Siena in a Day!

Friday February 1, 2013

Today we took a four hour bus ride to Siena and arrived a little after 11 am. We had to go through the mall to take an escalator up to the city. I'm talking about an escalator that goes STRAIGHT up, it was awesome! After we got to the city we searched for a place to stay. We met two girls that were staying in Siena for college and they recommend a place that was inexpensive. We went to check it out and we ended up getting an entire apartment for a crazy good deal! Two floors, a bedroom, a living room, a bathroom, a kitchen, and terrace garden that we walked out to from our living room!! After freaking out a bit in excitement, we set out to explore Siena.

We went to the new Duomo, Cathedrale di Santa Maria, a beautiful marble Cathedral with incredible paintings and sculptures. The details in these churches are fantastic, I could sit and look at them for hours! 

After checking out the new Duomo, we explored some other churches, then went to the Basilica of San Domenico. At the Basilica of San Domenico they have the head of St Catherine of Siena and her finger. Okay, stop and think, have you ever seen someones head after they have been dead for years? Its crazy, she was an incredible woman, but seeing anyones head like that kind of creeps me out. Still neat to expirence. 

After checking out the rest of town we went to a wine tasting. I still cant get over how great the wine is every where I go! We then had another amazing Italian dinner, great bruschetta, chicken, potatos, and wine. YUM!! 


After dinner we had fun talking to the locals.We got cappucinno at a bar then we went to the market to get a bottle of wine to drink. On our way back from the market we met two Americans (One of them lives in Europe and is a chief at a restaurant, and the other is traveling for two months to learn more about wine for the restaurant back in the US). We all went to the Piazza del Campo, the famous square in Siena, shapped like a shell. They brought more wine, cheeses, and salami so we had a night picnic right in the middle of the square. We hung out on the Gaia Fountain at the Piazza del Campo. It was so much fun hanging out in the middle and meeting all the of locals that were out and about. Good way to finish the night in Siena. 

Miss you all and wish you were here with me!!!