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People standing in a courtyard with stone buildings and columns. 1
Wrought Iron Biagiotti- Pienza 2
A rural landscape with a small church, a stone building, and rolling hills in the background. 3
Private Guided Tour of Pienza on Foot 4
Via del Pienza exit 5

Private Guided Tour of Pienza on Foot

By Sara Mammana
8.8 out of 10
Excellent
Free cancellation available
Price is £178 per traveller* *Get a lower price by selecting multiple travellers
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Features

  • Free cancellation available
  • 3h
  • Mobile voucher
  • Instant confirmation
  • Multiple languages

Overview

Born from a “dream of love and an idea of beauty”, Pienza, the ideal city of the Italian Renaissance, is still today an intact testimony of an illustrious architectural project, commissioned by Pope Pius II Piccolomini and made concrete by the great Florentine architect Bernardo Rossellino.

Built in a very limited period of time (1459-1462), the city of Pio is the result of a single master plan marked, by the will of the great humanist pope who gave it the name, by design criteria of harmony and aesthetic perfection still today. clearly visible in the small urban centre that was Corsignano in the Middle Ages.

Activity location

  • Piazza Pio II
    • Piazza Pio II,
    • Pienza, Italy

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • Piazza Dante Alighieri
    • Piazza Dante Alighieri
    • 53026, Pienza, Toscana, Italy

Multiple meeting/redemption points available, see location information for full list

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Pienza in Multilingual

  • Activity duration is 3 hours3h
    3h
  • Opening hours: Sun 08:30-19:00
  • English

Pottery workshop: Guided tour of the Linda Bai pottery workshop
www.ceramichebai.it
Duration: 20 minutes: Visit to the laboratory located in an ancient mill of the sixteenth century, with a well of the twelfth century and a medieval secret passage.
Thorough visit of Pienza: Tour to discover the ancient Corsignano until its transformation into Pienza, the Ideal City of the Renaissance.
Wrought iron workshop: visit to the artisan forging workshop at the Ferro Battuto Biagiotti company in Pienza: www.biagiottipienza.com
Starting points:
Piazza Dante Alighieri, 53026 Pienza SI, Italy
Via Enzo Mangiavacchi, 53026 Pienza SI, Italy

Price details
£178.35 x 1 Traveller£178.35
Total
Price is £178.35
Until Sat, 18 Jul

What's included, what's not

  • Exclusions
    Private transport
  • Exclusions
    Lunch
  • Exclusions
    Air-conditioned vehicle

Know before you book

    • Wheelchair accessible
    • Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
    • Service animals allowed
    • Public transport options are available nearby
    • Transport options are wheelchair accessible
    • All areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible
    • Suitable for all physical fitness levels
    • In accordance with EU regulations about consumer rights, activities services are not subject to the right of withdrawal. Supplier cancellation policy will apply.
    • This activity is provided by a professional trader (a party acting within their trade, business or profession).

Activity itinerary

Piazza Pio II

  • 15m
A striking example of Renaissance perspective illusionism with an inverted perspective capable of creating an effect of widening the square.

Palazzo Piccolomini

  • 30m
  • Admission ticket not included
Ancient papal residence dating back to 1462

Il Duomo di Pienza

  • 30m
Renaissance cathedral with rare German Gothic interior and marvellous altarpieces from the Sienese fifteenth century

Church of San Francesco

  • 10m
  • Admission ticket not included
Thirteenth-century Gothic church with a very rare fresco cycle from 1380 inside, depicting the biographical events of San Francesco di Asssisi.

Pieve di Corsignano

  • 30m
  • Admission ticket not included
Ancient rural parish church of early Christian origin built on an ancient immersion baptismal font. The main portal offers a peculiar decoration with pagan features from the 9th century AD. The interior shows the baptismal font where the two pontiffs of the Piccolomini family were baptized: Pius II and Pius III and a crypt.

Corso il Rossellino

  • 20m
  • Admission ticket not included
Ancient high street of Pienza dedicated to the architect Bernardo Gambarelli known as Rossellino, architect and designer of Pienza. It shows the main cardinal palaces of the papal city.

Palazzo Borgia Museo Diocesano

  • 45m
  • Admission ticket not included
Amazing museum of medieval, Renaissance and Baroque Tuscan painting and sculpture, built inside the palace of Cardinal Jouffroy

Location

Activity location

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    Piazza Pio II
    • Piazza Pio II,
    • Pienza, Italy

Meeting/Redemption Point

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    Piazza Dante Alighieri
    • Piazza Dante Alighieri
    • 53026, Pienza, Toscana, Italy
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    Via Enzo Mangiavacchi
    • Via Enzo Mangiavacchi
    • 53026, Pienza, Toscana, Italy

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