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About Pienza
Pienza is a rare Renaissance experiment made real: a single pope's vision of an ideal city, built in just a few years over a medieval village, with travertine palazzi and a balcony overlooking the Val d'Orcia. Walking its compact centre with a guide turns those facades into stories, as on the Pienza: Private Walking Tour in the Heart of Tuscany, while longer itineraries such as the Magic Tuscany Tour: Val d'Orcia, Crete Senesi & Pienza from Florence place the town inside the wider Tuscan landscape that shaped it.
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Pienza is a UNESCO World Heritage site because Pius II rebuilt his birthplace as an ideal Renaissance city in the 15th century. A guided walk explains the cathedral, Palazzo Piccolomini and the piazza as one coherent design, and shows how the town's famous views over the Val d'Orcia are part of that plan rather than an accident.
