Cultural site in Siena

Beaches, temples, waterfalls, viewpoints and markets — the things worth building days around. Nothing here is booked on this page: each one says what it is and how long people spend there, then points at the stays and tours in the same area.

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Siena1

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Cultural site1

SienaCultural site

Palazzo Pubblico

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.

About 1 hour

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The rest of the guides, and the catalogue behind them.

Where to stay in ItalyTwenty-two areas, who each suits, and how many to fit in.Best time to visitMonth by month — heat, crowds, prices and what closes.Knowing the formCoffee, churches, tipping and the small courtesies.Trip ideasReady-made routes you can hand straight to the planner.

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