Best Renaissance Buildings in Siena, Italy

Palazzo Celsi Pollini

The Palazzo, once also called the Palazzo del Vescovo, is a Renaissance style
urban palace in Siena, Italy. It is located on Pian dei Mantellini #39-41, at the
corner with Via San Quirico. A 19th-century source refers to the house as Casa
Campioni. The main facade faces the campanile of San Niccolò del Carmine.

The polygonal palace built into the slope of the hill was built in 1525 using designs
by Baldassarre Peruzzi. It was refurbished over the centuries. The interiors
conserve frescoes attributed to the studio of Bartolomeo Neroni, also called il
"Riccio", such as a Susanna and the Elders and The Continence of Scipio. The
Celsi family produced the 16th-century Sienese ambassador Mino Celsi who fled
to Switzerland due to accusations of heresy.

The palace today is a private residence.

Church of San Giuseppe

San Giuseppe is a Roman Catholic church in Siena, Tuscany, Italy.

The church was commissioned by the contrada dell'Onda and begun in 1521.
Construction continued for the whole century.

The façade, finished in 1653, is mostly in brickwork, with two superimposed

orders divided by pilaster strips. The interior is on the Greek Cross plan,
surmounted by an octagonal dome with a lantern. Decoration is attributed to the
Nasini family. The crypt, a suggestive 16th century hall, contains the contrada's
museum.

Palazzo San Galgano

The Palazzo is a Renaissance style urban palace located on via Roma number 47,
in Terzo Camollia of the city of Siena, region of Tuscany, Italy. The palace is
around the corner from the church of San Raimondo.
The palace was commissioned in 1474 by the Giovanni di Niccolò, abbot of the
Abbey of San Galgano; the designs were by Giuliano da Maiano, who also
designed the Sienese Palazzo Spannochi.

In the 16th-century, the palace underwent restructuring, when it housed the

Congregation of the Abbandonate, and then of the Virgin del Soccorso. The
courtyard portico dates from 1600, and the holy stairs and Chigi chapel date from
1710. The palace in 2015 houses the Department of Historical Sciences and
Cultural Goods of the University of Siena.

The palace, has six ground floor arches made from rusticated stone, now mostly
walled. The second floor retains the mullioned windows.

Castello di Belcaro

The Castello is a Renaissance villa built at the site of a Castle once belonging to
the Republic of Siena in Tuscany. It is located some 5.5 kilometers southwest of
the Siena city gate of Porta San Marco, on the direction towards Grosseto, it is
beyond a former benedictine monastery and church of Sant'Eugenio. The address is
strada di Terrenzano e Belcaro #32.

The villa was commissioned in 1525 by the banker Crescenzo Turamini, to be built
over the ruins of the castle at Belcaro. The architect is attributed to either or both
Giorgio di Giovanniand/or Baldassare Peruzzi.

In 1554 the site was occupied by the besieging forces of Cosimo di Medici, as a
stone inscription on the walls recalls, and his son Giangiacomo dei Medici
reinstated the site as a fortress. In the 19th century, the Camaiori family
refurbished the villa in a neo-Renaissance style, with gardens and courtyards, with
the designs of Serafino Belli and Giuseppe Partini. The grounds have a private
chapel with frescoes, all enclosed by fortress walls.