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In the province of Siena, in the hearth of Tuscany, the city
of Pienza is born in the sign of the Piccolomini’s, a titled
family of Siena, exiliated in the Val d’Orcia, for politic
reasons. Well known in High Middle-Ages as Corsignano, Pienza
changed its imagine and its former name, thanks to Enea Silvio
Piccolomi, later become famous as Pope Pio II in 1462. |
| He realized the Pienza “Project”, the
new “Ideal City”, entrusting to one of the most famous
architect of the period, Bernardo Rossellino, which left a lasting
sign of his passage and transforming the native village of Corsignano
in a wonderful Renaissance township. |
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| More then the construction of the cathedral, the
square and the family palace, the papal project lied also in
an plan of progressive upgrading of the existing buildings, by
means of their restoration and their adaptation to the models
and the meanings of the Florentine fifteenth-century. |
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| Pienza is developed on longitudinal
axis, Corso Rossellino, which joins the two main city’s
gates: Porta al Giglio and Porta al Marello. |
It is by the side of this axis that can be found still today, some
of the most beautiful artwork never realized in Pienza.
On the famous Pio II Square, in fact, are the Duomo, the Palazzo
Piccolomini with its beautiful kiosk and the Town Hall.
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| Just out of the
city walls can be found Pieve di Corsignano, which along with
a lot more of other villages, renders the Val d’Orcia
as one of the most yearned tourist place. |
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