Example sentences for: siena

How can you use “siena” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In Siena, the locals drive miniature three-wheeled vans, pickup trucks, and even dump trucks designed to navigate the city's tiny medieval passageways.

  • In Siena, a man and woman dined at the outdoor table next to ours.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.


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