Siena

Siena is a city of 55 thousand¹ situated amongst hills between the headstreams of the Arbia River¹ in its own province, in the Toscana³ Region of Italia.⁴ Its walled historic center is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. This includes streets, plazas, fountains and their supporting structures, houses and public secular and religious buildings. The two most important buildings are the Palazzo Communale di Siena (also called the Palazzo Pubblico⁵) with its campanile tower, and the hill-crowning Duomo of Santa Maria,⁶ with exterior and interior work done by Giovanni and Nicolà Pisano.⁷

External references

Piazza del Campo (including the Palazzo Communale), Siena, Siena Province, Toscana, Italia

Footnotes

1. 2011 figure from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_in_Italy, accessed February 16, 2017.
2. The Arbia flows into the Ombrone, which flows into the Tyrrhenian Sea.
3. Tuscany in English.
4. Italy in English.
5. Either way it translates approximately into English as public palace.
6. Saint Mary in English. A duomo is a present or former cathedral.
7. Information about the historic center was condensed from UNESCO, World Heritage Sites (Firefly Books, 2010).