Panforte di Siena sweet of almonds, candied fruit, honey and spices pressed into a disc
Almonds, candied fruit, flour, honey and spices pressed into a low disc: Siena's panforte has a recipe documented since 1205.
Read more →The main square is paved on a slope and carries the name of the Vecchietta, the Sienese painter Lorenzo di Pietro, who was however not born here: it was believed until 1970, then the documents said otherwise, and the village kept the dedication all the same. The town hall looks onto the square, and at its centre stands a travertine well of the sixteenth century.
Above Rocca d'Orcia rises the Rocca di Tentennano: the Salimbeni made it the base of their revolt against Siena, which took it back in 1408; it was stormed twice, and both times through the treachery of those defending it. The municipality of Rocca d'Orcia was merged into Castiglione in 1777. The parish church of Saints Stephen and Degna holds two Madonnas, one by Simone Martini and one by Pietro Lorenzetti.
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Outside Castiglione d'Orcia, but an easy day trip away.
Palazzo Ducale e Galleria Nazionale delle Marche 📍 Urbino · 9.3 km Federico's studiolo, 3.60 by 3.35 metres of inlay, and Piero della Francesca's Flagellation. Duomo di Urbino 📍 Urbino · 9.2 km The cathedral rebuilt by Valadier after the earthquakes, beside Federico da Montefeltro's Ducal Palace. Casa Santi 📍 Urbino · 9.0 km The house where Raphael was born in 1483, his father's workshop on the ground floor. Oratorio di San Giovanni Battista e Sant'Antonio abate 📍 Urbino · 9.2 km Urbino's oratory with the Salimbeni frescoes, a late gothic masterpiece. pieve di San Salvatore 📍 Rimini · 21 km Pieve di San Salvatore in Rimini, a Romanesque church on an ancient temple, with a plaque from 1318. Villa Caprile 📍 Pesaro · 23 km Seventeenth-century Baroque villa above Pesaro with an Italian garden and water games still working.