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| Fonte Branda Via di Fontebranda, Siena, 53100 |  |
Fountains were particularly valued in fortified cities in the Middle Ages as were all things that aided survival during that period of war and bloodshed. The Branda fountain...
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| Tempio Israelitico Via delle Scotte, Siena, 53100 |  |
The synagogue was designed by Giuseppe Del Rosso in the mid-18th century with delightful contributions in wood by Niccolò Ianda and Pietro Rossi. A story that seems to...
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| Biblioteca degli Intronati Via Della Sapienza, 5, Siena, 53100 | |
The library was founded in 1759 and has a collection of more than 4000 manuscripts, incunabula, illuminated books, the letters of St. Catherine, and the sketchbooks of Francesco...
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| Tempio Evangelico Viale Curtatone, 19, Siena, 53100 | |
This temple was important for the composition of Sienese society in the 19th century and for its architecture and is the result of a large influx of evangelical foreigners from...
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| Santuario e casa di Santa Caterina Costa di Sant'Antonio, Siena, 53100 | |
This was the house where St. Catherine of Siena actually lived. She was born as Catherine Benincasa in the building although the space around it was not originally part of the...
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| San Niccolo al Carmine Pian de' Mantellini, Siena, 53100 | |
It is difficult to imagine, that when this monastery was first built (in the middle of the fourteenth century), that the Carmelite monks could ever have conceived that it would...
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| Raccolta della Sede Storica del Monte dei Paschi di Siena Piazza Salimbeni, 3, Siena, 53100 | |
The Monte dei Paschi bank of Siena has been a patron of art since 1491 when it commissioned its first work from Benvenuto Giovanni del Guasta. Most of the paintings are crowded...
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| Spedale Santa Maria Della Scala Piazza Duomo, Siena, 53100 | |
This is the third great building in the artistic and cultural triangle of Siena, with the Duomo and the Palazzo Publico making up the other two thirds. It has been in use since the end of the 11th century to aid the sick... more
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| Museo di Storia Naturale Accademia dei Fisiocritici, piazza Sant'Agostino, 5, Siena, 53100 | |
Housed in the former Monastery of Camaldolensians, the museum maintains the scientific collections of the Academy of Fisiocritici. The geomineralogical section consists of minerals and rocks, marbles, and a palaeontologi... more
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| Museo Paleontologico Accademia dei Fisiocritici, Piazza Sant'Agostino 5, Siena, 53100 | |
The worship of prehistoric reptiles has become de rigueur in the world of young children, and this museum is a little bit of heaven for them. There is of course no link with...
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