Palazzo Pubblico
Cultural siteSienaAbout 1 hour
The town hall on the Campo, holding Lorenzetti's Allegory of Good and Bad Government — a fourteenth-century fresco cycle about how to run a city, painted in the room where it was run. Unusually direct for medieval art and worth reading about beforehand. An hour.
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