Top Of The Tower And The World
Top Of The Tower And The World
Yours truly at the top.  Not the best picture in the world but it's the only one I have.

Top Of The Tower And The World
A view of the wonderful countryside of Toscana.  It's a land of endless rolling hills. Pleasing to the eye and when you ride your bike too.  Bike riding in is lots of fun.  If you look to the left of the picture, you can just make out the snow on the Appenines.

Top Of The Tower And The World
Take a look how the entire city is made of red stone.  It's wonderful.  If you get up in the early morning before sunrise, go outside the city walls to the east and watch the sunrise.  If you get it just before and at sunrise the entire city glows likes it's on fire in the rising sun.  Wait a few minutes after sunrise and while it's pretty, it's just kind of red stone.  So if you want the fiery red, get up early.

Top Of The Tower And The World
A nice view of Siena's cathedral.  See the isolated wall to the left of the picture?  That's the wall where this picture was taken.  So getting a look at how big the cathedral is and the size of the incomplete wall, imagine how big the cathedral would have been had they completed it.

In the picture below, you can see the wonderful Tuscan countryside with the Chiesa San Domenico in the center foreground and to the left is the Chiesa di Santa Maria di Provenzano.

Top Of The Tower And The World