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Things to do in Siena

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Siena is a city in the region of Tuscany in central Italy, and the capital of the province of Siena. With a population of 53,180, it is the 12th-largest city in the region.

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1. ⛪ place of worship
Siena Cathedral
Siena Cathedral (Italian: Duomo di Siena) is a medieval church in Siena, Italy, dedicated from its earliest days as a Roman Catholic Marian church, and now dedicated to the Assumption of Mary. Since its construction in the early 13th century, the cathedral has been central to Sienese identity. The cathedral complex was continuously expanded from its earliest days until the Black Death halted construction in 1348. (Wikipedia)

👑 Palaces in Siena

Palazzo Chigi-Saracini

The Palazzo Chigi-Saracini is a Gothic urban palace on the Via di Città in the Terzo di Città in central Siena, Tuscany, Italy. (Wikipedia)

Palazzo Salimbeni

Palazzo Salimbeni is a Gothic style urban palace located on the Piazza Salimbeni, just off Via Banchi di Sopra in the Terzo di Camollia of the city of Siena, region of Tuscany, Italy. (Wikipedia)

Palazzo Sansedoni, Siena

Palazzo Sansedoni is a Gothic style urban palace and tower, whose concave facade is situated facing the Palazzo Pubblico across the Piazza del Campo in the political center of the city of Siena, region of Tuscany, Italy. (Wikipedia)

Palazzo Piccolomini

The Palazzo Piccolomini, also known as the Palazzo Todeschini Piccolomini, is a Renaissance-style palace in the city of Siena, region of Tuscany, Italy. (Wikipedia)

Palazzo Spannocchi, Siena

The Palazzo Spannocchi is a Renaissance style urban palace located on the Piazza Salimbeni, just off Via Banchi di Sopra in the Terzo di Camollia of the city of Siena, region of Tuscany, Italy. (Wikipedia)

Palazzo Tolomei

The Palazzo Tolomei is an imposing, Gothic style urban palace, located on Via Banchi di Sopra in the present contrada of Civetta, Terzo di Camollia of the city of Siena, region of Tuscany, Italy. (Wikipedia)

Palazzo Tantucci, Siena

The Palazzo Tantucci is a Renaissance style (more specifically Mannerist) urban palace localized on Via dei Montanini, on the Piazza Salimbeni, in the Terzo di Camollia, in the city of Siena, region of Tuscany, Italy. (Wikipedia)

Palazzo delle Papesse

Building in Siena, Italy

Palazzo del Capitano del Popolo

The Palazzo del Capitano del Popolo is a 13th-century Gothic style, brick and stone, urban palace located on via del Capitano, #13-19 in the city of Siena, region of Tuscany, Italy. (Wikipedia)

Palazzo del Magnifico

Palazzo del Magnifico, also known as Palazzo Petrucci, built as the residence of Pandolfo Petrucci, is located in Siena on Piazza San Giovanni at the corner of Via dei Pellegrini. (Wikipedia)

Archbishop's Palace

The Palazzo Arcivescovile or Archbishop's Palace of Siena is the official residence of the archbishop and the offices of the Archdiocese of Siena-Colle di Val d'Elsa-Montalcino. (Wikipedia)

Palazzo Chigi alla Postierla

The Palazzo Chigi all Postierla, but sometimes referred also to as Chigi-Piccolomini or Piccolomini-Adami is a Renaissance style urban palace localized on Via del Capitano #1, corner Piazza Postierla, in the Terzo di Città, in the city of Siena, region of Tuscany, Italy. (Wikipedia)

Palazzo Reale

Building in Siena, Italy

Grand Hotel Continental

The Palazzo Gori Pannilini is a renaissance-style, located on via Banchi di sopra in the city of Siena, region of Tuscany, Italy. (Wikipedia)

Palazzo Francesconi-Mocenni

The Palazzo Francesconi, later Mocenni, is a 16th-century Renaissance urban palace in the Italian city of Siena, located on Piazza Gramsci, at the corner with Via del Cavallerizzo. (Wikipedia)

Palazzo Piccolomini-Clementini

The Palazzo Piccolomini-Clementini is a Gothic-style palace located on Via Banchi di Sotto #75 in the city of Siena, region of Tuscany, Italy. (Wikipedia)

Palazzo Venturi Gallerani, Siena

The Palazzo Venturi Gallerani is an 18th-century palace on via delle Cerchia #6, near the Pinacoteca Nazionale in Siena, Tuscany, Italy. (Wikipedia)

Palazzo dei Diavoli

The Palazzo Turchi, also called the Palazzo dei Diavoli, is a castle-like structure located outside the city wall of Siena, near Porta Camollia between Viale Cavour e via Fiorentina. (Wikipedia)

Villa Il Pavone

The Villa il Pavone is a neo-Renaissance style suburban palace located outside of the city of Siena, a region of Tuscany, Italy. (Wikipedia)

Palazzo Bindi Sergardi

The Palazzo Bindi Sergardi, previously Agostini and later Casini-Casuccini, is, from the outside, a non-descript urban building located on Via dei Pellegrini # 18 in central Siena, region of Tuscany, Italy. (Wikipedia)

Palazzo Buonsignori

Building in Siena, Italy

Palazzo Bichi Ruspoli, Siena

The Palazzo Bichi Ruspoli, or previously Palazzo or Castellare dei Rossi, is an urban palace, located on Via Banchi di Sopra in the present contrada of Civetta, Terzo di Camollia of the city of Siena, region of Tuscany, Italy. (Wikipedia)

Palazzo Celsi Pollini

The Palazzo Celsi Pollini, once also called the Palazzo del Vescovo, is a Renaissance style urban palace in Siena, Italy. (Wikipedia)

Palazzo San Galgano, Siena

The Palazzo San Galgano is a Renaissance style urban palace located on via Roma number 47, in Terzo Camollia of the city of Siena, region of Tuscany, Italy. (Wikipedia)

Palazzo Bardi alla Postierla

Building in Siena, Italy

Palazzo Borghesi

Palace in Siena, Quattro Cantoni (Terzo di Citta)

Palazzo Luti

Building in Siena

Palazzo Turamini

Building in Siena

Palazzo Petroni

Palace in Via di Pantaneto, Siena, Italy

⛪ Churches and places of worship in Siena

Basilica of St. Bernardine of Siena

The Basilica dell'Osservanza is a church on the outskirts of Siena, region of Tuscany, Italy. (Wikipedia)

Santa Maria dei Servi

The Church of Santa Maria dei Servi is a Romanesque style, Roman Catholic church in the Terzo of San Martino in the city of Siena, Tuscany, Italy. (Wikipedia)

Basilica of San Francesco

San Francesco is a basilica church in Siena, Tuscany, Italy. (Wikipedia)

Santuario di Santa Caterina

Sanctuary of Saint Catherine in Siena

Battistero di San Giovanni

The Battistero di San Giovanni (Italian: "Baptistry of St. (Wikipedia)

Sant'Agostino

Sant'Agostino is a Roman Catholic church in Siena, region of Tuscany, Italy. (Wikipedia)

San Martino

San Martino is a Roman Catholic church located on Via del Porrione, in the Terzo San Martino (named after this church) in central in Siena, region of Tuscany, Italy. (Wikipedia)

Santo Spirito

Santo Spirito is a Renaissance style, Roman Catholic church located in piazza Santo Spirito, where Via dei Pispini meets Vicolo del Sasso, in Siena, Italy. (Wikipedia)

Santa Maria di Provenzano

Santa Maria in Provenzano, or the Insigne Collegiata di Santa Maria in Provenzano, is a late-Renaissance-Baroque style, Roman Catholic, collegiate church in Piazza Provenzano Salvani, in the Terza Camollia, just southwest of the basilica of San Francesco, in the city of Siena, region of Tuscany, Italy. (Wikipedia)

Oratory of San Bernardino

The Oratory of the Compagnia di San Bernardino is an oratory in the Piazza San Francesco in Siena. (Wikipedia)

San Giuseppe Church

San Giuseppe is a Roman Catholic church in Siena, Tuscany, Italy. (Wikipedia)

San Giorgio

San Giorgio is a Baroque style, Roman Catholic church located on Via di Pantaneto #113 in the Terzo San Martino of the city of Siena, region of Tuscany, Italy. (Wikipedia)

San Niccolò al Carmine

San Niccolò al Carmine, also called Santa Maria del Carmine is a Renaissance style, Roman Catholic church and monastery located in Pian dei Mantellini #30, near the corner of Via della Diana in the Terzo de Citta of Siena, region of Tuscany, Italy. (Wikipedia)

Oratorio di San Rocco

The Oratory of San Rocco is a small Roman Catholic prayer hall or oratory, located on via Vallerozzi in Siena, region of Tuscany, Italy. (Wikipedia)

San Gaetano di Thiene

The narrow church or oratory of San Gaetano di Thiene is found in the middle of via dei Pispini in Siena, Italy. (Wikipedia)

Madonna del Rosario

The Chapel of the Madonna del Rosario is a small, Baroque style, originally Roman Catholic, but now deconsecrated oratory located between via San Marco and via della Diana in the contrada of the Chiocciola (snail), in the city of Siena, Tuscany, Italy. (Wikipedia)

Certosa di Pontignano

The Certosa di Pontignano (literally, 'Pontignano Charterhouse'), also known as the Certosa di San Pietro ('Saint Peter's Charterhouse'), is a Carthusian monastery and church in the neighborhood of Pontignano, within the town limits of Castelnuovo Berardenga, a few kilometers north of the city of Siena, in the region of Tuscany, Italy. (Wikipedia)

Santi Pietro e Paolo

The church of Santi Pietro e Paolo is a Baroque style, Roman Catholic church, located on Via San Marco in the contrada of Chiocciola, in the city of Siena, region of Tuscany, Italy. (Wikipedia)

Carceri di Sant'Ansano

The Church of the Jail of Sant'Ansano, Italian: Chiese delle Carceri di Sant'Ansano, also known as the Chapel or Oratory of Sant'Ansano in Castelvecchio, is a small, medieval, Roman Catholic religious building located on via Tommaso Pendola in the Terzo di Città of the city of Siena, region of Tuscany, Italy. (Wikipedia)

San Donato Church (Siena)

San Donato, also called San Michele al Monte di San Donato, is a Baroque style, Roman Catholic church located on the Piazza on Via dell'Abbadia, Siena, region of Tuscany, Italy. (Wikipedia)

San Giovannino della Staffa, Siena

San Giovannino della Staffa, also known as San Giovannino in Pantaneto, is a Renaissance style Roman Catholic church on Piazetta Virgilio Grassi, in the Contrada del Leocorno, Siena, Tuscany, Italy. (Wikipedia)

San Sebastiano in Vallepiatta

San Sebastiano in Vallepiatta is an ancient church next to Piazzeta della Selva in Siena, Italy. (Wikipedia)

Sant’Andrea Apostolo, Siena

Sant’Andrea Apostolo is a Roman Catholic church located on Via dei Montanini 141, near the intersection with Via Giuseppe Garibaldi, in the terzo of Camollia, in the city of Siena, region of Tuscany, Italy. (Wikipedia)

Santo Stefano alla Lizza

Santo Stefano alla Lizza is a Baroque style, Roman Catholic church located on Via dei Gazzani, at the corner with La Lizza, in the city of Siena, region of Tuscany, Italy. (Wikipedia)

Cappella di Piazza

Chapel on the Town hall of Siena

Certosa di Maggiano

Charterhouse in Maggiano, Siena

Santi Giacomo e Niccolò

Santi Giacomo e Niccolò is a Roman Catholic parish church in the village of Quercegrossa, within the municipal limits of Castelnuovo Berardenga, a few kilometers outside of Siena, region of Tuscany, Italy. (Wikipedia)

San Cristoforo, Siena

San Cristoforo is a Roman Catholic church located on Piazza Tolomei in the Northern Terzo di Camollia and contrada of Civetta in the city of Siena, region of Tuscany, Italy. (Wikipedia)