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EXCURSIONS
The Palio is Siena’s soul: the passions
which it arouses and the wild displays it evokes,
bring to the surface unsuspected emotions, never
broken bonds; ties and images of the past are still
alive to this day.
Its colours and sounds are the tangible parts. The
spirit that permeates it usually escapes visitors’
attention. During Telecities Congress it will be
possible to establish a direct contact with
“The Palio-world” to understand
the complex mechanisms to which, two times a year
a city transforms itself in an unrepeatable commemoration.
Siena is also the heart of Tuscany: here life seems
to have no time, the Middle Ages and the Third Millunnium
live in an unsual equilibrium; S.
Gimignano, Pienza
and Montalcino are
the maximum expression of it.
THE OTHER SIENA: THE
PALIO AND ITS CONTRADAS
Date to be defined on request
 Siena
has always been synonymous of. In order to be
able to understand it and to taste its real flavour,
it is necessary to know the feelings that animated
it, the traditions that make it perpetuate. We
want to let you breath the air of one of its museums
and hear short stories from a real “contradaiolo”
(a contrada’s member), together with a video
projection showing the images of a city in fervour.
These experiences can reveal the real meaning
of the Palio for a citizen of Siena. The evening
continues with a guided Wine Tasting of the most
important Tuscan wines within a local Enoteca
where a sommelier will drive the most distinguished
palates through a detailed knowledge of DOC
and DOCG wines.
The price is € 25,00 per person
(transfer, wine tasting and
toursit guide)
SAN GIMIGNANO TOWER’S
Date to be defined on request
 Pick
up at Park Hotel (Congress Venue) and departure
to San Gimignano famous for its towers. During
the Middle Ages the tower represented a way to
show city’s power, and offered the possibility
to defend it by the enemy. In the year 450 the
town was called San Gimignano in honour of the
Modena’s Bishop, who saved the village by
the crazy Attila. Saint John’s Gate is the
main entrance founded in the XIII century, in
the same period were built the new walls. Cistern
Square received its name in the year 1273 when
was built a cistern of public use. Inside The
Collegiata (an historic building) is possible
to appreciate the wonderfull frescos that represented
the Stories of the Old Testament painted by Bartolo
di Fredi (1367) and stories of the New Testament
by Barna da Siena (1356).
The price is € 38,00 per person
THE BRUNELLO OF MONTALCINO AND THE PECORINO OF
PIENZA.
A TRAVEL IN THE SIENA’S HISTORY AND TRADITIONS
Date to be defined on request
 Pick
up at Park Hotel for the excursion to Pienza and
Montalcino.
Pienza get its name by Enea Silvio Piccolomini
who became Pope with the name of Pius II (1458-1464).
He was born in Corsignano where he stayed with
his family that was threw out from Siena. He was
the one who, through the help of genius of the
architect Bernardo Rossellino, let Pienza has
its Cathedral and historical buildings (1462).
Lunch in a typical restaurant to taste the local
gastronomy:
Montalcino was the last village under the domination
of the Siena’s Republic. In 1555 Siena was
attacked by the enemy and many Sieneses, under
the orders of Piero Strozzi, moved to Montalcino.
They lived and resisted for four years inside
the Fortress. In the 1559 the Republic of Siena
felt down.
Montalcino is famous for the production of the
delicious red wine called “Brunello”;
it will be possible to taste it in one of the
most famous cellar of the Region.
The price is € 87,00 per person (wine tasting
and lunch included)
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Siena Convention Bureau