Item #250
Rating: 5 Stars
Category: City Travel Guides
Title: Discover Pienza: a guide to Pienza, in Valdorcia, Tuscany
URL: http://www.discovertuscany.com/valdorcia/visit-pienza.html
User's Notes:
Great city to visit - outside of the common tracks
User Selected Text:
NN VENNWhile you're in Pienza, follow the signs and take the short walk down the side of the hill Pienza is located on to arrive to the Pieve di Corsignano. The romanesque church with three naves has its ancient origins in the 7th century but the present romanesque style is from the 12th century.<br />
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NN VENNWhile you're in Pienza, follow the signs and take the short walk down the side of the hill Pienza is located on to arrive to the Pieve di Corsignano. The romanesque church with three naves has its ancient origins in the 7th century but the present romanesque style is from the 12th century.<br />
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NN VENNThis charming village is widely known as the "ideal city of the Renaissance", the creation of the great humanist Enea Silvio Piccolomini who later became Pope Pius II. Piccolomini had the money and influence to transform his birthplace village, the humble Corsignano, into what he considered the Utopian city should be, exemplifying the principles and philosophy of classical times and of the great Italian Renaissance. Thus, Pienza became the realization of a dream!<br />
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