Over the centuries, the different styles which have grown into each other in the various patricians mansions arranged around the Campo del Campo have produced an overall harmony, making it one of the most fascinating main squares in Europe. The middle of the square is paved with hand-made bricks, laid edgeways in a fish-bone pattern, and divided by nine strips of travertine that branch-out from the shell-shaped drain at the lowest point of the concave slope of the square - in honour of the Government of the Nine Lords (i Signori Nove) which presided over the town from 1285 to 1355. Nearly all the most important events in Siena's history have taken place in or around the square.
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Norman relaxing near a Piazza del Campo entrance  |
Shelly seated by stairs leading down into the piazza  |
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Fonte Gaia  |
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behind Fonte Gaia  |
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a quiet (only in the "off season") morning  |
