On the other side of the Chianti countryside from Florence is Siena, a Tuscan town rife with tradition and mood. Siena is best known as the site of the Palio. This twice-yearly, bareback horserace is held in the central Piazza del Campo, the heart of this UNESCO city. The Palio is a race ...

Inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2004, the hills, valleys, and trees of the Val d’Orcia “exemplify the beauty of well-managed Renaissance agricultural landscapes.”

An Extra Palio - Palio Straordinario - will be run in Siena on 20 October 2018.

How do you spend one year in Italy? Here's a month-by-month, personal account of my first year living and traveling in Italy.

Inspiration always seems to find me when I'm not looking and that is exactly what happened as I settled in to watch a few minutes of television last night. Lucky for me, I clicked over to Kenny Mayne's Wider World of Sports, a show on ESPN that puts sports into a cultural context. One of the ...

Did know that you can get honorary citizenship from the Terre di Siena (Siena's provincial tourism board)? Citizenship entails signing a Sustainable Tourism charter. Here's what the charter lists as an honorary citizen's privileges: Receive full information about local activities in the ...