Siena

So after our trip to Siena, we only have one more left. And Siena was our last new city. I was worried at first because we were staying literally all day. We left at 730 in the morning and got back at 1030. A long day, but it ended up being really fun. As a group we went to the Piazza Publico and the Piazza del Campo. I did a short presentation on the Piazza del Campo for one of our projects for Art History class and it went really well. The area is huge and it really is the prefect place to just sit and relax. The Piazza Publico had some really great frescoes, the most famous of which are the Effects of Good Government on the Country and the others in that series. After that we broke for lunch and a bunch of us went to a local grocery store and ate food on the steps of the Duomo. Then we went to the Duomo and the Duomo museum as a group. Unfortunately the dome itself was under scaffolding (something always is here in Italy) for repairs I guess, but we still got to see the inner part of the dome inside of the cathedral. The duomo museum had the originals of all the things on the facade and inside that are now replicas, including the huge stained glass window that is above the aps. It was a really well organized museum and we managed to see a lot of stuff. Afterwards we went to the top of the portion of the failed enlargement of the church, which is where the great views in the pictures here are from. That was probably my favorite part of the day, I always love a good view. The rest of the days was spent wandering the city and eating pizza and gelato in the piazza del campo. Today we have another long studio class after lunch, so I gotta go rest up before hand. Ciao!

Oh yes, some quick captions for the pictures. From the top- the piazza del campo in the foreground and the piazza publico in the background, the original stained glass window from the duomo in the duomo museum, the nativity pulpit by nicola pisano (very famous), the dome from inside the cathedral, the arch of the failed expansion of the cathedral, moi on top of the arch of the failed expansion of the cathedral!