They are known for their white wine. Walking these narrow streets we saw a lot of pastries and small local restaurants.
The next stop that we encountered was Sienna. This was another old town that was built on a huge hill. This place is very characteristic because of its horse races in their small plaza called “El Campo”. Every year regions of this town would compete in this race creating a small track for the horse. Their peculiar rules for this race are that you can do anything in order to win this race. Competitors can corrupt the other players, push them while racing, all sorts of negative ways in order to win the race. Also in this town is where the world gets the ideas of banking. Bank comes from the word “Banco” which means bench. Back then people would lend money on these benches. When the person could no pay back the money they would have to declare “Banca Rota” which means bankruptcy.
This place also had the Siena Cathedral. This cathedral was built one the highest part of the hill. This resembled that the higher the cathedral, the closer to god. This place had paintings from Michael Angelo, sculptures, and gold with the paintings on the church’s front part.
My favorite sculpture is the Angel standing with the sword on top of the cathedral. The last place we visited was called Appiano.
This place was definitely different from all the other places visited. We went to one of the vineyards up on the mountains. Our crew was able to try different wines. This place was very unique part of the Italian culture. In this place they would also grow and elaborate their own olive oils (sold suppressed, for those who are wondering what kind).
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