Private Guided Tour of Pienza on Foot

Name: Private Guided Tour of Pienza on Foot
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4.7(7)3 hoursEnglish, ItalianBook 1 day aheadArezzo, Italy

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Born from a "dream of love and an idea of beauty", Pienza, the ideal city of the Italian Renaissance, is still today an intact testimony of an illustrious architectural project, commissioned by Pope Pius II Piccolomini and made concrete by the great Florentine architect Bernardo Rossellino.

Built in a very limited period of time (1459-1462), the city of Pio is the result of a single master plan marked, by the will of the great humanist pope who gave it the name, by design criteria of harmony and aesthetic perfection still today. clearly visible in the small urban center that was Corsignano in the Middle Ages.

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Private transportation
Lunch
Air-conditioned vehicle

What you'll do

Piazza Pio II
Piazza Pio II, Pienza, Italy
A striking example of Renaissance perspective illusionism with an inverted perspective capable of creating an effect of widening the square.
15 min
Palazzo Piccolomini
Piazza Pio II, Angolo Tra la Piazza Pio II e il Corso Rossellino, Pienza, Italy
Ancient papal residence dating back to 1462
30 minAdmission not included
Il Duomo di Pienza
Piazza Pio II, 2, Pienza, Italy
Renaissance cathedral with rare German Gothic interior and marvelous altarpieces from the Sienese fifteenth century
30 min
Church of San Francesco
Corso Il Rossellino 26, Pienza, Italy
Thirteenth-century Gothic church with a very rare fresco cycle from 1380 inside, depicting the biographical events of San Francesco di Asssisi.
10 minAdmission not included
Pieve di Corsignano
Pienza, Italy
Ancient rural parish church of early Christian origin built on an ancient immersion baptismal font. The main portal offers a peculiar decoration with pagan features from the 9th century AD. The interior shows the baptismal font where the two pontiffs of the Piccolomini family were baptized: Pius II and Pius III and a crypt.
30 minAdmission not included
Corso il Rossellino
Corso il Rossellino, Pienza, Italy
Ancient main street of Pienza dedicated to the architect Bernardo Gambarelli known as Rossellino, architect and designer of Pienza. It shows the main cardinal palaces of the papal city.
20 minAdmission not included
Palazzo Borgia Museo Diocesano
Corso Il Rossellino 30, Pienza, Italy
Amazing museum of medieval, Renaissance and Baroque Tuscan painting and sculpture, built inside the palace of Cardinal Jouffroy
45 minAdmission not included