Piazza Del Campo, Siena, Tuscany. \u00a9 2012, Chris Yates<\/figcaption><\/figure>The campo is built in fishbone-patterned red brick divided by ten lines of stone which divide the piazza into nine sections, radiating from the mouth of the central water drain at the lowest point. The number of divisions represents the nine-man council that governed Siena at the height of its power in the 14th Century. It’s the centre of life in Siena, not only beautiful but vibrant and lively. It’s lined with bars, restaurants and pizzerias, people gather in the Campo, sitting in groups, studying, or talking, reading. There’s lots of room, even on a busy day, to find your own piece of the Campo and just do nothing except soak up the Campo.<\/p>\nIt’s a wonderful atmosphere, and I’ve often said that at 5 o’clock on a summer’s day evening there is nowhere I would rather be than sat in the Piazza del Campo. Not watching the world go by, necessarily. Just letting it go by while I sit in the Campo. <\/p>\n
The Palazzo Pubblico is lovely, with its iconic Torre del Mangia, and the Duomo is stunning, but my favourite thing to do in Siena is just to sit in the Campo. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The second in a series of ‘Reasons to visit …’ the places I’ve chosen for our bike tours. In our brochure, or on our website, I try to tell you why I think you will enjoy cycling in Tuscany. This is my chance to explain the three things that I enjoy the most, my personal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-the-business-of-running-a-travel-company"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":6}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechaingang.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3363"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechaingang.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechaingang.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechaingang.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechaingang.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thechaingang.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechaingang.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechaingang.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechaingang.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}