. Piazza del Campo is a unique place in the whole of the world, starting with the very particular conformation of the ground, which turns the square into a big concave shell. The paving is made of red bricks arranged in fishbone style, divided into a sunburst pattern by nine strips of travertine (in memory of the Government of the Nine, who ruled over the city from 1292 to 1355). The white marble of the Fonte Gaia stands out on the paving, it is the masterpiece of 1419 by Jacopo della Quercia, later replaced by a copy. There is also the Palazzo Comunale (town hall), unusually built on the lowest part of the square, and also the tall, slender Torre del Mangia that stands out against the sky (it reaches 102 metres including the lightning conductor). At the base of the Palazzo is the Chapel of the Virgin, or Chapel of the Square, constructed and voted for by the Sienese, after the end of the terrible plague of 1348. And surrounding the chapel are the elegant façades of the Palazzi Signorili, belonging to the wealthiest of families: the Sansedoni, the Piccolomini, and the Saracini.
La TV della Memoria (Palazzo Sansedoni) 25112016
Un programma a cura di Massimo Biliorsi e Senio Sensi.
Places to see in ( Siena - Italy ) Centro Storico di Siena
Places to see in ( Siena - Italy ) Centro Storico di Siena
Siena city of art, cultured city, city of good food, city of the Palio. Many are his faces, the city alone. Nestling in the Tuscan hills it still maintains its appearance and the time in Siena seems to have stopped at the thirteenth century, when the city began to enrich itself with an artistic and architectural heritage that has forever consecrated its glory.
UNESCO entered Siena in the world heritage list in 1995, for having wisely preserved important characteristics of its medieval structure, defining it as a masterpiece of dedication and inventiveness in which the buildings were designed to be adapted to the entire design of the urban structure
Made unique the city lived its best period during the turbulent years of the wars with neighboring Florence ; it was in this period in fact that many great artists had the opportunity to express their art. Names like Duccio di Boninsegna , Simone Martini and the Lorenzetti brothers , the great masters of the Sienese school to name a few.
Also in this period the city was adorned with marvelous monuments, such as the Duomo, the Palazzo Pubblico and the Torre del Mangia. Behind the realization of many of these works, there was the Government of the Nine , one of the main magistracies of the Sienese Republic, particularly active and fruitful towards the middle of the thirteenth century; the government fell after the plague epidemic that struck the city in 1348, killing three fifths of the population.
To describe Siena it is a must to start from its main square, Piazza del Campo , the same where the Palio takes place , the same rich in restaurants and bars, the same in which the tourists and the inhabitants pause ecstatically upside down for admire the surrounding monuments. It has a characteristic trapezoidal shape and is slightly downhill towards the center, where is the source Gaia , a copy of the fifteenth-century work of Jacopo della Quercia.
All around the square, monumental buildings like Palazzo Sansedoni and the Palazzo Pubblico . Looking at the square from the top of its 102 meters is the Torre del Mangia which dates back to the forties of the fourteenth century; its height is equal to that of the bell tower of the Duomo to symbolize the balance reached between the divine power and the earthly one. At the foot of the tower stands the Cappella di Piazza , a marble tabernacle with splendid sculptures inserted in the Gothic niches. All in the same square.
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Piazza del Campo is the principal public space of the historic center of Siena,Tuscany, Italy and is regarded as one of Europe's greatest medieval squares. It is renowned worldwide for its beauty and architectural integrity. The Palazzo Pubblico and its Torre del Mangia, as well as various palazzi signorilisurround the shell-shaped piazza. At the northwest edge is the Fonte Gaia. The twice-a-year horse-race, Palio di Siena, is held around the edges of the piazza. The open site was a marketplace established before the thirteenth century on a sloping site near the meeting point of the three hillside communities that coalesced to form Siena: the Castellare, the San Martino and the Camollia. Siena may have had earlier Etruscan settlements, but it was not a considerable Roman settlement, and the campo does not lie on the site of a Roman forum, as is sometimes suggested. It was paved in 1349 in fishbone-patterned red brick with ten lines of travertine, which divide the piazza into nine sections, radiating from the mouth of the gavinone (the central water drain) in front of the Palazzo Pubblico. The number of divisions is held to be symbolic of the rule of The Nine (Noveschi) who laid out the campo and governed Siena at the height of its mediaeval splendour between 1292-1355. The Campo was and remains the focal point of public life in the City. From the piazza, eleven narrow shaded streets radiate into the city. The palazzi signorili that line the square, housing the families of the Sansedoni, the Piccolomini and the Saracini etc., have unified rooflines, in contrast to earlier tower houses — emblems of communal strife — such as may still be seen not far from Siena at San Gimignano. In the statutes of Siena, civic and architectural decorum was ordered :...it responds to the beauty of the city of Siena and to the satisfaction of almost all people of the same city that any edifices that are to be made anew anywhere along the public thoroughfares proceed in line with the existent buildings and one building not stand out beyond another, but they shall be disposed and arranged equally so as to be of the greatest beauty for the city. The unity of these Late Gothic houses is effected in part by the uniformity of the bricks of which their walls are built: brick-making was a monopoly of the commune, which saw to it that standards were maintained. (Ingersoll) At the foot of the Palazzo Pubblico's wall is the late Gothic Chapel of the Virgin built as an ex voto by the Sienese, after the terrible Black Death of 1348 had ended. The Fonte Gaia (Fountain of Joy) was built in 1419 as an endpoint of the system of conduits bringing water to the city's centre, replacing an earlier fountain completed about 1342 when the water conduits were completed.
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Fonte Gaia ☺ - Un salto a Siena a Piazza del Campo!
Dicembre 2014 - Un salto a Siena a Piazza del Campo. Città rinomata in tutto il mondo per la sua bellezza! Come tutti sanno questa piazza è famosa per lo svolgimento del tradizionale Palio due volte l'anno!
In questo video riprendo a 360° gli edifici con i propri coronamenti merlati che sovrastano la Piazza. In ordine abbiamo la Loggia della Mercanzia, le Case De Metz, la Costarella dei Barbieri, Palazzo d'Elci, Palazzo comunale, la Torre del Mangia, Palazzo Chigi-Zondadari, Palazzo Sansedoni.
Sull'area come elencato svetta il Palazzo Comunale costruito tra il 1297 e il 1310. Da notare al centro della facciata spicca un grande disco che presenta il trigramma di Cristo ideato da san Bernardino da Siena. L'opera è Al centro della facciata un grande disco presenta il trigramma di Cristo, ideato da san Bernardino da Siena. L'opera è di Battista di Niccolò dipinta nel 1425.
Bellissima la torre campanaria detta del Mangia così chiamata dal soprannome di mangiaguadagni dato al suo primo custode Giovanni di Balduccio (o di Duccio), noto per apprezzare i piaceri del cibo e sperperare a tavola i propri guadagni. È tra le torri antiche e più alte d'Italia (102 metri fino al parafulmine). Costruita tra il 1325 e il 1348. I quattro angoli sono perfettamente orientati in direzione N-S ed E-O.
All'inizio del video come non citare la bellissima Fonte Gaia Inaugurata nel 1386 per la gioia dei senesi che acquisirono la loro prima fonte pubblica cittadina (da qui il nome Gaia), venne decorata tra il 1409 e il 1419 da statue e rilievi di Jacopo della Quercia, originale sintesi tra la tradizione gotica e innovazioni rinascimentali. I rilievi odierni sono copie ottocentesche.
Che bella la nostra Italia!!!
Piazza del Campo, Siena, Tuscany, Italy, Europe
Piazza del Campo is the principal public space of the historic center of Siena, Tuscany, Italy and is regarded as one of Europe's greatest medieval squares. It is renowned worldwide for its beauty and architectural integrity. The Palazzo Pubblico and its Torre del Mangia, as well as various palazzi signorili surround the shell-shaped piazza. At the northwest edge is the Fonte Gaia. The twice-a-year horse-race, Palio di Siena, is held around the edges of the piazza. The piazza is also the finish of the annual road cycling race Strade Bianche. The open site was a marketplace established before the thirteenth century on a sloping site near the meeting point of the three hillside communities that coalesced to form Siena: the Castellare, the San Martino and the Camollia. Siena may have had earlier Etruscan settlements, but it was not a considerable Roman settlement, and the campo does not lie on the site of a Roman forum, as is sometimes suggested. It was paved in 1349 in fishbone-patterned red brick with nine lines of travertine, which divide the piazza into ten sections, radiating from the mouth of the gavinone (the central water drain) in front of the Palazzo Pubblico. The number of divisions is held to be symbolic of the rule of The Nine (Noveschi) who laid out the campo and governed Siena at the height of its mediaeval splendour between 1292-1355. The Campo was and remains the focal point of public life in the City. From the piazza, eleven narrow shaded streets radiate into the city. The palazzi signorili that line the square, housing the families of the Sansedoni, the Piccolomini and the Saracini etc., have unified rooflines, in contrast to earlier tower houses emblems of communal strife such as may still be seen not far from Siena at San Gimignano. In the statutes of Siena, civic and architectural decorum was ordered :...it responds to the beauty of the city of Siena and to the satisfaction of almost all people of the same city that any edifices that are to be made anew anywhere along the public thoroughfares...proceed in line with the existent buildings and one building not stand out beyond another, but they shall be disposed and arranged equally so as to be of the greatest beauty for the city. The unity of these Late Gothic houses is effected in part by the uniformity of the bricks of which their walls are built: brick-making was a monopoly of the commune, which saw to it that standards were maintained. At the foot of the Palazzo Pubblico's wall is the late Gothic Chapel of the Virgin built as an ex voto by the Sienese, after the terrible Black Death of 1348 had ended. The Fonte Gaia (Fountain of the World) was built in 1419 as an endpoint of the system of conduits bringing water to the city's centre, replacing an earlier fountain completed about 1342 when the water conduits were completed. Under the direction of the Committee of Nine, many miles of tunnels were constructed to bring water in aqueducts to fountains and thence to drain to the surrounding fields. The present fountain, a center of attraction for the many tourists, is in the shape of a rectangular basin that is adorned on three sides with many bas-reliefs with the Madonna surrounded by the Classical and the Christian Virtues, emblematic of Good Government under the patronage of the Madonna. The white marble Fonte Gaia was originally designed and built by Jacopo della Quercia, whose bas-reliefs from the basin's sides are conserved in the Ospedale di St. Maria della Scala in Piazza Duomo. The former sculptures were replaced in 1866 by free copies by Tito Sarrocchi, who omitted Jacopo della Quercia's two nude statues of Rhea Silvia and Acca Larentia, which the nineteenth-century city fathers found too pagan or too nude. When they were set up in 1419, Jacopo della Quercia's nude figures were the first two female nudes, who were neither Eve nor a repentant saint, to stand in a public place since Antiquity.
Places to see in ( Siena - Italy ) Piazza del Campo
Places to see in ( Siena - Italy ) Piazza del Campo
Piazza del Campo is the principal public space of the historic center of Siena, Tuscany, Italy and is regarded as one of Europe's greatest medieval squares. It is renowned worldwide for its beauty and architectural integrity. The Palazzo Pubblico and its Torre del Mangia, as well as various palazzi signorili surround the shell-shaped piazza. At the northwest edge is the Fonte Gaia. The twice-a-year horse-race, Palio di Siena, is held around the edges of the piazza.
The open site was a marketplace established before the thirteenth century on a sloping site near the meeting point of the three hillside communities that coalesced to form Siena: the Castellare, the San Martino and the Camollia. Siena may have had earlier Etruscan settlements, but it was not a considerable Roman settlement, and the campo does not lie on the site of a Roman forum, as is sometimes suggested. It was paved in 1349 in fishbone-patterned red brick with nine lines of travertine, which divide the piazza into ten sections, radiating from the mouth of the gavinone (the central water drain) in front of the Palazzo Pubblico. The number of divisions is held to be symbolic of the rule of The Nine (Noveschi) who laid out the campo and governed Siena at the height of its mediaeval splendour between 1292-1355. The Campo was and remains the focal point of public life in the City. From the piazza, eleven narrow shaded streets radiate into the city.
The palazzi signorili that line the square, housing the families of the Sansedoni, the Piccolomini and the Saracini etc., have unified rooflines, in contrast to earlier tower houses — emblems of communal strife — such as may still be seen not far from Siena at San Gimignano. In the statutes of Siena, civic and architectural decorum was ordered :...it responds to the beauty of the city of Siena and to the satisfaction of almost all people of the same city that any edifices that are to be made anew anywhere along the public thoroughfares...proceed in line with the existent buildings and one building not stand out beyond another, but they shall be disposed and arranged equally so as to be of the greatest beauty for the city.
The unity of these Late Gothic houses is effected in part by the uniformity of the bricks of which their walls are built: brick-making was a monopoly of the commune, which saw to it that standards were maintained. At the foot of the Palazzo Pubblico's wall is the late Gothic Chapel of the Virgin built as an ex voto by the Sienese, after the terrible Black Death of 1348 had ended.
The Fonte Gaia (Fountain of the World) was built in 1419 as an endpoint of the system of conduits bringing water to the city's centre, replacing an earlier fountain completed about 1342 when the water conduits were completed. Under the direction of the Committee of Nine, many miles of tunnels were constructed to bring water in aqueducts to fountains and thence to drain to the surrounding fields. The present fountain, a center of attraction for the many tourists, is in the shape of a rectangular basin that is adorned on three sides with many bas-reliefs with the Madonna surrounded by the Classical and the Christian Virtues, emblematic of Good Government under the patronage of the Madonna.
The white marble Fonte Gaia was originally designed and built by Jacopo della Quercia, whose bas-reliefs from the basin's sides are conserved in the Ospedale di St. Maria della Scala in Piazza Duomo. The former sculptures were replaced in 1866 by free copies by Tito Sarrocchi, who omitted Jacopo della Quercia's two nude statues of Rhea Silvia and Acca Larentia, which the nineteenth-century city fathers found too pagan or too nude. When they were set up in 1419, Jacopo della Quercia's nude figures were the first two female nudes, who were neither Eve nor a repentant saint, to stand in a public place since Antiquity.
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Salita sulla Torre del Mangia a Siena fra le rondini
Direttamente da Piazza del Campo a Siena, per la gioia mia e dei miei followers, posto per voi il bellissimo panorama a 360° che si scorge dalla Torre del Mangia!
A partire dal Duomo con il suo Facciatone, è facile riconoscere la Basilica di San Domenico, sotto nella piazza Fonte Gaia, Palazzo Sansedoni, la Collegiata di Santa Maria in Provenzano, la Basilica di San Francesco, la Chiesa di San Martino, la Chiesa di Santa Maria dei Servi, Piazza del Mercato e in lontananza il Monte Amiata.
La particolarità di questa visita è stata la presenza incontrastata delle rondini, che con il loro delizioso volteggiare, ci hanno accompagnato fin sulla sommità.
La Torre di Palazzo Pubblico, prende il nome dal campanaro Giovanni di Balduccio, noto in città per essere un grande scialacquatore di denaro che gli valse l'appellativo di Mangiaguadagni o più semplicemente Mangia.
Secondo le cronache medievali, le sue fondamenta sarebbero state gettate nell'autunno del 1325, anche se le fonti documentarie attestano che i primi pagamenti furono elargiti a partire dal 1338.
Alla sommità si accede senza ascensore salendo circa 400 gradini, entrando da Palazzo Pubblico.
La Torre ha una pianta quadrata di sette metri di lato e quasi due di spessore e si innalza fin quasi 87 metri sulla quota del Campo (102 metri fino al parafulmine).
La parte terminale è costituita da una doppia corona merlata, denominata rocca, realizzata in travertino e pietra scura a ricordo dei colori del Comune di Siena, il bianco e il nero. Alla costruzione della Torre hanno partecipato numerosi tecnici succedutesi negli anni. In particolare ricordiamo lo scultore e architetto senese Agostino di GiIovanni e i fratelli perugini Minuccio e Francesco di Rinaldo, che dal 1341 al 345 ricevono frequenti pagamenti da parte del Comune per portare a termine i lavori.
La Torre è probabilmente completata già il 18 dicembre 1344, sebbene si siano documentati lavori fino al 1349, anno in cui venne installata una grande campana, il cui suono doveva essere avvertito nell'intera città. Dal 1360 il Comune decise di porvi un orologio sostituendo la battitura manuale, con quella meccanica. Il soprannome Mangia, attribuito al primo campanaro è trasferito d'ufficio all'automa in legno che con un martello in mano verso la fine del Trecento è issato in cima alla torre per battere le ore. Nel 1425 viene realizzato un nuovo automa in ottone, sostituito poi nel 1766 da uno in travertino (opera dello scultore fiorentino Angiolo BIni) rimosso dalla Torre nel 1780 ed oggi esposto nel Cortile del Podestà.
Dal 1666 troneggia sulla rocca una grande campana dal peso di 6764 Kg. Questa campana è denominata dai senesi Sunto dal nome della Beata Vergine Maria Assunta a cui è dedicata, o anche per la mole viene detta Campanone.
La sua inconfondibile sonorità grave e roca è dovuta ad una fenditura apertasi sul bordo inferiore nel 1831 e, ancora oggi, con i suoi rintocchi accompagna tutti i momenti più importanti della vita cittadina, soprattutto quelli legati al Palio di Siena.
Come si vede dal video, su questa Torre è possibile godere di un magnifico panorama della città e di tutto il territorio circostante!
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La Taverna del Capitano a Siena
La Taverna del Capitano si trova in Via del Capitano a Siena, la strada che porta verso il Duomo di Siena.
Situata in una delle parti più antiche della città, offre un menù tradizionale, gustoso e abbondante ed è un locale molto frequentato dai senesi ma anche dai visitatori che cercano un locale tipico dove mangiare e bere come una volta.
Niccolò Moretti e suo padre, due senesi doc, grandi amanti della città, del Palio e delle sue tradizioni hanno arredato il locale 12 anni fa con le foto di amici e amiche che hanno voluto lasciare un ricordo fotografico inerente alla vita cittadina nei giorni di festa.
Tanti piatti della tradizione e vino selezionato per un pranzo o una cena da ricordarsi a lungo.
Toscana -Siena- (Canon Legria HFG 10) HD
Siena città d’arte, città colta, città della buona tavola, città del Palio. Tanti sono i suoi volti, unica la città.
Adagiata tra le colline toscane mantiene ancora inalterato il suo aspetto e il tempo a Siena pare essersi fermato al Duecento, quando la città cominciò ad arricchirsi di un patrimonio artistico e architettonico che ne ha consacrato per sempre la gloria.
L'Unesco ha iscritto Siena come patrimonio dell'umanità nel 1995, per aver conservato importanti caratteristiche della sua struttura medievale.
. Porta Romana è una delle antiche porte nelle mura della città. Fu innalzata nel 1327-1328 da Agnolo di Ventura e Agostino di Giovanni, munita di merli e di un antemurale di difesa.
Nel 1417 venne commissionata a Taddeo di Bartolo la pittura che la doveva ornare con la raffigurazione della Vergine, al pari della altre porte cittadine, a impetrare la protezione divina sulla città. L'opera fu continuata nel Stefano di Giovanni detto il Sassetta e alla morte dell'artista, tre anni dopo, fu affidata a Sano di Pietro che la terminò finalmente nel 1466. La raffigurazione si stendeva con una Gloria di angeli nel sottarco e con l'Incoronazione della Vergine nell'arcone centrale; nel 1978 per l'avanzato degrado gli affreschi vennero staccati e trasferiti nella basilica di San Francesco.
.Per descrivere Siena è d’obbligo partire dalla sua piazza principale, Piazza del Campo, la stessa dove si svolge il Palio, la stessa in cui i turisti e gli abitanti si soffermano a testa in su per ammirare i monumenti circostanti.
Ha una caratteristica forma trapezoidale ed è leggermente in discesa verso il centro, dove si trova la fonte Gaia, copia dell’opera quattrocentesca di Jacopo della Quercia.
Tutt’intorno la piazza, monumentali edifici come Palazzo Sansedoni ed il Palazzo Pubblico. A guardare la piazza dall’alto dei suoi 102 metri è la Torre del Mangia che risale agli anni Quaranta del XIV secolo; la sua altezza è pari a quella del campanile del Duomo a simboleggiare l'equilibrio raggiunto tra il potere divino e quello terreno. Ai piedi della torre sorge la Cappella di Piazza, un tabernacolo marmoreo con splendide sculture inserite nelle nicchie .La cattedrale metropolitana di Santa Maria Assunta è il principale luogo di culto cattolico di Siena, in Toscana, sede vescovile dell'arcidiocesi metropolitana di Siena-Colle di Val d'Elsa-Montalcino; l'edificio è situato nell'omonima piazza, nel Terzo di Città.
Costruita in stile romano-gotico italiano, è una delle più significative chiese realizzate in questo stile in Italia.
Piazza del Campo in Siena on a Beautiful Sunday in October 2013
According to Wikipedia...
Piazza del Campo is the principal public space of the historic center of Siena, Tuscany, Italy and is regarded as one of Europe's greatest medieval squares. It is renowned worldwide for its beauty and architectural integrity. The Palazzo Pubblico and its Torre del Mangia, as well as various palazzi signorili surround the shell-shaped piazza. At the northwest edge is the Fonte Gaia.
The twice-a-year horse-race, Palio di Siena, is held around the edges of the piazza.
The open site was a marketplace established before the thirteenth century on a sloping site near the meeting point of the three hillside communities that coalesced to form Siena: the Castellare, the San Martino and the Camollia. Siena may have had earlier Etruscan settlements, but it was not a considerable Roman settlement, and the campo does not lie on the site of a Roman forum, as is sometimes suggested. It was paved in 1349 in fishbone-patterned red brick with ten lines of travertine, which divide the piazza into nine sections, radiating from the mouth of the gavinone (the central water drain) in front of the Palazzo Pubblico. The number of divisions are held to be symbolic of the rule of The Nine (Noveschi) who laid out the campo and governed Siena at the height of its mediaeval splendour between 1292-1355. It was and remains the focal point of public life in the City. From the piazza, eleven narrow shaded streets radiate into the city.
The palazzi signorili that line the square, housing the families of the Sansedoni, the Piccolomini and the Saracini etc., have unified rooflines, in contrast to earlier tower houses — emblems of communal strife — such as may still be seen not far from Siena at San Gimignano. In the statutes of Siena, civic and architectural decorum was ordered :...it responds to the beauty of the city of Siena and to the satisfaction of almost all people of the same city that any edifices that are to be made anew anywhere along the public thoroughfares...proceed in line with the existent buildings and one building not stand out beyond another, but they shall be disposed and arranged equally so as to be of the greatest beauty for the city.
The unity of these Late Gothic houses is effected in part by the uniformity of the bricks of which their walls are built: brick-making was a monopoly of the commune, which saw to it that standards were maintained. (Ingersoll)
At the foot of the Palazzo Pubblico's wall is the late Gothic Chapel of the Virgin built as an ex voto by the Sienese, after the terrible Black Death of 1348 had ended.
Ca'Palazzo - Marche - Italy
Ca'Palazzo is located in the most northern province of Le Marche, Pesaro / Urbino. In total there are 10 apartments of different sizes with a total of 16 individual bedrooms. For more info: capalazzo.com