This was in a piazza near the start of our Siena tour. The guys with the flags were getting ready to do some flag waving/tossing.
The drummers accompanying the Flag wavers. The outfits represent the city ward they are representing. There are seventeen city wards.
The flag wavers in action.
View of the Siena Duomo.
One of the little side piazzas. I was more interested in the buildings than in the bloke on the pedestal.
Building facade.
Little statues of the she-wolf suckling Romulus and Remus are all over the place. Again, I was more interested in the building behind.
Church facade.
Interesting window treatment.
Extravagantly adorned building frontage with some excellent ceiling treatment showing.
The tower and frontage of the civic building which also houses the Museo Civico. A lot of the clocks one sees in old buildings like this do not have minute hands because they were unimportant at the time the clocks were installed. It was enough to know the hour of the day and be able to guess at the size of the interval to the next/previous hour. This building stands on one side of the Piazza del Campo which is where the Palio (horse race) is run twice a year.
