Tuscany
Siena
Siena is often reduced to the Palio and a beautiful square. This guide follows the machinery behind the beauty: republican government, public imagery, engineered water, charitable institutions, banking and religious prestige. The result is a city whose medieval form still reveals how a fiercely competitive republic organised itself.
Stories in Siena
- Piazza del Campo — A Republic Shapes Its Living Room
- Palazzo Pubblico — Painting Good Government
- Torre del Mangia — Civic Time Above the City
- Siena Cathedral — The Church That Tried to Become Much Bigger
- Santa Maria della Scala — Welfare Across from the Cathedral
- Fontebranda — The Water Beneath Siena
- Basilica of San Domenico — Catherine and the Making of a Civic Saint
- Palazzo Salimbeni — Banking Becomes an Institution