|| Siena

Maybe you are familiar with the famous duo, Romulus and Remus? Roman mythology has it that these guys founded Rome. These twins are found through out Rome in sculptures, text, and drawings, but if you travel a bit north to Siena, you will find the state of the wolf feeding these two twins everywhere inside the city walls. Apparently, the sons of Romulus and Remus, Senio and Ascanio, founded the tuscan city of Siena. If anyone is into studying ancient rome, maybe you know what I am talk about.

When you walk into the city center you'll find the Duomo. This Duomo  is breathtaking, especially at first glance. I always find myself day dreaming of the years back when these huge works of art were in process of building. How did they accomplish so many daunting tasks?? This Duomo is a Gothic example of tuscan architecture. Build just as the black plague spread like wildfire, the Duomo was not actually finished according to original plans. There was an attempting to build a much larger church. Because of the plague in 1348 - the plans had to be reworked - making the transept of the origional design the nave of the duomo. If you don't know what im talking about, the nave is what you walk down to get to the altar. This is longest section of the cross-shapped floor plan. The transept is what crosses parallel to the nave - where the altar sits in the middle of the cross section. So if you can visualize this in your head... this duomo was meant to be HUGE.
The facade is like i said, absolutely breathtaking. every inch is detailed. Included on the facade is the she-wolf sculpture i had mentioned earlier. The reference to the founding of Siena. That reflief is one of many carved from the marble found on the facade.

When you walk inside its magical. The design of the floors really stole my heart away.

We got the chance to climb this tiny stair case, and to our surprise this was our view! Hello Siena