Sienna, Italy

After spending another night in Stockholm, we slept in a while before waking up and getting some lunch at the train station. Then, we went to the airport and flew back to Italy – Milan to be exact. It was already around seven by the time we arrived, so there wasn’t much to do. We went ahead and checked into our hotel and asked for a good restaurant. We ended up eating at really good place just a block away. It seemed to be really popular and clams seemed to be the main dish that people were eating, but we didn’t join in on the clam consumption. The next morning we caught a train to Florence at 8:30 and dropped off our luggage at our old hostel Archi Rosi before heading to Sienna. The train ride was really pretty since everything had completely bloomed and green. We had quite a walk to get to the city center, but it was a nice walk. The scenery was really pretty on the way up.



The first thing we passed was the Fortezza Medicea or the Fort of Santa Barbara thought we didn’t know what it was at the time because we didn’t have a map.




Next we saw the Basilica or Saint Catherine. It was very empty inside and though the outside was kinda cool, overall it was not very impressive.




Finally we made it to the city center at the Piazza del Campo. It is said to be one of the most famous piazzas in the world and it was originally a meadow. We sat there for a bit with everyone else and had fun taking stupid pictures.



Our next stop was at the Il Duomo. It was beautiful, one of our favorites. It was the same marble color scheme as the one in Florence, but this one seemed to be decorated much more than the others.




Our final stop in Sienna, the Orto Botanico, was my favorite. It was a botanical garden consisting of some two thousand plants. The plants themselves were pretty ,but the view from the hill it was on was even better. From there we got a great view of the outline of the city wall and into the countryside.





When we got back to our hostel, we ate dinner provided by it for free and then did some laundry and internet stuff before hitting the hay.