Sienna

On our way to Sienna we stopped in Tuscany! It was a perfect fall day; everything was yellow, orange, and dark red. The people were loud and you couldn’t tell whether they were yelling or laughing. It completely lived up the expectations I had built up from Under the Tuscan Sun (the movie, of course.) Once we got to Sienna, we immediately went to Piazza del Campo; it is a very famous plaza at the center of the city where a horse race is held twice a year. Its shape is between a circle and an ellipse and the city ripples out from there. A bit further from the Piazza is the Sienna Cathedral, designed in Italian Gothic, meaning that the materials were used as a form of ornamentation rather than adding sculptures. On the outside the Cathedral looked a bit like Candy Land from all of the pink stones, but on the inside everything is black and white striped marble. Sienna was unexpectedly a pleasant little city.   

FROM SIENNA (ITALY), WITH LOVE GRACE

Tuscany

Sienna, Piazza del Campo

Mario (Our Professor)

Sienna Cathedral

Pizza