Salimbeni Square and Salimbeni Palace

Salimbeni Square and Salimbeni Palace

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Salimbeni Square and Salimbeni Palace

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Location: Siena, Tuscany, Italy

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March 30, 2017

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Rocca Salimbeni, or Salimbeni Palace, a historic building in the center of Siena, is located in the square Salimbeni, bordered by the fashionable Via dei Banchi di Sopra.
The building …

Ciclosofista

April 29, 2019

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The statue in the center of Salimbeni square depicts Sallustio Bandini, an important clergyman, politician and man of culture who lived in Siena at the turn of the 1600s and 1700s.
He belonged to the ancient and authoritative Bandini family of Siena, related to another great family, the Piccolomini that had given birth to some of the most illustrious Popes of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (Pius II, Pius III and Paul III) .
The monument was made by the sculptor Tito Sarrocchi in the 1800s.

Ceciel

September 16, 2020

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