Tourist attractions Murlo

This museum will take you on a fabulous journey through four centuries of Siena painting, from the first Primitives, much marked by the priestly manner of the Byzantine style by Sodoma , grand master of Siena painting from the 16C and, even if the t..

This is one of the most attractive civil buildings in Italy. Its harmonious and light size is dominated by the elegant Mangia tower from which there is an admirable view over Siena and over the countryside. On a visit to the apartments you will see s..

This is one of the world’s most famous squares, composed of a series of monuments in unsurpassed harmony. This slightly sloping “shell” or “fan” in pink and white tones is a fine example of those “open-air drawing rooms” which are such a glory of Ita..

Begun in 1339, the original plan for this cathedral was vast but only free-standing pillars give an impression of how vast; the actual structure makes up but one transept of the original design. It is however magnificent; the façade, a harmony of mar..

The rose-coloured buildings of the mother-house of the Olivetians, a congegration founded in 1313, stands on a hillside among a landscape of cypress trees. Do not miss the great cloisters decorated with a series of frescoes by Luca Signorelli and..

Standing at the entrance to the town, the high walls and five polygonal towers of this 14C fortress are remarkably well preserved. A parapet walk offers strollers wide-reaching views of the city. The keep is no longer lodgings for officers and noblem..

On each side of the gallery of the museum, installed behind the walled arcades of what was to be a transept of the cathedral, are statues by Giovanni Pisano which once adorned the cathedral façade: prophets, wise men and the sibyl are depicted here w..

Both abbey and hermitage were founded by Galgano Guidotti from the nearby town of Chiusdino. San Galgano consists of the impressive, open-air ruins which are all that remain of the Romanesque-Gothic abbey built by Cistercian monks between 1224 and ..

In addition to the gold and silver ware and liturgical decorations from the Buonconvento and Val d'Arbia regions, the museum also exhibits and interesting group of paintings from the Sienna school from the 14-17C.

The Town Hall, which stands on the aptly named People's Square, consists of a 13C palace, surmounted by a belfry and flanked by a handsome 14C-15C arcaded loggia.

This attractive palace was built in the middle of the 15C in impressive red brick and brings to mind the People's Palace. It contains the fabulous art gallery of Siena.

Along with the Via Banchi di Sopra this is the main commercial street of old Siena. It is pedestrianised with flagstones and no pavements and is flanked by remarkable palaces and runs round the Piazza del Campo.

This very attractive street links the cathedral square with that of the Four Cantons and is decorated with the Chigi alla Postieria palace (16 C) and the palace of the Captain of Justice , dating from the end of the 13 C, an attractive, Gothic bui..

Flanked by the long facade de the hospital, by the neo-Gothic palace of the Archbishop and by the Prefecture, this square is dominated by the famous Cathedral which is adorned with two coloured marble stripes and which the people of Siena wished to..

Below the level of the cathedral, this dates from the start of the 14C and its white marble facade, in a Gothic style harsher even than the cathedral's, was never finished. Inside, the baptismal fonts made up of a hexagonal vessel adorned with bron..

Looking down from one side of the Piazza del Campo, on the other side on to the via Banchi di Sotto, this attractive Florentine style palace, which today contains the archives of Siena, was built by Bernardo Rossellino, the architect of the Ruccellai..

This is an extension of the Via di Citta and like it, it surrounds the palaces on the Piazza del Campo. There is the rear facade of the Piccolomini palace , in white stone, probably by the Florentine architect Bernardo Rosselino, which contains the ..

This entirely brick fountain is the oldest in the town and is architecturally interesting. It refreshed the locals right back in 1080 but it was in 1246 that it took on its present form so typical of Siena.

Its construction date (early 13C) makes this the oldest private palace in Siena. It has a stone façade, austere yet elegant with two storeys of twin Gothic windows over a ground floor of exceptional height. The King of Naples, Robert of Anjou, stayed..

St Catherine lived not far from here. This convent church was therefore the ideal place to have her ecstasies and quickly return home before the powerful and harsh setting could put her off. In the chapel "delle volte", above the altar, i..