The Piazza del Campo, Siena’s main square, is surely the most theatrical public space in the whole of Tuscany.

A century and a half before the Florentine flowering of Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, another Tuscan city wondrous for ...

Siena, a historic city in central Italy, is one of Tuscany’s most beautiful destinations, known for its stunning Piazza del Campo, Gothic cathedral, and famous Palio horse race. While its ...

The thing about Siena is that it had everything a city needed in the fourteenth century for greatness. It was wealthy: it was a banking and trade centre, which accounted for the lavish gold ...

Meanwhile, the poor received alms, and prayers were offered to the Virgin, the city’s patron saint, for protection “from every misfortune, traitor or enemy”. The mother of Christ had been held in ...