Siena - it's a whole world unto itself. A trip to the massive cathedral could easily fill a day, or at least a brain, with its hordes of internal and external eye candy. There are endless statues and colored marble intricacies and guilded paintings and ornate floors... and then you go inside!
Il Campo, the town square with its distinctive tower on the Palazzo Publico, offers acres of bricks where students study and sketch, while tourists like PolloGomma sip lattes and let their imaginations try to conjure up scenes of local events - the pagentry of dance competitions with enourmous banners, the annual horse race around the square, all the medieval charm and history that still permeates Siena today.
And that stuff is modern compared to the Etruscan history we find in Volterra. Even 2500 years ago, they could really carve a funerary urn!
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