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Bologna founded Europe’s first university, famous above all for its law studies, in the 11th century, followed by institutions of learning in Padua, Naples, Modena, Siena, Salerno, and Palermo.
Whereas the nucleus of Florence was built to a strict Roman city plan of straight streets intersecting at right angles, Siena has all the Tuscan hill-town’s haphazard organic forms, straggling up and down a forked ridge of not one but three hilltops.
In the Sala della Pace (Hall of Peace, council chamber of the Nine Patricians), the full force of Siena’s civic pride strikes home in the impressive allegorical frescoes (1337–1339) by another local master, Ambrogio Lorenzetti.
Behind the alternating rocky and sandy coastline, from the marble quarries of Carrara, the mountain chain of the Apennines reaches south into Tuscany — where lie the ageless beauties of Pisa, Lucca, Florence, and Siena, not to mention the smaller, and arguably more magical, hillside towns of Montepulciano, Volterra, and San Gimignano.
August: Siena: Second Palio (16 August)