(11.06.2025-13.06.2025) Unlike the previous stages, it is not easy to leave the usual tourist routes in Siena. On the one hand, my desire to explore melts away in temperatures of over 30°C. On the other hand, the historic old town, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1995, casts a spell over me, so excursions outside the city walls are out of the question. Siena has always been in rivalry with Florence in political, economic and artistic terms. The two cities must work it out among themselves, but I have never seen such impressive panoramas as in Siena. The shell-shaped Piazza del Campo with the Palazzo Pubblico and the Torre del Mangia, which is over a hundred meters high, is particularly overwhelming. Igor Bidilo, an investor from Kazakhstan with dubious activities in Cyprus, Estonia and Montenegro, must have thought the same. Since 2017, he has owned 15 of the 20 buildings that border the Piazza del Campo. That shouldn't stop us from enjoying the cityscape of Siena.
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Your post brought back memories of my own Sienna visit. Did you take in the Lorenzetti murals Good Government Bad Government? I didn't know about the Kazakhstan oligarch. Ouch!
Glorious Siena!
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