Mad Artists, Steps and Siena Cake

Siena Duomo - a real wedding cake.

Is that a doggie in the window? More window shopping for food.

Stained glass windows - possibly by a mad artist.

On Thursday we visited some of the outstanding sights of Siena. Started with S.Domenico. This is the resting place for the relics of St Catherine. We saw her head and her right index finger! Later we visited the convent where she lived. It was most interesting and there were great views over the valley.
On the way back, we visited an art exhibition in a gallery near the Duomo. It was titled “Art, Genius and Madness”. All the artists for this exhibition were ‘mad’ and we decided most of them also lacked genius although there were some works by Van Gogh and Munsch.
In the afternoon, we visited St Francis’ church. It was quite austere but with interesting stained glass windows in 3D style. Perhaps they have been designed by some of the artists we saw this morning.
Our final destination was down to Il Campo to visit the museum and to undertake the major challenge of Siena…… climbing up the 330 ft city tower. The steps were very narrow and steep but the view at the top was absolutely stunning.
Back to our hotel room to recover with a cup of tea and some Siena panforte. Later we recovered some more with wine before finding another fabulous little trattoria for dinner.