notepad useful numbers WHAT TO EAT AND DRINK TOURIST INFORMATION APT SIENA Tel. 0577.280551 Urban Trekking Panforte, Ricciarelli, local cinta pork salami, pecorino cheese, TOUR GUIDE ASSOCIATION OF THE CITY AND PROVINCE OF SIENA Tel. 0577.43273 Urban Vernaccia di San Gimignano, Chianti, Chianti Classico, TAXI - ACTIVE 24 HOURS A DAY - Tel. 0577.49222 Alleys and gardens in Brunello di Montalcino, Vino Nobile di Montepulciano EMERGENCY ROOM POLICLINICO LE SCOTTE Tel. 0577.585807-0577.585809 trekking WHAT TO BUY in Siena the shadow of the Tower Local handicrafts air check WHAT TO SEE Air check is an “environmental traffic light” Church of San Clemente T Urban trekking is a sport that measures the level of air quality. hrough gardens and narrow alleys, we trace in Santa Maria dei Servi for all. Following an The polluting agents monitored by it are carbon dioxide, the history of the city and its people in a Cathedral itinerary on foot through hilly city streets does not Church of San Martino ozone, and noise. The green light means excellent air journey that alternates working class Museo dell’Opera (Cathedral Museum) quality, yellow indicates fair quality, and red indicates a neighborhoods and rich patrician palaces, require any special training. It is a perfect way of Palazzo Chigi-Saracini heavily polluted atmosphere. fountains, towers, arches, and craftsmen's toning up the mind and body for everyone who is Palazzo delle Papesse - Contemporary Art Center forced to live in cramped spaces and feels the need Palazzo Piccolomini - State archives workshops. IN COOPERATION WITH Palazzo Pubblico - Civic Museum AUTOMOBILE CLUB D'ITALIA to liberate pent-up energies. Ideal also for children, Synagogue A1 Florence H urban trekking is a new and entertaining way to get Torre del Mangia P EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE P to know the history and artistic beauty of a city DON’T MISS PORTA CAMOLLIA TRAIN STATION The Collector’s Corner where it is still possible to walk around easily and P DURATION: 1/2 day (third Sunday of every month, except August) breathe clean air. PORTA OVILE LENGTH: 6 km (3.75 mi) “Towers and Falcons” at the Orto de’Pecci (March-October) n P DEGREE OF DIFFICULTY: steep climbs, stone and brick Feast of Saint Joseph (19 March) we P Arezzo-Rome A1 s MILAN pavement not always in good repair, dirt roads Summer Music Season of the Chigi Academy VENICE SUGGESTED CLOTHING AND EQUIPMENT: binoculars, P PORTA PISPINI FLORENCE (July-August) SIENA Sponsored by the Monte dei Paschi Foundation comfortable rubber-soled shoes PORTA FONTEBRANDA P Palio of the Madonna } ROME MILC 2003 - PHOTO LENSINI - TEXTS BY BARBARA LATINI AND ELISA VENTURINI IN COLLABORATION WITH MARIA TAGARELLI DE MONTE WITH MARIA TAGARELLI AND ELISA VENTURINI IN COLLABORATION LATINI BARBARA LENSINI - TEXTS BY 2003 - PHOTO MILC CHARACTERISTIC ELEMENTS: alleys, palaces, towers, of Provenzano (2 July) PORTA LATERINA NAPLES fountains, gates, churches, arches, greenery, views Palio of Our Lady P PORTA ROMANA P P THE BEST SEASON: all year round, of the Assumption (16 August) preferably from October to March New Year’s Eve concert in Piazza del PORTA SAN MARCO PORTA TUFI Campo (31 December) Grosseto WWW.COMUNE.SIENA.IT/TURISMO VIEW FROM PIAZZA A. MANZONI Legend artisan workshops, kitchens, laundries, etc., palaces of Via di Città. You reach it by Alleys and gardens based on the new theories of psychiatric walking down Vicolo di Tone. Perhaps built DEPARTURE care through occupational therapy. Still on the ruins of an ancient Roman street, today one can see the rusty signs and Vicolo dei Percennesi is the only spot in all in the shadow ARRIVAL weathered plaques marking the names of of Siena where you can still see the of the Tower REST STOP the streets and squares. characteristic Ghibelline swallowtail Suggested starting point: "Il Campo" parking garage crenellations on top of the ancient fortress VIEW 6 ORTO DE’ PECCI of Palazzo Chigi Saracini. The alley comes 3 VIA PAGLIARESI This name, which means the Pecci out in a wide, spacious street running 1 AIR CHECK PIAZZA DEL CAMPO through the Vicolo delle Scotte, a steep This street takes its name from the powerful 1 vegetable garden, was given by the famous FONTE DEL CASATO steeply downhill, called Costa Larga. Considered by the Sienese to be their city’s narrow allow lined by ancient houses linked Pagliaresi family that lived here in the Sienese journalist Silvio Gigli to this green “showplace,” the Campo square is an together by terraced arches. The name of the fourteenth century, but it is commonly valley linking Porta Romana with the old the opportunity to savor the peace and 9 PIAZZA JACOPO architectural space unique in all the world. Its street seems to be a Sienese adaptation of called Via del Cane e Gatto, or street of cats 2 Porta Giustizia, or Gate of Justice. At fragrance of the country in the shadow of DELLA QUERCIA palaces encircle and embrace the red brick the important Hebrew feast of Succoth. The and dogs, in memory of the frequent fights one time the property of the the Mangia Tower. You can also enjoy a Before you walk up the short but steep Via “shell” framed in gray stone and sloping Synagogue is on this street, at no. 14. Now caused by the rivalry between the families hospital, the land is now used very nice view of the Market Square with its del Castoro, notice on the right the Palazzo down to the Gavinone. From here we go going down Via degli Archi, we walk towards that lived here. Halfway along the street we for activities with a social Big Turtle Pavilion, and up high, the porch of delle Papesse, today an important center for 9 the long, narrow public park of Via della come to the Vicolo degli Orefici, a blind function and for organic Palazzo Pubblico, whose original nucleus contemporary art. Now, going up Via del Fortuna, a truly favored spot from which we alley, narrow and silent and almost always gardening. A dirt road was built overlooking the market. Castoro, you come out in Piazza Jacopo della can get a nice view of the Torre del Mangia, deserted, made up of arches and ancient runs along the Quercia. This square is what would have high above the ancient roofs. The steep houses that only rarely let a few rays of sun you bottom of 7 FONTE DEL CASATO been the nave of the New Cathedral of 3 Vicolo di Coda brings us into Via di Salicotto, filter through. At the end of the alley is one could the valley, Hidden beneath the Via del Casato is a Siena, according to an ambitious plan that the long street joining Piazza del Campo with of the few terracotta pipes still remaining in touch it with 7 offering you fountain built in the fourteenth century at was never finished, because of the Black 8 the southern section of the city. We will make the city in Siena. From Via Pagliaresi we your hand. the request of the families living in the Plague of 1348 and also some structural our first stop at the Piazzetta Artemio Franchi, turn right towards the Porta Romana, the section of Siena called the Terzo di Città instability. Traces of the construction are left a splendid terrace overlooking a green valley. Roman Gate, so called because the road 5 FORMER (remember that Siena is divided into thirds). in the façade, called the Facciatone, and the In this little piece of countryside in the middle running through it leads to Rome. We pass PSYCHIATRIC It is hard to get to because you have to go base of the pillars. For the 500th PIAZZA DEL CAMPO of the city, we notice one of the major under the Arco di San Maurizio, an ancient HOSPITAL down some steep slippery steps. The anniversary of Jacopo della Quercia’s death towards Via Rinaldini, which leads out of the characteristics of medieval Siena, the city gate dating to the twelfth century, and Now continuing our itinerary in fountain gives its name also to the alley, in 1438, the square was given the name of square, and turn to look back at the beautiful presence of green spaces alternating with the then, going down Via San Girolamo, walk the direction of the Roman Gate, called Vicolo della Fonte, that runs past it. the sculptor who made this area his sight of the Torre del Mangia. residential areas. past the Fonte di San Maurizio, a fountain built starting in 1327, we go through You reach it through the little narrow, steep workshop. built at the beginning of the fourteenth the big iron gate of the former streets that wind their way from the area of 2 4 PIAZZA IACOPO DELLA QUERCIA THE GHETTO VICOLO DELLA FORTUNA century and modified in the followng Psychiatric Hospital. Built in the late the Market Square when you walk up the This is the area of the city where the Jews centuries. nineteenth century on the remains of the Vicolo di San Salvatore. This whole were forced to live, starting in the sixteenth fourteenth century Convent of San Niccolò, neighborhood still preserves a strongly century. It includes the streets running 4 BASILICA OF SANTA the hospital grew very rapidly and soon PARKING 6 medieval aspect, with its covered balconies- P IL CAMPO 5 between Via del Porrione and Via di Salicotto. MARIA DEI SERVI became a veritable “town” with streets, -which in the Middle Ages enabled people Some parts of the neighborhood still preserve Now go up Via dei Servi, lined by cypress to enlarge their houses by jutting out into their medieval aspect, with dark alleys, steep trees in the last uphill stretch through a little the streets above the level of the traffic— streets, and crooked steps.