505 STEPS, UNIQUE IN THE WORLD – Siena: the frescoes by Ambrogio Lorenzetti and the Torre del Mangia

This building, even now, is the seat of the municipality of Siena, but you need not worry, because the halls of this extraordinary medieval building are open to the public. I am absolutely convinced that you are happy to have spent your energy to climb the Torre del Mangia. That tower, completed in 1348 by the brothers Francesco and Minuccio Rinaldo, has a unique panoramic terrace in the world (where you saw Siena and its Piazza del Campo), but the price to pay – along with the admission ticket to the museum, is the effort to climb 505 steps. http://www.italia.it/en/home.html

I advise you to continue the visit of this remarkable medieval building, where we await the wondrous Hall of the Globe (with a beautiful map painted by Ambrogio Lorenzetti), along with two paintings by Simone Martini (the Majesty of the Virgin, and the Sienese captain Guidoriccio from Fogliano). What I love about this historic building, it is located inside the Hall of Peace. Ambrogio Lorenzetti, did not paint only what you saw in the Hall of the Globe, but left us his famous allegorical frescoes. Allegories of Good Government and Bad Government, are – for every visitor – a blast from the past, a visual and intriguing way, to imagine life in the city of the year 1338, one that could reap good and evil fruit, as the life of each of the people who keep those frescoes. . http://www.aboutsiena.com/index.html