#Siena

2025-12-29

📰 Licenziato per il «test del carrello» dalla Pam, il 62enne Fabio Giomi reintegrato: «Un bel regalo di Natale». La sentenza del tribunale di Siena

#️⃣ #ECONOMIALAVORO #Inchieste #Lavoroeimpresa #Licenziamenti #Natale #Siena #Supermercati #Toscana #OpenOnline #TheLabSocial #News #Notizie #Italia

🔗 open.online/2025/12/29/test-ca

2025-12-23

Oggi andiamo in un bellissimo museo a cielo aperto, in mezzo nella natura e nei boschi vicino a Siena, dove ad accoglierci troveremo 250 sculture in pietra. Un’avventura magica e unica. Siamo a Selva di sogno, il parco di sculture dell’artista Deva Manfredo. #devamanfredo #opereinpietra #siena #stoneart

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I progetti di Claire Tabouret per le nuove vetrate di Notre-Dame saranno esposti a Parigi. Le vetrate, commissionate dal Ministero della Cultura francese dopo il devastante incendio del 2019, hanno scatenato un dibattito sulla conservazione storica. I progetti per sei controverse nuove vetrate per la Cattedrale di Notre-Dame a Parigi sono stati esposti in una nuova mostra al Grand Palais. #arte #IprogettidiClaireTabouret #sagrafica #grafica #enkey #carbonia #sardegna #sardinia
2025-12-23
The magnificent Torre del Mangia pierces the clouds, watching over the timeless rooftops of Siena. A perfect Tuscan panorama! 🏰☁️

📸 on May 3, 2024 with Sony α7R IV.
(44mm, ƒ/7.1, 1/640s, ISO 100)

#TorreDelMangia #Siena #Tuscany #Italy
The magnificent Torre del Mangia pierces the clouds, watching over the timeless rooftops of Siena. A perfect Tuscan panorama! 🏰☁️
Daniele Verducci 🧉penguin86@social.ichibi.eu
2025-12-19
Yesterday going back home by #motorcycle was... difficult. There was a very dense #fog. I could ride on the #highway, albeit at slow speeds, using the center line and the road side #reflectors to keep the bike on the road, but once left the highway I was completely lost! The smaller #country #roads here have no reflectors and no center/lateral lines, only a strip of tarmac in the nature. I saw literally NOTHING. I was a little scared. I went back and very slowly found my way back to the highway and then took that to #Florence and then to #Siena. This way I doubled the kilometers, but I could get home using almost only highways. It was a longer ride than expected, after a day of work at the office, and I was home at 2 AM, exhausted. Took this photo and got to bed.
...it was nice to ride my #bike after so much time, anyway!

#biker #bikers #motorbike #hiviz #winter #winterriding
Edward Championedwardchampion
2025-12-16

Some thoughts on the latest Siena NY poll, which demonstrates robust BIPARTISAN support for universal childcare and free buses. If Hochul shifts her policy to tax the rich to pay for this, this could be an effective working model for other states and cities to follow.

youtube.com/shorts/UP11nmdVGJA

2025-12-08

Siena: Festa dei Tabernacoli 2025, vince il Bruco

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2025-12-05

#radicondoli, piccolo e grazioso borgo adagiato sulla vetta di una collina circondata da rigogliose valli, a due passi dal centro geotermico di #larderello, #toscana #siena @societa

2025-12-02
The never-ending staircase from the station to Siena's old town is just an anticipation of a place that seems to look up to heaven. Not content with the astonishing views from its privileged spot on the top of a hill, the Cathedral tower rivals the civil emblem of Piazza del Campo, which dominates the square that some days a year becomes the most epic horse racing stadium (Il Palio). Tradition really matters here, and we got a real taste of it at the feast of a Contrada (one of the neighborhoods that competes for the city's pride at the Palio) and by happening upon a drumming parade that made our room quake. Not bad for a weekend stopover from our Tuscany trip.

#Siena #Toscana #Tuscany #Italia #italy #architecture #heritage #urbanphotography #urban #urbanspace
blueHOMES AG Europa Immobilienbluehomes
2025-12-02

farm between and

Historic buildings from the late 19th 🏰

It includes rooms for meals, especially , with two large halls 👰 🤵‍

building, which also serves as a and area, ,
3 further on the second floor

2.5 hectares of
groves 🫒
and
Two and a reserve

Swimming

Rooms: 20
Plot: 73ha
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The Japan Timesthejapantimes
2025-11-26

While peace is often viewed merely as the absence of war, it has its own content and mechanics, which are perpetuated by ordinary people. japantimes.co.jp/commentary/20

blueHOMES AG Europa Immobilienbluehomes
2025-11-14

hotel in 👑

This 18th house and hospitable vacation village is for
Borgo and with a total of 39 and 43

Each room and suite is equipped with a , and 🛰️

pool 🏊‍♀️

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Rooms: 32
Living space: 2.650m²
Plot: 2.800m²
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2025-11-13

Siena Awards Festival 2025 | Un sabato intero dedicato alla fotografia del Siena Awards, passeggiando per vicoli, piazze e i luoghi storici del centro storico di Siena
#fotografia #Siena #sienawards

open.substack.com/pub/giovanni

Locandina del Siena Awards Festival 2025
World of Fun and Travelworldoffunandtravel@tilvids.com
2020-08-28

Siena | Italy | The City of Il Palio

tilvids.com/w/4vrmsYZNhrV5AKD2

2025-11-07

🕊 𝗦𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗮 𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗲 𝗼𝗺𝗮𝗴𝗴𝗶𝗼 𝗮𝗹 𝗩𝗲𝗰𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗮❟ 𝗺𝗮𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗼 𝗱𝗲𝗹 𝗥𝗶𝗻𝗮𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗼❟ 𝗰𝗼𝗻 𝗱𝘂𝗲 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶:
📍 nuovo allestimento al #SantaMariadellaScala
📜 mostra “Vecchietta. Percorso di carte” all’#ArchiviodiStato

➡️ Leggi l’articolo completo su Storie Archeostorie: wp.me/p7tSpZ-aXC

#Siena #Rinascimento #arteitaliana #mostre #Biccherne #Vecchietta #ArchiviodiStatodiSiena #SantaMariadellaScala

@siena_archiviodistato | @santamariadellascala

storiearcheostorie.com/2025/11

2025-11-03
A bird's-eye view of a masterpiece! The iconic black-and-white striped tower and dome of the Siena Cathedral are simply stunning. 🦓⛪️

📸 on May 3, 2024 with Sony α7R IV.
(28mm, ƒ/9, 1/160s, ISO 100)

#SienaCathedral #Duomo #Siena #Italy
A bird's-eye view of a masterpiece! The iconic black-and-white striped tower and dome of the Siena Cathedral are simply stunning. 🦓⛪️

Catherine of Siena

Her birth name is: Caterina di Jacopo di Benincasa. She lived from March 25, 1347 to April 29, 2380, making her 33 years old when she passed away. She was an Italian mystics & pious laywoman who took part in papal & Italian politics through sizable letter-writing & advocacy. She was canonized in 1461. She’s revered as a saint & a Doctor of the Church because of her considerable theological authorship.

She was born & raised in Siena. At an early age, she wanted to devote herself to God. Her parents were against this. Her parents wanted her to marry. She ends up cutting her hair. She resisted any attempts to conform.

Her dad relents, eventually. He gives her a room dedicated to prayer & contemplation. She developed the spiritual practice of building an inner cell in her mind. This is a place of constant prayer from which she could never flee. This would become a core tenet of her mystical teaching.

She joined the Mantellates at 18. This was/is a group of pious laywomen informally devoted to Dominican spiritually. Later on, these types of urban pious groups would be formalized as the Third Order of the Dominicans. This wasn’t until after Catherine’s passing. She lived in near solitude initially.

Shortly after joining the Mantellate, Catherine started fasting for longer periods. But she found it challenging. While tending to a woman with cancerous breast sores, she was disgusted. Intending to overcome her disgust, she gathered the sore pus into a ladle & drank it all. (Yep, yep. You read that right.)

That night, she was visited by Jesus who invited her to drink the blood gushing out of his pierced side. It was with this visitation that her stomach “no longer had need of food and no longer could digest.”

Around the age of 21, following an experience she described as a “Mystical Marriage” with Christ. She received a divine command to leave her solitary life & dedicate her life to public ministry. She started serving the sick & poor in the hospital, particularly during the Black Death. Her wedding ring wasn’t the traditional gold band that nuns wear after they become nuns. Catherine’s wedding ring was the Holy Prepuce, or Jesus’ foreskin. (Yes, you read that correctly.)

Her influence with Pope Gregory XI played a role in his 1376 decision to leave Avignon for Rome. The Pope sent Catherine to negotiate peace with the Florentine Republic. After Gregory XI (March 1378) & the end of peace (July 1378), she went home to Siena. The Great Schism of the West led Catherine to go to Rome with the Pope.

She sent many letters to princes & cardinals to encourage obedience to Pope Urban VI & defend what she calls the “vessel of the Church.” She passed away on April 29, 1380 after she was weary by fastidious fasting. Urban VI celebrated her funeral & burial in the Basilica of Santa Maria sopra Minerva in Rome. This is 1 of the major churches of the Order of Preachers in Rome.

The people of Siena wanted to have Catherine’s body after she passed away. A story is told of a miracle where they were partially successful. They knew they couldn’t smuggle her whole body out of Rome. They decided to take only her head, which they put in a bag. When they were stopped by the Roman guards, they prayed to Catherine to help them. They were confident she (Catherine) would want her body (or at least part of it) in Siena. When they opened the bag to show the guards, it appeared to not have her (Catherine’s) head but it was full of roses.

Devotion around Catherine of Siena developed rapidly after her passing. Pope Pius II canonized her in 1461. She was declared a patron saint of Rome in 1866 by Pope Pius IX. She was only the 2nd woman to be made a Doctor of the Church, on October 4, 1970 by Pope Paul VI. This was only days after Teresa of Avila. In 1939, Pope Pius XII named her joint patron saint of Italy, along with St. Francis of Assisi. In 1999, Pope John Paul II proclaimed her a patron saint of Europe. Along with Teresa Benedicta of the Cross & Bridget of Sweden. She’s also the patroness of the historically Catholic American sorority, Theta Phi Alpha.

There are 3 main churches in honor of Catherine of Siena:

  • Santa Maria sopra Minerva in Rome. This is where her body is kept. This church gets its name from that the 1st Christian Church structure on the site was directly over (or Italian sopra) the ruins or foundations of a temple dedicated to the Egyptian deity Isis. This had been mistakenly thought to be the temple of Minerva. Possibly due to interpretatio romana, meaning that the ancient Greeks had a tendency to identify foreign gods with their own gods.
  • Basilica of San Domenico, in Siena. This is where her incorrupt head is. This incorrupt head doesn’t look like the incorruptible bodies of other saints.
  • Shrine of St. Catherine, in Siena. This is a complex of religious buildings built around Catherine’s birthplace.
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