Just 28 km from Lucignano, silent in the lonely majesty of Valdorcia, beautiful Pienza rises on one of the hills in the province of Siena.

The result of the enthusiasm of its illustrious citizen Enea Silvio Piccolomini, who became Pope Pious II, it is the symbol of the realisation of the ideal city yearned for by the humanists.

Bernardo Rossellino was the architect who, in four years, transformed it from a modest village (called Corsignano) into the city that is today: a tourist destination.

Since 1996 Pienza has been part of the UNESCO world heritage, because of the equilibrium of its form and the harmony of its characteristic proportions.

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