Siena, Italy: Grand Gothic Cathedral

More info about travel to Siena: http://www.ricksteves.com/europe/italy/siena Siena’s 13th-century Gothic cathedral, with its striped tower, is dedicated to the Virgin Mary and covered with art. A highlight is the church’s Piccolomini Library: Brilliantly frescoed, it captures the exuberance and optimistic spirit of the 1400s, an age of humanism when the Renaissance was born.

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