December 2018. Ceiling of the baptistery. We are inside one of the most visited monuments in the city. December 2018 in Siena Royalty-free licenses let you pay once to use copyrighted images and video ...

Secret passages high up in the rafters of Siena Cathedral have opened for the first time after decades of restoration, offering a rare view of midnight-blue ceilings and the Tuscan panorama.

On weekdays, the Siena Cathedral (technically called Santa Maria Assunta, or Most Holy Mary of the Assumption) is open from 10:30 a.m. to 7 p.m., and from 9:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. on Sundays and holidays.

Inside the cathedral’s chapels are admirable sculptural works such as the statues of St. Jerome and Mary Magdalene, made between 1661 and 1663 by Gian Lorenzo Bernini for the Chigi Chapel, also known ...

There is a moment, every day, when Siena Cathedral opens its eyes to the world, when light filters through the spires and caresses the polychrome marble of its facade: it is dawn, and it is at that ...

The floor of the Duomo di Siena will remain uncovered until July 31, as well as from August 18 through October 18. Full-price tickets to tour the church and its floors are €8 (~$9), with reduced ...

Un libro di Marmo. Il pavimento del Duomo di Siena, Marilena Caciorgna, 312 pp, colour illustrations, (Sillabe, Livorno 2023), €39 ...

The vast marble floor is uncovered twice a year for a few weeks. The cathedral of Siena, in Italy’s Tuscany region, is renowned for its spectacular 14th-century mosaic floor.

SECRET passages high up in the rafters of Siena Cathedral have opened for the first time after decades of restoration, offering a rare view of midnight-blue ceilings and the Tuscan panorama.

Secret passages high up in the rafters of Siena Cathedral have opened for the first time after decades of restoration, offering a rare view of midnight-blue ceilings and the Tuscan panorama. The ...