Orto dei Pecci - Via del Sole, Siena - Chiesa di Sant'Agostino

Heading down the Via del Sole in Siena and going down to check out the park that is the Orto dei Pecci. We wasn't sure if it was a public park but it was.

Orto dei Pecci a look down at the parkland, was wondering at the time how to get down there?

Orto de' Pecci

A green space where you can take a break in the heart of Siena

The Orto de' Pecci is located in the centre of Siena and is a little slice of countryside only a few hundred metres from piazza del Campo. It is an emerald with a long, fascinating history that is unknown to even many Sienese: a piece of the city inhabited and then destroyed by the plague in the 14th century, it was crossed by condemned prisoners as they passed through the Porta Giustizia on their way to judgement. In the past, it was the property of the Psychiatric Hospital, and recovered patients would cultivate the fields and the orchards for their basic needs of fruit, vegetables and farm animals.

Today the garden is managed by the social cooperative La Prosposta and is an ideal space for everyone, whether you want to relax a bit while visiting the town, or discover a unique place with a reconstruction of an old, urban, medieval orchard. It is also perfect for families with children who need a bit of break in the greenery.

The Orto de' Pecci is also involved in the circuit of educational farms around the Province of Siena. Even the youngest can get to know the countryside and make contact with the 'animal village', while older children, thanks to both the medieval orchard and the organic orchard, can learn about the differences between cultivation techniques of the past and those of today.

Chiesa di Sant'Agostino

Chiesa di Sant'Agostino is a Roman Catholic church in Siena, region of Tuscany, Italy.

The construction of the church and its associated convent began in 1258 and lasted for more than fifty years. Other renovations and reconstructions were carried out in the following centuries. The church had a major fire in 1747. A few years after this fire, the interior was redesigned by Luigi Vanvitelli, and he maintained the large altars in polychrome marble from the 16th and 17th centuries. The stucco statues in the nave and in the transept date from the Vanvitelli renovation. The portico was constructed in the early 19th century by Agostino Fantastici. The church is home to a large number of artworks, including:

Baptism of Constantine by Francesco Vanni
Trinity and Saints altarpiece by Pietro Sorri
Funerary monument of Agostino Chigi (1631)
Birth of the Virginand Nativity in chapel on Right by Francesco di Giorgio Martini and his workshop
Path to the Calvary by Ventura Salimbeni
The Temptation of St Anthony by Rutilio Manetti
Bichi Chapel
Frescoes by Francesco di Giorgio and Luca Signorelli (recently found)
Altarpiece of San Cristoforo by Niccolo Franchini
Cappella Piccolomini
Enthroned Madonna with child and saints by Ambrogio Lorenzetti
Piccolomini altar in polychrome marble (1596), which houses anAdoration of the Magi by Il Sodoma and a Crucifixion by Perugino
Funerary monument to Pope Pius II (1850)

The church was adjacent to the Collegio Tolomei, Siena with neoclassical portico by Agostino Fantastici.

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Taken in: Italia / Toscana / Siena (show map)

Taken on: June 29, 2018

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