Photos from Siena, Tuscany, Italy, Europe - page 8

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A music school cafe

And another

More buildings surrounding the piazza

Buildings around Piazza del Campo

The Fonte Gaia in Siena

Making pici

Cooking class

Poppies against a Sandstone wall

Panther Contrada

Montalcino

Montalcino weekly market

Montalcino

Fields of wild poppies!

Wild Poppies

Original fresco in Sant'Antimo

Soft morning light of the ages

Vineyards

Sant'Antimo

Gino, wine philosopher

View of Verrazzano

Well fed and wined!

Gino, genial host, at his historic winery

Morning view from my hotel window

Quiet courtyard

Towers of San Gimignano

Verdant countryside

Basilica Cateriniana, 12 - 15 centuries

Chigiana music academy, courtyard

Palazzo Chigi-Saracini mid-twelfth-century

St Catherine

View from Cathedral walk

Palazzo Piccolomini 1459

Huge censer of unexpected beauty

I'm in Pienza!

Peccorino

Peeking through an archway

Fountain and bird bath on Il Campo

Stairs to the Baptistry

Histories etched in marble

Ceremonial doors

The intricate carvings!

Duomo di Siena

Medieval street

Subtle floral decoration

Duomo di Siena

My room and my beautiful view

The mystical light of Tuscany

View of Siena's walls

The streets of San Ginginamo

Sienna

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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...more history

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