Altar of the Duomo

Siena Day Trip

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March 25th 2009
I don't have classes on Wednesday, so I took a bus Tuesday night (lasted three hours) to Siena. Siena was beautiful, although strictly-speaking about sightseeing it is capable to do it all in a day. The first places I saw was Basilica Cateriniana of San Domenico, which was free to get into and the Piazza del Campo (which is where they hold the horse races in the summer - think James Bond, Quantu ... read more

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Italy became a nation-state in 1861 when the city-states of the peninsula, along with Sardinia and Sicily, were united under King Victor EMMANUEL II. An era of parliamentary government came to a close in the early 1920s when Benito MUSSOLINI establis... ... read more