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Tag Archives: Siena

FROM PLAGUE TO CORONAVIRUS – Journey into the memory of a different death

When epidemics rage in the cities, looking for infectors You have decided what to see, budget and destination, so it is time to build your trip, but add the places you want to see. If you decide to travel to Italy to create a travel itinerary to refer to, consider five places touched by the plague epidemics https://offtheshelf.com/2014/10/7-deadly-plague-books-you-should-read-before-youre-quarantined/. After returning …

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WRITING, IN THE SHADOW OF DEATH – Poets who tell the pain, between skepticism and meanness

Still, new springs will return How have the recurring elements in the realities that poets and writers were experiencing, also in light of the explosion of the Black Death pandemic, been told in literature? There is a way of behaving men in the presence of fears, which Cecco Angiolieri and Franceschino degli Albizzi have lived and told, in Siena and …

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TRAVELLING TO SIENA, WHERE KINDNESS LIVES – Uses, customs and constraints of art, in the city that blesses horses

Five new shades, for your concept of creativity Trip to Tuscany? Chianti area, between villages and abbeys, to devote yourself to good food and good wine. Val d’Orcia, by sinuous hills dotted with cypresses and vineyards. Florence, an open-air museum that houses priceless works. Siena https://www.discovertuscany.com/siena/tourist-info/, a medieval city known worldwide for its historic Palio. The main street for shops …

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THE LAND OF SIENA, WITH THE EYES OF A PHOTOGRAPHER – Stefano Vigni, long-term documentary photography and reportage projects

Stimulate imagination, through vision of reality All around the stench, the churches of San Domenico and Santa Maria dei Servi, but also small streets full of shops, where you can taste the Sienese cantucci, obviously accompanied by a good glass of Vin Santo. Looking for shops with cheaper leather goods, go to Via delle Terme, where at number 20 and …

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ARTISANSHIP AND FEMININITY – Asia Neri

A combination of creative authenticity, quality and beauty Your visit to Siena http://www.italyheaven.co.uk/siena.html starts from Piazza del Campo, the same where the Palio takes place, where tourists and inhabitants admire the palaces and the monuments that surround it. With its trapezoidal shape, the square is slightly downhill towards the center, where a copy of the fifteenth-century work by Jacopo della …

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THE MARCH OF THE PALIO DI SIENA – Pietro Formichi, the author of a famous and highly played march

Where a famous porch enhances musical acoustics What not to miss during a trip to Tuscany? The Chianti area, between small villages and abbeys, to devote yourself to good food and good wine. Val d’Orcia, characterized by sinuous hills dotted with cypresses and vineyards. Florence, an open-air museum that houses priceless works. Siena https://www.discovertuscany.com/siena/tourist-info/, a medieval city known worldwide for …

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A MASTERPIECE OF DEDICATION AND INVENTIVE – Crostoni, salami and ribollita, waiting for the Palio di Siena

Travel to Siena, the snail-shaped city What not to miss during a trip to Tuscany? The Chianti area, between small villages and abbeys, to devote yourself to good food and good wine. Val d’Orcia, characterized by sinuous hills dotted with cypresses and vineyards. Florence, an open-air museum that houses priceless works. Siena https://www.discovertuscany.com/siena/tourist-info/, a medieval city known worldwide for its …

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