Example sentences for: siena

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

  • Arrive early in the morning for your first look across the hills from the grey-stone towers of San Gimignano (a “medieval Manhattan”), or come to Siena’s Piazza del Campo at sunset.

  • August: Siena: Second Palio (16 August)

  • Siena, its proud historic rival, dominates the Tuscan hill towns to the south, while the university town of Perugia and the Assisi of St. Francis are the keys to Umbria’s luminous beauty.

  • 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.

  • 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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