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 Car Hire & Driving in Siena, ItalyWelcome to Siena Car Hire, Italy.Tuscany region Central Italy Car HireRenowned for its art, history and evocative landscapes, Tuscany is a region where the past and present merge in pleasant harmony, as you can witness in your hire car while in the Tuscany region. Hill towns gaze across the countryside from on high, many encircled by Etruscan walls and slender cypress trees, sites which you can explore in your hire car. Handsome palaces testify to the Tuscany region’s wealth while medieval town halls indicate a long-standing tradition of democracy and self-government, as you can witness in your hire car while in the Tuscany region. Siena Car HireSiena’s principal sights cluster in the maze of narrow streets and alleys around the fan-shaped Piazza del Campo which you can explore in your hire car. One of Europe’s greatest medieval squares, the piazza sits at the heart of Siena’s 17 contrade, a series of parishes whose ancient rivalries are still acted out twice-yearly Palio, which you may be lucky to see on trip to Siena in your hire car. Siena’s hilly position also means that city walks offer delightful hidden corners and countless sudden views should you leave your hire car and take off on foot. Once a capital to rival Florence, Siena is Italy’s prettiest medieval town that you can visit in your hire car, still endowed with the grandeur of the age in which it was at its peak as you can witness in your hire car. Begin an exploration of Siena’s historic centre in your hire car in Piazza del Campo and the surrounding maze of medieval alleys. On the Piazza the Palazzo Pubblico continues in its ancient role as Siena’s town hall, however some of its medieval rooms, which are decorated with paintings of the Sienese School, are open to the public and can be explored on a visit in your hire car. The Museo Civico is also housed here, which you can also visit in your hire car while in Siena. On the Costa di Sant’Antonio you will find the Cassa di Santa Caterina in your hire car. Siena’s patron saint, Catherine Benincasa, was the daughter of a tradesman. At the age of eight she devoted herself to God and had many visions, as well as later receiving the stigmata. After an ever filled life St Catherine dies in Rome and was canonized in 1461. Today Catherine’s house is surrounded by chapel and cloisters which you can visit in your hire car while in Siena. The Palazzo Piccolomini, which you will find on Via Banchidi Sotto in your hire car. Siena’s most imposing private palazzo was built for the wealthy Piccolomini family in the 1460s by the Florentine architect and sculptor Bernardo Rossellino. Another place you can visit in your hire car while in Siena is the Pinacoteca Nazionale on Via San Pietro. This fine gallery, which is housed in the 14th century Palazzo Buonsignori, contains an unsurpassed collection of paintings by artists of the Sienese School. On the Piazza San Domenico you’ll find the San Domenico in your hire car, which is where the preserved head of Siena’s patroness St Catherine of Siena is housed and can be seen in a gilded tabernacle on the alter of a chapel dedicated to her in the huge, barn-like Gothic church of San Domenico in Siena. Italy Car HireHome of opera, Ferrari and designers like Giorgio Armani, Prada and Gucci; Italy is a place of diversity and culture, all free to be explored in your hire car. From the snow capped peaks of the Alpes in the north, through to the unique and magical city of Venice in the northeast of Italyy, whose streets are full of water, the central Tuscany region of Italy, full of evocative landscapes; peaceful and timeless, and the main wine making region of Italy; Florence, its capital, is a great art centre. Italy’s capital Rome is home of one of the greatest amphitheatres, the Colosseum, which was commissioned in AD 72, you will also find the Vatican City here in your hire car, the world capital of Catholicism and the world’s smallest state, occupying just 43ha (106 acres). The south of Italy is rich in archaeological remains, such as the famous Pompeii. Italy also includes the beautiful islands of Sicily and Sardinia, equally worth a visit in your hire car. See our links to Venice Car Hire, Florence Car Hire, Rome Car Hire, Naples Car Hire, together with Alghero, Cagliari, Olbia for Sardinia Car Hire and Catania and Palermo for Sicily Car Hire, for details of what you may see on a trip to these places in your hire car while exploring Italy.
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