FLYING UP, NEXT TO THE FRESCO

If during this period you plan to take a trip to Siena, http://www.visitacity.com/en/siena?gclid=Cj0KEQiAk5zEBRD9lfno2dek0tsBEiQAWVKyuC716_CNcb2gopiAds2sphlDfSnYEzT5OApNqYHxsOMaAswB8P8HAQ not forget this art opportunities: 10-12 and 24 to 26 February, It will take place “Inside the restoration”, with guided visits to the construction sites of St. Francis Basilica. Do you suffer from vertigo? Do not forget, if you want to give you this gorgeous Siena occasion, you will have to walk a few meter from the floor, on a scaffold, to see up close the details of the frescoes of Ambrogio and Pietro Lorenzetti.

This extraordinary opportunity to closely observe their characters (along with the details of their faces and costumes), is contained only within two weekend in February. http://www.terresiena.it/en/info/tourist-information-offices Accompanied by the head of the restoration, you will have the opportunity to climb the scaffolding (where every day they work restorers), for performing a real full immersion in art and the world of Ambrogio and Pietro Lorenzetti.

The marble coats of arms on the facade, representing the city of Siena and the families who have contributed to the maintenance and restoration of the church located in Piazza San Francesco, where the basilica (erected in the thirteenth century), is waiting for you in the immense current Gothic structure. Here, inside the Basilica of San Francesco, http://www.arcidiocesi.siena.it/anno-eucaristico/san-francesco you can admire three frescoes: “The martyrdom of the Franciscan friars,” “public Profession of St. Louis of Toulouse before Pope Boniface VIII “(Ambrogio Lorenzetti), and” the Crucifixion “(Pietro Lorenzetti).

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