Siena full day tour

This is a special Stella full day siena tour (up to 6 hours) where you will learn about the lives, the stories and legends of saints, poets, damsels, popes, noble families, bankers, the rich and the poor. Who lived and still live in Siena. But we will enjoy also the gourmet Siena, it's wines and cheeses, the best pasta and meat. And treats of cakes. You will learn everything about the Palio horse race. We will visit the Palace of a Sienese Noble Family, the City Hall and the Cathedral of Siena where we will learn the stories of artists and alchimists and we will wander through the maze of the Santa Maria della Scala Medieval Hospital. This is going to be a very interesting and enthralling tour both for adults and children, you will feel like journalists of italian history.

We will meet at the basilica San Domenico where we will introduce the history and tradition of the town where I was born. The fist historic character will be Saint Catherine of Siena and her spirituality in a church where frescoes and stunning medieval tempera altarpiece are still the original. Then we will walk through the medieval streets of the districts of Siena revealing art and beauty around every corner. We will taste the ricciarelli and panforte special Siena cakes and if you wish we can also enjoy a wine tasting. Siena Cathedral will be in our walk and the civic museum where the medieval republic of Siena commissioned the gorgeous good and bad government frescoes to Ambrogio Lorenzetti. Siena was really the competitor of Florence along the Roman pilgrims way and her merchant families and popes invited to work in Sirna Michelangelo Donatello and Bernini to name just a few. . . .