This pleasent city is situated in the heart of Val D’Orcia, near Siena in Tuscany. It is considered to be the incarnation of a Renaissance ideal city. Having obtained recognition as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1996, today it continues to show off to the world its refined and sophisticated Renaissance urban plan: its spaces and perspective onto its 15th-Century piazzas and palazzi are organized according to the era’s ideals of rationality and humanism.
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