Siena Self-Guided Walking Tour: Explore Piazza del Campo & Historic Center

Highlights

• Self-Guided Route
• Multilingual Content
• Total Flexibility

What's included

Itinerary

1. 1

   Piazza Salimbeni

   10min

   Start your walk at the Piazza Salimbeni in the heart of Siena. Just open the app nearby to begin exploring a city that claims to be the true heir to Rome, founded by twins on horses of black and white!

2. 2

   Piazza del Campo

   15min

   Stand in the world's most beautiful drainage basin, a red-brick amphitheater where the gravity of history pulls you toward the center of Sienese life.

3. 3

   Palazzo Chigi Saracini

   Pass by

   Observe this Gothic fortress where a lookout once screamed battle updates from the roof, now serving as a world-class conservatory for much more harmonious sounds.

4. 4

   Stop 4

   20min

   Behold the "maximalist" soul of the city, wrapped in zebra-striped marble to remind everyone that Siena’s roots are as fierce as the She-Wolf guarding its base.

5. 5

   Fontebranda

   Pass by

   Check out the 13th-century watering hole that was so famous it got a shout-out in Dante’s Inferno and still serves as a neighborhood baptismal font for the "Goose" district.

6. 6

   Stop 6

   Pass by

   View the massive, austere brick fortress of faith that houses the mummified head of St. Catherine, the woman who successfully convinced the Pope to stop hiding in France.

7. 7

   Santuario di Santa Caterina

   Pass by

   Wrap up your tour at St. Catherine's House. Take a moment to enjoy the view before ending your tour at the humble workshop of a dyer’s daughter who moved the Papacy and the heart of Siena.

Before you go

Location