Province of Siena - Tuscany - Italy

Pienza is a small town of the Sienese, and it’s a rare example of Renaissance town planning. Pienza is defined the "ideal town", the "utopia town", and it represents nowadays one of the most concrete method construction through which in Renaissance age they tried to realise a model of life and an ideal government on earth, working out an idea of town able to give concrete answers to the desire of civil, pacific and laborious coexistence between man. It was the "utopia of civitas" vainly pursued by ancient time men.

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