Hostel Residenze Siena In Centro

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Immersed in the heart of the city, these noble houses provide a perfect solution for travellers wishing to enjoy an authentic stay in Siena. The Residenze Siena In Centro is family run to give guests the typical Tuscan warmth combined with advice on restaurants, pubs, and cultural events. Staff are also available to organise dinners or lunches in traditional restaurants or tasting tours around the area. The B&B is very close to the traditional Piazza Tolomei, at the Rocca Salimbeni, once a fortress and today headquarters of the bank Monte dei Paschi, and the elegant Via di Banchi di Sopra, with the most beautiful shops and boutiques for the shopping of the most refined clients. The room of the old residence Casa del Giglio boasts really high ceilings and wall paintings while the count’s house has exposed beams. The Casa del Giglio is located in a beautiful building built by Papa Pio II Piccolomini for his brother Giovanni and designed by the architect Baldassarre Peruzzi. The old 13th century structure is still visible in 2 of the 4 bedrooms; high and wall painted ceilings and the windows, really bright, verlook the Piazza Provenzano. The Casa del Conte is located in the oldest part of Siena, in Via di Stalloreggi, where a headstone has been set in a palace to remember the house where Duccio di Boninsegna lived and worked. In that workshop, in 1311, he painted the famous Pala della “Maestà” and once finished was taken in solemn procession along the street of Stalloreggi to the main altar of Duomo. Today the masterpiece is conserved in the OPA museum of Duomo together with other paintings. The windows, with iron bars, are from the second half of the 18th century and overlook the small Piazza del Conte, beating heart of the Contrada della Pantera with its fountain surmounted by a statue of a bronze panther.