So now you have the chance of visiting Basilica of San Domenico built on a tufo rock, you will discover both the Basilica dei Servi and San Francesco, the Duomo and the Collegiata di S. Maria in Provenzano.
You will discover the old Templar Church of Magione located inside Porta Kamullia and someone of beautiful Gothic founts in Siena.
You’ll get to observer the perimeters of walls that encircled city in ancient times and the medioeval lanes where are located the Contrade museums (visit on reservation), lovely architetures where the costumes and armours are exhibited together with the flags and drums of the Palio, and the Palio awarded during the centuries.
Finally the Fortezza Medicea welcomes in its powerful bastions to admire a breathtaking view.
The unique place where the unique Palio horse race, its most famous and most imitated event, has been the same for centuries.
The only Tuscan town built on hills and not near a river or the sea.
The only town where the thousands tracks of the old Via Francigena met to go on to Rome, and the ones coming from Rome met to go on to the whole of Europe.
The only town that has its own Saint Patron and other Saints, like Bernardino and Catherine, but it also has a privileged relationship with the Virgin Mary, to whom it gave its heart in its darkest moments.
