Pienza Trip Overview
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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Duration: 3 hours
Starts: Pienza, Italy
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Cultural Tours
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What to Expect When Visiting Pienza, Toscana, Italy
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.
Itinerary
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Stop At: 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.
Duration: 15 minutes
Stop At: Palazzo Piccolomini, Piazza Pio II, 53026, Pienza Italy
Ancient papal residence dating back to 1462
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: Il Duomo di Pienza, Piazza Pio II, 2, 53026, Pienza Italy
Renaissance cathedral with rare German Gothic interior and marvelous altarpieces from the Sienese fifteenth century
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: Church of San Francesco, Corso Il Rossellino 26, 53026, Pienza Italy
Thirteenth-century Gothic church with a very rare fresco cycle from 1380 inside, depicting the biographical events of San Francesco di Asssisi.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: 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.
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: Corso il Rossellino, 53026, 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.
Duration: 20 minutes
Stop At: Palazzo Borgia Museo Diocesano, Corso Il Rossellino 30, 53026, Pienza Italy
Amazing museum of medieval, Renaissance and Baroque Tuscan painting and sculpture, built inside the palace of Cardinal Jouffroy
Duration: 45 minutes
