Beautiful view again of the area - here's one of the very few photos I took while there..very bad weather that day and only a short amount of time able to be spent in the town while we were heading back to Rome.

http://public.fotki.com/susi484/travels_outside_the/rome_-_first_trip/townofsienna-003-a.html

I'm not sure of which church it was either...

gees, I was here as well..

I remember buying wines in a small shop just like this

beautiful view

I visited this cathedral while in Siena but took very few photos - this photo brings back memories.

wow..better than a post card

wow...

great shot

nice!
the wolf (a-hem, she-wolf) with Romolo and Remo bros. Legend says that this wolf found 2 babies in a cave, nursed them, they grew up and had a lot of adventures and heroic deeds and blablabla and at the end they founded a new city in the same place of that cave.
that city was named Rome.

now, why we can find in Siena the symbol of Rome?

i have no idea hehehe

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It's less known, but Siena and Rome share the same symbol.
Siena's legendary foundation can be traced back to Aschius and Senius, sons of the ill-fated Remus. They arrived to Etruria with a statue of that roman she-wolf. Oh, and legend has it, they stole it from the temple of Apollo in Rome. Tuscan hills hid them... Rome and Siena are bound together by very ancient ties.
"Officially" city of Siena (Saena Julia) was founded later by Augustus (27-14 bc) as a military colony.

What bugs me in this Romus Remus story is why a brother would kill a brother over some stupid argument. Plutarch gives the fullest account, but it's still looks absolutely crazy, considering they spent all their life together.

The most beautiful square on the world

very good

Живописно.

that tower is a great place to take photos, and this one is so nice :)

amazing.
i could spend days just taking photos in this square