Links -- to other Websites ...suggestions are welcome, at my Views from Here Blog
Pienza to start with....
The Pienza Comune official site : www.comune.pienza.siena.it
And the admirable ProLoco Pienza volunteers' site -- in English and Italian: www.prolocopienza.it
Terrific 360-degree panorama visual tours of the renaissance masterpiece Piazza Pio II, its cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta, and the pope's Palazzo Piccolomini: www.thinklab360.com/en/siena-virtual-tour/pienza-360.html
The extraordinary Pienza museum with its papal treasures -- not to be missed : www.museisenesi.org/media/museo-diocesano
Useful tourist information -- in English and Italian : www.ufficioturisticodipienza.it
and in Italian but accessible : www.pienza.info and www.portalepienza.it
Writings on Pienza -- in Italian but growing : www.centrostudipientini.it
Florence to start with....
The tourist office, of course -- in Italian, English and Spanish: www.firenzeturismo.it
First class site on the marvellous cathedral, Santa Maria del Fiore, its museum, the famous baptistery, campanile, and more: www.operaduomo.firenze.it
'Window on the Renaissance' -- the 'mediateca' of the Palazzo Medici : http://www.palazzo-medici.it/mediateca/en/index.php
A Sixteenth Century Gazetteer of Florence, on-line: www.stg.brown.edu/projects/florentine_gazetteer
Explore the Uffizi through the Google Art Project: www.googleartproject.com/museums/uffizi
Pienza to start with....
The Pienza Comune official site : www.comune.pienza.siena.it
And the admirable ProLoco Pienza volunteers' site -- in English and Italian: www.prolocopienza.it
Terrific 360-degree panorama visual tours of the renaissance masterpiece Piazza Pio II, its cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta, and the pope's Palazzo Piccolomini: www.thinklab360.com/en/siena-virtual-tour/pienza-360.html
The extraordinary Pienza museum with its papal treasures -- not to be missed : www.museisenesi.org/media/museo-diocesano
Useful tourist information -- in English and Italian : www.ufficioturisticodipienza.it
and in Italian but accessible : www.pienza.info and www.portalepienza.it
Writings on Pienza -- in Italian but growing : www.centrostudipientini.it
Florence to start with....
The tourist office, of course -- in Italian, English and Spanish: www.firenzeturismo.it
First class site on the marvellous cathedral, Santa Maria del Fiore, its museum, the famous baptistery, campanile, and more: www.operaduomo.firenze.it
'Window on the Renaissance' -- the 'mediateca' of the Palazzo Medici : http://www.palazzo-medici.it/mediateca/en/index.php
A Sixteenth Century Gazetteer of Florence, on-line: www.stg.brown.edu/projects/florentine_gazetteer
Explore the Uffizi through the Google Art Project: www.googleartproject.com/museums/uffizi
